Green roofs growing in New York City. Photos: Eve Mosher Putting a green roof on a landmark building — the city hall in Toronto or Chicago, a convention center in Vancouver , San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences — has long bee… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time
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Tagged artists, Brooklyn, city, Culture, discovery, francisco, green news, green-roof, greener-city, New York City, progress-nyc, roofs-growing, sciences, stars
Image: Nissan Tactile Feedback FTW Nissan’s ECO Pedal is a great idea. We’ve known for a while that giving drivers some feedback on their fuel consumption helps them drive more efficiently (and more sanely!). The most obvious example is the LCD screen in the Toyota Prius, but there are other ways of providing that feedback. Ford has an instrument cluster that grows leaves to ‘reward’ you for effici… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan is Licensing Fuel-Saving ECO Pedal to Other Automakers
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Photo credit: Ross Tucknott / Creative Commons It’s not often that a book inspires you to go out and shovel steaming piles of horse poop on a cold November afternoon. But that’s exactly what happened to me after reading Gene Logsdon’s Holy Shit , and I mean it as a resounding compliment to the author. I should note, of course, that it doesn’t take much to get me thinking, and writing, about poop, pee, co… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Finally, A Practical Guide to Dealing With…Manure (Book Review)
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Tagged books, botanical, farming, green news, healthy, Hollywood, horse-manure, margaritas, mesh-sharing, practical, practical-guide, shovel-steaming, united-states
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Today on Planet 100: Test Driving the Chevy Volt (Video)
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Image credit: striatic , used under Creative Commons license. Whether it’s brilliant ways to reuse your books , or an easy way to reuse wine corks , TreeHugger has seen plenty of craftsy, DIY examples of reuse as a creative way to greener living. But I’ve been thinking lately that good intentions can lead to bad decisions—more specifically, I’ve been wonde… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When Does Reuse Become Hoarding?
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TreeHugger’s Emma gets a natural beauty makeover by Blades Natural Beauty. Photo: Jessa Blades When organic beauty expert and natural makeup artist Jessica Blades of Blades Natural Beauty offered to show me some tips and tricks behind green beauty, I jumped at the chance to have my makeup done and learn a thing or two along the way. Blades, who has been recognized by Glamour Magazine and has appeared on “The Today Show,” shares 6 makeup beauty tips–from DIY-lip hues to makeup product care–to achieve a green-beauty glow. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via People Power People Power , a company we first learned about a couple years ago at West Coast Green, is moving into more serious territory than the energy-saving Facebook app launched earlier this year. Current trends show we’re on a path to have over 100 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, and People Power is getting ready to be ahead of that wave when it comes to energy efficiency with it’s new En… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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People Power Bring ESP to the Smart Grid (Video)
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Tagged Celebrity, couple-years, Culture, getting-ready, green news, Hollywood, internet, People, people-power, power, stars
On Thursday night, Americans are thankful for what they have, and on Friday morning, many will go out and get more of it. It’s crazy, especially in these economic times, to be shovelling money into big box stores. Kalle Lasn of Adbusters thought so, and explains the logic behind Buy Nothing Day : Our headlong plunge into ecological collapse requires a profound shift in the way we see things. Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are band-aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: we have to consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing D… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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So Many Special Days To Celebrate This Month
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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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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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