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Britain’s Allotment Culture: When Residents Demand Land, They Get It (Video)

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Image credit: The Journey TV From this awesome tour of a permaculture allotment , to residents battling to keep their gardens , Britain’s ‘allotment’ culture has featured regularly on TreeHugger. And not without good reason. These small plots of land, rented from local government for an affordable fee, are visible in almost every town and city across the country,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Old Newspapers Get a Colorful (and Functional) Makeover with Holstee’s Recycled Wallets (Photos)

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Photo: courtesy of Holstee. From the makers of the eco-hipster tee comes a recycled wallet made from old plastic bags and newspapers collected from the streets of Delhi. New York-based eco-fashion brand Holstee has partnered with a non-profit in India to help provide employment to those often referred to as ‘rag pickers.’ Holstee’s slim wallets are minimalist in design and safely store your essentials: metro card, credit card, ID, etc. Each wallet has a one-of-a-kind pattern and is made with 90… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Africa’s Agbogbloshie Market is a Computer Graveyard

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Images from flavorwire A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time. The Canadian Ed Burtynsky has been photographing the impact of China’s massive industrial revolution and the environmental devastation it has left behind. The Brazilian Salvador Salgado depicts conditions endured by Brazilian coal miners and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Filter Could Make LCDs >400% More Efficient

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Photo: Flickr, CC Negawatts Strike Back The immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being optimally efficient. Only about 8% of the light emitted by a LCD’s backlight makes its way out, and the rest is wasted. But that might be about to change thanks to a new filter that could boost that efficiency by more than 400% and allow around 36% of the light to pass through. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Super Healthy Superfoods (Video)

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The Secret Life of the Sun (Slideshow)

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Photo via MinnPost We rely on the sun for everything from powering up our electronics to basic heat and warmth for survival, but this massive star does more than just send light our way: It’s a huge nuclear reactor with explosions, eruptions, storms, and magnetic fields that affect both itself and Earth. Check out our slideshow for stunning space photos of the solar flares, spicules, coronal mass ejections, and other jaw-dropping phenomena that make the sun one of the most fascinating parts of our s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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So Why Can’t We Bother to Buy Carbon Offsets for Our Flights?

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photo: jon smith via flickr If you buy a carbon offset for the flights you take, you’re in a small minority–at least according to a new survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority carried out at Stansted airport last September. As reported by The Guardian , only 7% of flyers surveyed bothered to buy at offs… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Search For Local Organic Food In The Arizona Desert

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Photo by cogdogblog Locally raised organic food — it’s what anyone who wants to eat the healthiest foods with the smallest environmental footprint hunts for, right? Whether from their own garden or the local markets, anyone should have access to produce, dairy and meats that are from their own county. But what do you do when you live in a place that’s not exactly conducive to raising crops, like, say, Phoenix, Arizona. After finding myself in this very city for a long enough visit that the minuscule organic produce offerings at the big chain grocery store down the street weren’t going … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Insect Eggs Look Amazing Up Close (Pics)

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Image via National Geographic Insect eggs are neat, but we had no idea they looked this neat. Gizmodo points us to a phenomenal slideshow of insect eggs photographed from and ant-eye view, making the less-than-2-millimeter eggs look other-worldly. Using a scanning electron microscope, National Geographic and Prüftechnik Uri and School of Applied Sciences, FHNW, show us what the beginnings of life look like for bugs. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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