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Armoire Dressed In Fallen Birch Skin: Sawkille Co.

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Photo: Chris Kendall via The New York Times Gleaming like arboreal wayfinders on a dark night, birches are trees that definitely stand out from the forest crowd. Their bark was traditionally used as paper and has medicinal properties, so it’s not too far a stretch to see them utilized in a decorative sense too, like in this gorgeous birch-skinned armoire by Rhinebeck, NY-based furniture designers Sawkille Co…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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National Conservation Lands Face Threat from Vandals and Looters

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Canyons of the Ancients. Image Credit: Bureau of Land Management Southwest Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients is home to the greatest known concentration of archaeological sites in the United States. However, though it is protected as part of the National Conservation Lands , this ancient home of the Anasazi people is in trouble, and it’s not alone. Overseen by the Conservation Lands Foundation , the Na… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Was Obama’s Choice to Pass on Climate a "Blunder of Historic Proportions"?

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Photo via NY Mag Earlier in the week, I looked at a hypothetical scenario laid out by columnist David Brooks in which he imagined Obama and the Democrats had gone forward with an energy bill instead of doing health care reform. Joe Romm of Climate Progress had looked at the same scenario, and commented in the end that “”Future ge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around

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We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we’ve built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal

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Retroreflector Tie A Bright Entry in Seoul Cycle Design Competition

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Photo via Designboom The Retroreflector Tie by Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell is a somewhat subtle fashion statement for the safety-minded cyclist. And it is one of thousands of entries in Designboom’s Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010. For this tie, the designers wanted to add something useful to the options on store shelves for reflective clothing for cyclists — something that was more than just functional. It’s a statement many designers are making in a comp… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Climate Moms" Juggle Career, Kids and the Threat of Catastrophe

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Image credit: DorkyMom I’ve asked before why, with all the potential misery and danger in the world, do eco-activists still have children . But then I’ve also declared that disasterbation turns you blind , and I’ve even started out on my own path to being a new green dad . There’s no doubt, however, that knowing what we know about cli… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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President of Ford Canada Says "We Need Higher Fuel Prices"

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The Globe and Mail notes that a Detroit Electric car cost $ 2,600 and had a range of 100 miles, while a Model T cost $ 650 and had a range of 180 miles; even 95 years ago, electric vehicles were a tough sell. Here is a surprise, coming from David Mondragon, the President of Ford Canada: It’s hard to believe that I’m going to say this, but we need higher fuel prices. He says the higher prices are needed to entice consumers to buy smaller cars like the Fiesta and encourage the market for electric cars. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Week in Animal Photos: Curious Bugs, Bomb-Sniffing Rats and More (Slideshow)

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Photo via The Daily Mail What’s going on in the animal world this week? From bugs with personalities and 50,000 minks set free in Greece to baby pandas, baby rhinos, and a newly-discovered chameleon, find out in our Week in Animal Photos slideshow. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: BP’s Deepwater Horizon Accident Report Disperses Blame, Arsenic Found in Children’s Urine, and More (Slideshow)

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On Wednesday, BP released it’s report on the events leading up to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent record-breaking oil spill. As was expected, BP attempts to spread blame across all the companies involved. In other green news this week, the two Greenpeace activists arrested over two years ago for stealing whale meat from a shipping depot is over, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were given one-year jail terms, suspended, for theft and trespassing; Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada was released this week showing that annual bir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could We Still Get a National Renewable Energy Standard This Year?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Red, Green, and Blue What just a year ago seemed to be a weak alternative or a mere support beam to good carbon-reducing energy policy is now a pie-in-the-sky longshot. Pricing carbon emissions was the bedrock of the climate bill that passed the House of Representatives last year, and the Renewable Energy Standard that required utilities to get a percentage of their energy from clean sources was a secondary (though still important) complement. After the Senate climate bil… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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