Photo: AMagill / CC In this age of consumerism , particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we’ve used the longest often have the most value to us — but the virtues of reuse just seem come natural… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Woman Has Used the Same Christmas Tree Every Year Since 1928
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Photo by laszlo-photo via Flickr creative commons First the news was that if we don’t change our habits around fishing, all the world’s fisheries will be wiped out by 2050. Now, experts guess that if we don’t significantly change our interaction with the ocean, coral reefs will be all but wiped out by that same time. J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human-generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean tempe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Corals Reefs Will Be Wiped Out By 2050, Expert Says
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Zebras are naturally barcoded. Photo via wwarby We’ve heard of barcoding trees to prevent deforestation , and tagging animals to track them for scientific purposes is an everyday practice. But what about barcoding the DNA of all animals across the planet to protect them from illegal poaching, trapping or over-hunting? The International Barcode of Life project aims to do just that by assigning a barcode to each individual speci… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: BoingBoing I would have loved to send my kids to the Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool, being built at an undisclosed location and revealed for the first time on BoingBoing. It’s being built of Binishells, which,
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Binishells At The Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool
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When fashion trumps function: The Teva Stiletto. Photo: Mi-Zo Teva ‘s Stilettos have been making the rounds on the style blogs, from The Huffington Post to Refinery 29 , this week. In collaboration with Grey Ant , a NY-based fashion designer, and online retailer New High Mart , the collection has re… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Teva Stilettos. Fashion Over Function? (Photos)
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Photo: 林 慕尧 / Chris Lim , Wikimedia, CC Energy hawks — hell, all of us, really — have no doubt gotten a little tired of hearing about how much investment China is dumping into clean energy compared to the United States. Yes, we are severely lagging in the renewable sector, and yes, China is poised to eat our lunch in solar and wind — China has just set a new goal to get 500 GW of renewable power on the grid by 2020. No, we’re nowhere near that number — and we certainly won’t be if we continue on our current trajectory. But there’s still a lot to learn from Ch… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China to Hit 500 GW of Renewable Power by 2020
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Image credit Tjeerd Veenhoven , via Gizmag One of the few complaints about the iPhone is the short battery life. Most people need to charge their phones on a nearly daily basis. The possibility for a low battery while away from a power outlet is pretty good, so off-grid charger concepts have come up often over the last few years. Most revolve around solar power, but the new iFan concept from Tjeerd Veenhoven utilizes the power of a good strong breeze. However, is it at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPhone Skin is Really a Wind-Powered Charger
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Down in Mexico at the COP16 climate conference, Andy Revkin of the New York Times just posted a video interview he did with environmental campaigner and thinker extraordinare
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There’s No Longer A Happy Ending Where We Prevent Climate Change Anymore: Bill McKibben (Video)
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Sumatran tiger in the Melbourne zoo, photo: Wikipedia A rare bright spot in the world of tiger conservation: New research by the Wildlife Conservation Society ‘s Indonesia Program and Forum HariumauKita has produced a new map of Sumatran tiger distribution which shows that the Indonesia island may actually have the second-highest population of tigers
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Sumatran Tiger Population May Be Larger Than Believed – Second Only to India
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Around the world, tarantulas are kept as pets but many popular species are endangered in the wild. Photo credit: christopher.woo / Creative Commons ” Operation Spiderman “—which had nothing to do with the fictional crime-fighting web-slinger—came to an end this weekend with the arrest of Sven Koppler, a German man thought to be responsible for the smuggling of thousands of endangered spiders. Authorities began tracking Koppler after intercepting a package concealing 3… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Spider Smuggler Snared in Sting Operation
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