photo: Matthew McDermott To hear NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe describe it, either on WNYC or in the New York Post , the proposed rules governing the City’s hundreds of community gardens are a definite step up from the 2002 … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Community Garden Rules Offer Weaker Protection Than 2002 Agreement: NY State Lead Attorney
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Image credit: Sister72 Around midnight on Wednesday, August 11th, a group of commodity analysts will gather at a meeting site in the massive South Building of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. Once they are assembled, the door will be locked. Cell phones will be collected. Phone and Internet lines will be disconnected. Short of a medical emergency, no one will be permitted to leave before 8:30 am…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices
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Photo via WLS Channel An eye-opening study profiled in the New York Times reveals that some girls in the United States are hitting puberty at abnormally early ages — sometimes at 7 or 8 years old. There are a number of suspected causes for this potentially dangerous trend, chief among them childhood obesity and exposure to chemicals. This gives us yet another reason to e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obesity, Chemical Exposure Causing Some Girls to Hit Puberty at Age 7, Study Finds
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All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes , has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike — a full-sized urban bicycle that all but disappears when brought indoors. Graham shares with us some of the thinking behind his idea. Love it? Pick up your own via special order through Schindelhauer. TreeHugger: What is about that living in inner city apartments that has focuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Interview, Slideshow)
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In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the Mad Men style office that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your office is where you are. They were off by about 25 years; it takes time for technological innovation to percolate through and cause real change. They also didn’t go far enough, thinking only about the promise of being able to talk on the phone; now the technology is getting so small that your office isn’t just where you are, it’s in your pants. Now Sami Grover is my favourite TreeHugger writer, (… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Your Office is In Your Pants: 6 Trends Shaping The Way We Work
Necrotizing Fasciitis illustration (trust us, you don’t want to see actual photos…) Sandy Wilson woke up after giving birth to her son to find that she was the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria. Over the course of five years, it ate away her skin, spleen, gall bladder, appendix, part of her stomach and ultimately, all of her intestines. The condition appears out of nowhere and used to be fairly rare, caused by a single type of strep bacteria. But now, drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA can make “flesh-eating” toxins that attack diabetics, obese… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Drug-Resistant Flesh-Eating Germs More Common with Superbugs
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Image via: Richard Perry/ The New York Times People think to do yoga you have to be flexible. But the flexibility is not in the body. It’s in the mind. That’s why anyone can do it. Amen! As an expert stepping ever more deeply into the often misguided world of yoga (what? you can’t wrap your ankle around your head?), it’s always nice hearing such sagely words like those above from Ricardo Sisco. Sisco is an instructor who guides weekl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NYT Spotlights Yoga for Seniors, Not Just the Svelte
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Image via Green Space Today Rouge Tomate is an upscale, Michelin Star-winning restaurant situated in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But what sets it apart from the countless other restaurants that fit that exact description is a genuine dedication to achieving some bright green ideals — there’s a heavy emphasis on local foods featured on the menu items, the design standards sate the Green Restaurant Association’s requirements, and, yes, they compost all biodegradable waste. Rouge Toma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Meet Rouge Tomate: The Restaurant with Both a Michelin Star and a Composting Room
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Photo: nateOne (Flickr) As if the annoying, misleading ads from the makers of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) weren’t enough food for thought already, CBS News reports that researchers from UCLA have found that fructose — which is a component of HFCS (a suspected culprit in America’s obesit… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fructose Can Accelerate Growth of Cancer Cells: Study
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It’s Episode 9 already? My God,
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Chef Josh, Cheese, and Jean-Georges On The Fabulous Beekman Boys
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