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Avoid "Generation Zero" – Build an Ocean Recovery Alliance

Image via The Plastiki Guest post by Doug Woodring, Co-Founder/Director of Project Kaisei The state of our ocean today is a perfect example of tragedy of the commons. We all use and take from the sea, but the majority of it is not “owned” or governed by any one country, much like the air we breathe, having no borders. As groups like Plastiki and Project Kaisei draw attention to the plight of the ocean, and the amount of waste in the

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What We Don’t Know About the Ocean Can Kill Us

Jo aboard the Plastiki; Photos via The Plastiki Guest post by Jo Royle, Skipper on the Plastiki ‘The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides’ – Jules Vern, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. I think most of us feel an emotional tie to the oceans. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief or relaxation as soon as we set eyes upon the deep blue wilderness, a feeling of coming home. My childhood mem… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Greenest Brick: City Votes to Demolish Entire Street of 41 Historic Buildings

Terrific illustration from the National Post We do go on about how The Greenest Brick is the One Already in the Wall , how old buildings have embodied energy, how renovation creates more jobs than new construction, and how

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Is It Time We Maximise Our Ecological Impact? Being Less Bad is Not Enough

Image credit: Pasty Muncher I’ve been thinking some more about why individual environmental action is not enough . It’s not just that the metric for success—personal reductions in our impact, as opposed to collective—is on the wrong scale. It’s the wrong metric too. We are spending so much time worrying about how to reduce our impact, and be less bad, we are loosing sight of the fact that we can’t just slow the destruction. We have to reverse it too. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Orangutans in Zoos Enjoy Watching You, Too

Photo via Ruth Flickr There’s nothing quite like a visit to the zoo for catching a glimpse of some of the world’s most fascinating animals –but, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones who enjoy a little interspecies gawking. Researchers from Australia’s

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Firefighters Cut a Chevy Volt to Pieces During Safety Training (Video)

Photo: GM Making Sure the Chevy Volt is Safe for First Responders A friend of mine works part-time as a firefighter in a small town, and one of the things that he’s often talking about is how dangerous airbags can be if you are a first responder. They might save the life of a car’s passengers, but if they go off while you are crawling inside a car, or if you cut up the car in the wrong pace and hit an unexploded airbag, that can cause big problems. But first responders are trained for this and are adjusting their techniques to minimize risk. The same is true with elec… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Firefighters Cut a Chevy Volt to Pieces During Safety Training (Video)

LivingHomes and Nexterra Green Homes Team Up To Do Modern Green Prefab Right

TreeHugger has been a big fan of Steve Glenn and his Living Homes since it started . But when I first heard that they were coming to Canada I was a bit dubious, after a few years of working in the business here. I had concerns about the level of interest in modern prefab and the suitability of the Living Homes designs for the Canadian climate. Now, having seen what Gary Lands and Barry Campbell of Nexterra Green Homes are planning, I realize that I was completely wrong. They have addressed every one of the proble… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Energy Literacy Our Biggest Challenge? Confessions of a Coal-Fired Pizza Addict

Image credit: Other Brooks Brother & HowStuffWorks Not long ago I was in New York, and was surprised at the number of restaurants proudly proclaiming that they sold “coal-fired pizza.” Having established that we were, indeed, talking about coal – not charcoal – I found myself outraged that folks could see burning coal in the center of the city, or anywhere for that matter, as a desirable selling point. I mean, what’s wrong with wood? That outrage has been on my mind a lot lately, because as we watch the public fail to grasp the connecti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Eyes On: Atrazine Higher in June – Watch Out Midwesterners!

Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. I saw on my local news station’s website and recently in The Organic Center’s newsletter, The Scoop, warnings about The “June Effect.” The definition: Relatively high levels of the corn herbicide atrazine are present in Midwestern water supplies in June, following the spring spray season, triggering an increase in birth defects among children born nine months later. Source: “Atrazine Co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Samsung’s Newest Eco-Friendly Cell Phone Hits Stores

Samsung has been known to put out some green-minded cell phones, from the Blue Earth solar powered phone that seemed promising to the Reclaim , an inexpensive phone for the masses that carries a lighter footprint. Now, their Restore has just been released, perfect for anyone with an affinity for texting rather than talking. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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