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Prettiest Travelling Bike Ever. But At What Price?

images from Wallpaper* Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things. However the money-no-object aesthetic can be a turn-off. Thus I am a bit conflicted showing their International Bike . It is truly a thing of beauty, and comes in a lovely bag made by Nivaldo de Lima that would probably even get past

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Incredible Blind Animals That are Hardly Senseless (Slideshow)

Image credit: johntrainor /Flickr In the comic Daredevil , mild-mannered Mathew Murdock is blinded when a chemical spills onto his face from a passing truck. With his vision impaired, the rest of his senses become heightened. Plot devices aside, nature is full of animals that, lacking a highly-developed sense of sight, are able to accomplish incredible things with their other senses.

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Who Has Open Fires When It’s 100 Degrees Outside? Olive Garden

Image credit: Olive Garden & Peter Baker (Creative Commons) When I wrote about drying clothes indoors , I was surprised to hear that some folks had considered opening the windows and cranking up the heat on the thermostat as a “green” method of clothes drying – even when you wouldn’t otherwise need to heat your house. But they’re not the only ones doing weird things out of season—tipster Ty tells us that his local… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Has Open Fires When It’s 100 Degrees Outside? Olive Garden

Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratch

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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NYC’s Empire State Building is Going Dark this Fall to Save Migratory Birds

Photo: Wikipedia , CC The Lights Out NY Campaign Just in New York City, about 90,000 migratory birds die each year by colliding with buildings. The Lights Out campaign, which started in Chicago and is organized by the Audubon society , aims to save migratory birds by dimming the lights of skyscrapers during the peak migratory season each Fall. This year many iconic NYC buildings will participate, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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CREE to Supply 10.5W LED Downlights to Home Depot

Photo: Cree Let There Be Light At TreeHugger, we’ve been writing about ways to make lighting more energy efficient for years. Not because it’s the most important things to do to reduce your footprint (more important things including: signing up for Green Power with your utility company, buying as little stuff as possible and making it last, and using your feet, your bike , or

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Solar-Powered Toothbrush Needs No Toothpaste

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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The Problem With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Conservation

Image credit: Mister-E /Flickr As the value of endangered animal parts on the black market has increased, poachers have been able to upgrade and expand their operations. Now, gangs, armed with helicopters and weapons—and financed by foreign cartels —perform stealth raids that

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Tesla Co-Founder: Electric Cars with 500+ Mile Range by 2020

Martin Eberhard with a Tesla electric Roadster. Photo: Flickr , CC EV Forecast: Sunny, But Uncertain Martin Eberhard, one of the original co-founders of Tesla Motors in 2003 and now director at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), is predicting that that within the next 10 years, electric cars will have a range of 500 miles and more. It’s a bold prediction considering that the Tesla Roadster has a range of 244 miles (at a very high cost, and for a lightweight 2-seater) and that most other e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Illegal Logging by Pakistan’s Timber Mafia Increased Flooding Devastation

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan . A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the ‘timber mafia’ has increased erosion, landslides, and even sent felled trees floating down rivers damaging bridges and dams. The original article goes through the timber mafia connection with the Taliba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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