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Podcars Almost Ready To Roll in London

image via ultraprt I have to be very careful when writing about Pod Cars; the pod people are dedicated and vocal and once gave me a prize for writing fishwrap . I have previously called them a solution in search of a problem, but Jim Witkin at the New York Times thinks that they might make se… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: The US at a Climate Tipping Point? (Video)

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Bicycle – The Freedom Machine

(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of us. It punctuates that time in our lives when we were enveloped by a sense of unbridled freedom. We were no longer dependent on our parents to shuttle us around the place. We weren’t constrained by bus or train timetables. We could… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Wine In Old Bottles: The Greenest Way To Drink

Images via Inhabitat Whenever there is a discussion about wine packaging, TreeHugger comes down on the side of local and refillable. We return often to TreeHugger Emeritus Ruben Anderson’s article in the Tyee: New Wine in Old Bottles , where he notes that in France, wine bottles are refilled an average of eight times. Now they even have computerized wine dispensers where you can fill your own jugs with vin de table for about two bucks a litre…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gorgeous Garage Conversion By Shed Architects

The appropriately named SHED Architecture and Design has done a lovely garage conversion into a 300 square foot studio apartment in a Seattle backyard…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gypsy Caravan Kicks off London Design Festival

All images by B. Alter London Design Festival 2010 is starting this week. TreeHuggers Leonora, Petz and yours truly will be pounding the streets to find the newest, hottest, chic-est and best design. It’s an eclectic mix, including an anti-design festival and a Transcendental Gypsy Caravan of Creativity . That’s a gypsy caravan travelling the streets of London filled with treasures by artists, designers, fu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York Green Fashion Week: Auralis Merges Caribbean Style with Urban Functionality for Spring 2011 (Slideshow)

Auralis Spring 2011 at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Rafi Diaz Auralis showcased “urban tropical” style in their Spring 2011 runway show at The GreenShows during New York Fashion Week last Monday night. Designer Auralis Herrero splits her time between her studio in Brooklyn, New York and her nati… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TMZ’s Celeb Look-Alike Contest — Final 5!

Filed under: Contest , Photo Galleries The almost famous faces have been narrowed down to five in our Celebrity Look-Alike Contest — and now it’s up to you to decide which picture will get the $250 prize and some gifts from TMZ! ** CLICK HERE for contest rules and regulations!**

Gulf Spill Reservoir Still Worth $3.5 Billion, Will Likely be Tapped Again

Image via USA Today Relief Wells May be Later Used for Drilling While we were all quietly celebrating the news that the Macondo well that spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf was finally officially “dead” , there were nagging concerns that nevertheless refused to be silenced. For example, will US policy towards offshore drilling change in any meaningful way? Will the practice be safer? Or, more symbo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Black Carbon Soot’s Climate Warming Effect May Be Canceled by Its Increasing Cloud Production

photo: Jose Roberto V Moraes via flickr In the past eighteen months or so there’s been a greater acknowledgment that black carbon soot , from burning fossil fuels and biomass , plays a bigger role in increasing global warming and glacier melting than we had thought. Well, a new paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (hat tip… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Black Carbon Soot’s Climate Warming Effect May Be Canceled by Its Increasing Cloud Production