Image: fotologic via flickr Recycling, it turns out, is not reserved for inanimate objects. An increasingly popular Chesapeake Bay program is sending oyster shells collected from restaurants, which save the shells from customers’ meals, back into the bay, where they form homes for new oysters. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Saving the Oyster, and the Bay: Shell Recycling Program Replenishes Endangered Oyster Population
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The village mosque in Büyükeceli is now powered by solar panels. Photo: Alper Tunga Çatal for Greenpeace . When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Abigail Batchelder via flickr Barely a week after the U.S. Senate failed, because of industry influence, to ban BPA in baby bottles and limit its use in other children’s products, the EU passed a very similar ban that will go into effect next year…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles
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photo via Smoke Free Texas I sat outside a Starbucks in Houston, Texas the other day, trying to enjoy my soy latte but I was surrounded by smokers. I didn’t ask them to stop–it was a smoking-allowed area–but perhaps I should have anyway, and I could have told them about a new study, published yesterday in The Lancet, which finds that secondhand smoking kills more than 600,000 lives each year around the world…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Secondhand Smoke Kills More Than 600,000 A Year
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Photo: SunEdison For billions of years the sun has been shining on a field in Rovigo, Italty — but, thanks to a new PV solar farm built on that spot, that energy will now be put to some good use. Just nine short months after being given the green-light from the government, the US based SunEdison has officially inaugurated Europe’s largest single-site solar farm, producing enough clean-energy to power around 17,000 homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Europe’s Largest PV Solar Farm Opens in Italy
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Image: Nissan Tactile Feedback FTW Nissan’s ECO Pedal is a great idea. We’ve known for a while that giving drivers some feedback on their fuel consumption helps them drive more efficiently (and more sanely!). The most obvious example is the LCD screen in the Toyota Prius, but there are other ways of providing that feedback. Ford has an instrument cluster that grows leaves to ‘reward’ you for effici… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan is Licensing Fuel-Saving ECO Pedal to Other Automakers
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Photo: Haldini , Flickr, CC So it’s not exactly news: Scientists have known for years that China’s greenhouse gas emissions have surpassed that of the United States . But it’s telling that China, typically very guarded about pollution issues and climate impacts, has openly admitted as much. Here’s what China’s chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, told a news conference in Beijing, just days before he’s set to travel to the next round of international talks on glo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Credit and more images: gaborrieger TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! I have been spending a lot of time over at Jovoto , looking at the amazing entries. I have bee… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Small New York Apartment to Receive Radical Revamp with LifeEdited Competition (Slideshow)
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Image credit: striatic , used under Creative Commons license. Whether it’s brilliant ways to reuse your books , or an easy way to reuse wine corks , TreeHugger has seen plenty of craftsy, DIY examples of reuse as a creative way to greener living. But I’ve been thinking lately that good intentions can lead to bad decisions—more specifically, I’ve been wonde… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When Does Reuse Become Hoarding?
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Photo: Guardian North Sea fishermen throw away almost a million dead and dying fish every year. Most are tossed back because they are too small or the wrong kind or will make the fishing boats over their quota. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall , national treasure, celebrity chef and serious food campaigner was so outraged at this “insane waste” that he has started a campaign, Fish Fight, to get this practice banned. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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North Sea Fisheries Throw Away Half Their Catch
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