Photo by Taberandrew Despite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007 , California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience shops would have taken effect by July 2012 in larger stores, and 2013 in smaller stores, and it would have made California the first state to institute a ban like this. It was
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California Bombs on Plastic Bag Ban
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Photo via Brian Gratwicke Does the intelligence of an animal factor in on your decision whether or not to eat them? Many people consider pigs to be incredibly intelligent, but they’re still mostly factory farmed in often abhorrent conditions. Scientists are pushing for dolphins and other cetaceans to have non-human person status, complete with inalienable rights. But they’re still hunted every year as a fish stock, as the documentary The Cove has highlighted. And what about cephalopods, a.k.a. octopuses and squid, which are known to be highly intelligent — so… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If Octopuses Are Self-Aware, Are You Less Likely To Eat Them?
Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that’s another story.) But rather than just advocating ripping out your old fixture—we’ve always been keen on adapting your old throne. From the
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Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)
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Image via Elephant Journal We’ve had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It’s still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico. But perhaps the importan… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage
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Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah’s Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Exploiting Utah’s Oil Shale Deposits is Fossil Foolishness (Video)
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Designing a space to serve multiple functions can be a challenge. British Columbia design studio Public had to learn about a whole new range of uses for Xthum, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University , where the Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Katzie Nations needed a space for celebrating, feasting, storytelling, counselling, advising, studying, and relaxing. How do you fit that all in?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kwantlen Xthum: First Nations Meeting Place at University Scoops Design Awards
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Image: MSN.com I’m admitting it: I have a great big dude crush on Mark Ronson . The British musician/producer has put together some of the best pop music the world’s heard in a while, and I can’t DJ a party without spinning his recut of Britney Spears’ Toxic (with Tiggers, ODB, and the Daptones horn section). Ronson’s upcoming release, Record Collection, includes a track called Bike Song, and the video is a beautiful thing. Ronson, Spank Rock, and Kyle Falconer bring the city’s bikes t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mark Ronson Brings Bikes to Life and Chases Babes (Video)
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photo: Leo Freitas via flickr According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon and Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared. All that tree felling resulted in 95…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Amazon Deforestation Down 16% Over Past Year, New Data Shows
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Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has been the EPA’s most effective tool for combating air pollution. When it was first enacted, the Clean Air Act only covered five pollutants. But over the last 40 years it has been amended to protect the public from dozens of additional dangerous pollutants. But air pollution doesn’t stop at state lines, and as a result people throughout the country are forced to breathe unhealthy air. EPA’s proposed Good Neighbor Rule will help states be good neigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Like a Good Neighbor, the Clean Air Act is There
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Image via Ecorazzi Brazil has received a whole lot of negativity regarding the Belo Monte dam. The $17 billion complex would divert nearly all of the flow of the Xingu River, a massive river known for its biodiversity, to generate hydroelectric power. A new video narrated by Sigourney Weaver illustrates through a 3D tour using Google Earth video the catastrophic social a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sigourney Weaver Deconstructs Disasterous Belo Monte Dam in ‘Defending the Rivers of the Amazon’ (Video)
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