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Cute Cubs! National Zoo Launches Live Webcam of Week-Old Lion Cubs

Webcam screenshot via National Zoo August 31st was a special day at the National Zoo — four lion cubs were born! It is the first litter to a five-year-old lioness named Shera. But you don’t have to be a visitor at the zoo to check out the tiny newborns. (In fact, even visitors won’t see the cubs until late Fall when they’re old enough to head out into the yards.) The National Zoo has launched a webcam allowing you to look in on the lioness and her cubs. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TED Talk: Rachel Sussman Photographs The World’s Oldest Living Things (Video)

A map of the planet’s oldest living things, via Rachel Sussman What are the oldest living things on the planet? If you’re thinking 200-year-old tortoises, well, those are just whippersnappers compared to the organisms that give Methuselah a run for his money. Rachel Sussman has traveled the planet photographing living creatures that have celebrated at least their 2,000th birthday. She’s found 500,000-year-old actinobacteria in the Siberian permafrost, and a 5,000-year-old bristle cone pine in California. Her photographs are meant to do two things: 1) show us these miracles of life on our planet … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Stylish Watt-Lite Creates An Energy Use Infographic in Real Time (Photos)

All images via the Interactive Institute – www.tii.se “A regular torch shows what is hidden in the dark, the Watt-Lite shows the hidden use of electricity”, this is the essential purpose of a set of three lights created by designers at Stolkholm’s Interactive Institute . The Watt-Lite is a rather inventive form of smart meter that finds a straightforward way of demonstrating how much energy a building is using in the style of real … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Andrew Maynard’s Airdrop House: Just Add Water

Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity always says that the last thing people need after a disaster is another architect’s idea for instant housing, but that hasn’t stopped TreeHugger Best of Green Young Architect Andrew Maynard from looking at the problem of the flooding in Pakistan and writing: Many would suggest, correctly, that what a disaster of this magnitude DOES NOT need is another idealistic architect proposing yet… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lucy Pinder Breasts Are Nuts

I may be wrong, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that this shot is that dudes new Facebook profile picture. Can you blame him? If I had a chance to get my picture taken with busty British babe Lucy Pinder dressed as a hot ass secret agent with her boobs hanging out I would too. I’d finally get to replace that elementary school graduation picture grandma refuses to take off her fridge.

Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Government Too?

Image credit: Conservative Home I’ve always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in direct conflict with any “big government” solutions from the traditional left. This very debate is flourishing right now over in the UK, with the

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Human Activity May Have Boosted Palau Shellfish Size

photo: Wikimedia Commons A new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows there are exceptions to the conventional eco-wisdom that increased human activity always spells harm for animals: Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that the size of one mollusk, that’s been a food source for Pacific Islanders for thousands of years, has increased in size in conjunction with human population growth. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Local’ Cream Travels 340 Miles to End on its Own Doorstep

Image credit: Roddas From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food . Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there’s been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting in on the locavore bandwagon . Heck, we even have

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Creating a Cycling Culture in the World’s Cities

South African cyclist Aldren Muvhambe. Photo by Nic Grobler via Bicycle Portraits . The sad recent news story about a 5-year-old girl killed by a street-cleaning vehicle while riding bikes with her father in the Turkish province of Konya — a city that had previously announced plans for the country’s first bike-sharing program — got me thinking about what it wo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In Milan, 30 Green Designers will Show Spring 2011 Collections at Collective Fashion Week Event

Credit: Marilisa Cosello/Terre di mezzo Eventi While I am gearing up to cover Fashion Week here in New York, other cities are prepping for the debut of spring/summer 2011 collections: In Milan, Terre di mezzo Eventi and Isola della Moda have organized a green fashion event, called “So Critical, So Fashion,” which is geared towards” ethical consumerism,” that will highlight the work of fashion brands, independent designers, and socially- and environmentally-responsible enterprises that are working to spur innova… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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