Image credit: Encore /The Purpose Prize From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder , through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online , to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources , a return to sustainable farming does not mean a rejection of what technology has to offer. Inspired by the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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$3k Website Connects Farms to Restaurants, Creating Virtual Coop
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Image Source: Mike Deal Dear Pablo: I am still holding out on getting new LED holiday lights because I feel bad about getting rid of the ones that I already have. Are the energy savings worth it? Many of us have a tangled mess of holiday lights in a box in the attic. Every year we bring it out, untangle them, spend hours searching for the one burned out bulb, and hang them on our houses. In addition to all of this effort, the lights use a lot of electricity. You would be surprised by how little of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ask Pablo: Is It Finally Time To Get LED Holiday Lights?
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After responding to a fire at the George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh, firefighters stumbled upon a blood-splattered hotel room littered with liquor bottles and even a piece of a scalp. Police Chief J.R. Blyth, who was brought in to investigate, called the discovery “the most grisly murder scene in his 35 years in law enforcement.” Only, the blood wasn’t real. It was actually the leftover set of a horror movie that was filmed two years ago with Corey Haim.
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Photo: letsgo Two years ago TreeHugger commented, not too positively, on the bicycle rental scheme in Brussels. Calling the post ” Free Bikes Flop in Brussels “, lack of bicycles, lack of docking stations and lack of commitment were all issues. Now a new group has sprung up: ” Where’s my Villo? ” and things are changing dramatically. It’s called citizen, or should that be cyclist,
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Cyclists Campaign to Improve Brussels Rental Bike Scheme
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Electrobonsai effect on trees : They move away from EMF sources. Image Credit Lloyd Alter The TreeHugger Team proved it three years ago: Trees do not like WiFi. Now other scientists are catching up. A recent Dutch study was quoted in PC World : The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a “lead-like shine” on their leaves that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is WiFi Killing Our Trees?
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Images Credit John Picken Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune , wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like “kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs.” He looks at the HOK designed Greenway Garage in Chicago and doesn’t think much of the idea, suggesting that it removes the guil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?
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Photo: Steve Evans , Wikimedia, CC As if Mondays weren’t depressing enough, there’s this bit of news to start off your day: Tigers could be entirely extinct in the wild just over a decade. There are only 3,200 tigers left, outside of captivity. At least 1,000 were killed over the last decade by poaching alone. Many more are threatened by habitat loss caused by human development. If this trajectory continues, one of the most recognizable and universally-beloved species on the plane… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tigers Could Be Extinct in 12 Years
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Image Credit Lloyd Alter There are some things that the Internet is very good at, including helping put people and people or things and things together. Nathan Benjamin runs a dating service for materials, putting people together with the used materials they need. ” PlanetReuse makes using reclaimed building materials effortless, expertly matching materials with designers, builders and owners to save projects money, serve LEED efforts and sustain the planet.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Anna Garforth . Armed with gardening equipment, white traffic paint, or even a few benches, young (and not so young) activists around the world are taking back the streets to turn our cities into greener, more livable and simply more fun spaces.
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Breaking the Law to Make Streets Greener? 8 Smart Guerrilla Urban Improvements (Slideshow)
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Image credit: Ryan Wick , used under Creative Commons license. Ever since TreeHugger first started reporting on the mysterious honeybee deaths afflicting beekeepers worldwide , there have been countless suggestions of possible causes, and cures, for this worrisome phenomenon. Of all the environmental issues out there, the plight of the honeybees has attracted public attention like no other —in fact,
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Colony Collapse Disorder and the Epic Fight to Save the Bees
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