Image via Yanko Design Designing snazzy solar accessories has proven to be a tough job, judging by what we’ve seen come off of the drawing board . Normally, solar bags are rather clunky things that don’t work all that well, with just a small handful of expensive exceptions . One designer has decided it’s worth going into more brand-sp… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Solar Powered Backpack Even Steve Jobs Would Wear
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan. Image: chairman moneko via Flickr In January, McDonald’s Italy announced the launch of its McItaly menu. The burger giant has always offered different menus throughout the world to cater to local tastes so it’s no real surprise that they’ve chosen Italy – a nation of proud culinary diversity – to go McLocal. So great, McDonald’s supports local food systems now, right? Well, not so fast. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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McDonald’s Goes A Little Bit McLocal
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Courtesy photo. The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is accepting applications for the 2010 Innovation Award , an annual sustainable design competition and, along with The Fairtrade Foundation , they have launched a new category sponsored by Tesco: The Fairtrade Cotton Award. If you are an aspiring green designer or if you are established and want to broaden your audience, this is the competition for you. Click through for details, deadlines(!), and view photo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Paraphrasing: ‘ city kids don’t know how to swim; and, so it’s better to have repulsive water to keep them from going in and drowning .’ I’m thinking that the ‘we can’t afford it just now’ argument would have been sufficient. Here’s a sample of Chicago Tribune coverage that spells out the essence: Three decades of improvements already have cleaned up the river to the point where 60 species of fish can be found in channels where just five once survived. But as more people are drawn to the waterways for recreation, federal and state officials have concluded that past efforts haven’t been good enough. After five years of study and two years of debate, the EPA concluded t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chicago, Citing Benefits Of ‘Floaters’ – Tells Obama Administration To Take A Dive
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Image via: Wonderlane /Flickr Weekday vegetarians ready to ramp up their meatless-ness may find inspiration in this recently released study in Environmental Health News . For five days, 25 study participants dwelled in a Buddhist temple and adopted a monk’s lifestyle–including their oftentimes veggie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Buddhist Monk’s Vegetarian Diet to Minimize Chemical Exposure
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Image via Time You’ve likely heard a pretty diverse range of arguments from advocates of Arizona’s draconian anti-illegal immigration law, and of cracking down on immigration in general: immigrants are stealing American jobs, unduly siphoning off taxpayer money, causing crime rates to rise, and other, even more xenophobic claims. But here’s one I bet you haven’t heard before: illegal immigrants are causing global warming . And if we care about stopping climat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Want to Stop Global Warming? Keep Out the Immigrants! (Video)
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Photo by poolie So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris — or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across the globe? Cartoonist Jim Toomey decided to send two of his characters off on an adventure to show you in the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon . The journey starts in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)
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Photo by invisibleconsequential via flickr. Air quality is not something we tend to complain about – a rain shower or snow flurries can stop cyclists in their tracks, but gradually worsening air doesn’t make our daily talking points. Perhaps it should – we are a bit like frogs in the hot pot, not realizing the danger until we’re dead. A new UK study reported in the Times shows cyclists can be among the most vulnerable to dirty, particulate-rich city air, inhaling fiv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Polluted Cities Like London Choke Pedal-Powered Residents With Dirty Nanoparticles
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A water buck attempts to swim from Starvation Island to the mainland in northern Zimbabwe. Photo by the Associated Press It may take another Noah’s Ark to save the population of Zimbabwe ‘s sadly aptly named Starvation Island, where record seasonal rains have flooded the Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Record Rains Drown and Strand Animal Residents of Zimbabwe’s Starvation Island
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Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?
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