Have you ever looked at a product the size of a pea wrapped in a layer of clear film, with a 20 page instruction booklet, vacuum packed in hard plastic, covered by another layer of cardboard and thought, “Why?!”? Well, you’re not alone. We, along with our favorite eco-chick, green journalist Starre Vartan , were so frustrated with certain kinds of packaging —and inspired by others —that we decided to launch an entire series to exploring the
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Best of Inhabitat: Packaging the Future
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Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız visits the Greenpeace office in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district. Photo via Bursa Burada . The persistently high temperatures that have many parts of Turkey sweltering also have the country’s air conditioners crank… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Turkish Energy Minister to Environmentalists: If You Hate Our Policy So Much, Stop Using Energy
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Photo via 9 News Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle , this koala bear survived being hit by a car travelling upwards of 50 mph — a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratch
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Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual chickens, and rescue real ones too . It seems a UK company has been having similar ideas—developing an iPhone app that allows you to plant a virtual tree and help it grow, meanwhile securing real tree in the Peruvian rainforest. So c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones
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Passive House, or Passivhaus design is finally becoming really active in North America, and is popping up in communities across the country. Just recently we showed a traditional one in Oregon, but are back to form with the R-House, the winner of a design competition “provide a new model for formerly vital, urban residential neighborhoods throughout the United States through the creation of sustainable, affordable housing.”
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R-House in Syracuse Can Be Heated With A Hair Dryer
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Image of toothbrush via ingridtaylor ; image of solar powered brush via Canada.com It’s one thing to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power. It’s another thing altogether to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power and eliminates the need for you to ever buy toothpaste again. Sound too good to be true? It might be. Though Shiken company of Japan believes otherwise now that they’ve created a tooth… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Solar-Powered Toothbrush Needs No Toothpaste
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Image courtesy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A dress made from slimy salami and meaty bacon? An entire wardrobe made from one woman’s hair? A 22-story pair of pants? These tales and more in Ripley’s Believe It or Not’s recently published book called “Enter If You Dare!” The annual collection of odd and extraordinary tales from around the globe offers up fashion stories, from the fascinating and frightening to the excessive and extreme. Click through for more — but only — if you dare!… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gross, Weird, and Frightening Fashion from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Trashy Lingerie, Rats on the Catwalk, and More (Photos)
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Image credit: Tomi Tapio /Flickr With their habitats shrinking, and new competitors moving in , polar bears across the Arctic are desperate to find a place to feed, rest, and raise their cubs. In Canada, this has led to an increase in polar bear-human interactions . On the island of Svalbard, north of Europe, it has placed another species—barnacle geese—in danger… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Stranded Polar Bears Threaten Migratory Birds
Wellington Grey on the truth about wireless devices The tinfoil hats are out in Ontario, as teachers, parents and politicians pile on Wi-Fi.. Parents in Simcoe County, north of Toronto, are claiming that their kids are suffering from headaches, dizziness and even racing heart beats, and are blaming Wi-Fi. and that nobody is listening to them. According to the Star, “Parents are getting together and realizing this i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Parents And Teachers Demanding That Schools Dump WiFi
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Photo by Samuel Mann How do our brains physically react when we’re yanked away from all things techy that currently run our lives? A group of five neurologists took a trip to Glenn Canyon National Recreation Area to find out what actually happens to our brains when we remove email, cell phones, text messages, televisions — even watches — from our field of vision and daily tasks. During the week-long experiment (that sounds like one of the world’s best experiments to be a participant in) the neurologists rafted down the San Juan River, camping along… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Disconnecting Your Brain from Tech Can Reconnect It to Reality (Video)
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