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Runway-Worthy Recycled Jewelry Made from Nuts, Bolts, Zippers, and More (Photos)

Erica Corte Atelier necklace made with recycled zippers. Credit: Edwin Flores Argentinian-born designer Erica Corte, now based in New York City, crafts usually hard-looking materials into soft, feminine, and beautifully- handmade jewelry . At first glance, you’d never guess what they’re made out of: recycled industrial hardware components, including nuts, bolts, cutter pins, zippers, silk cord, and fine silver mesh. View mo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese

Photo credit Kiwi Flickr . Cars make you fat . That’s more or less the message noted researcher John Pucher has tirelessly delivered, making the case for cycling and walking – “active transportation” – as a way for cities to deal with creeping obesity rates and climbing health costs. Now, in a new analysis of U.S., European, and Australian cities, Pucher and his colleagues press the point home even a little further by showing that cities with the highest percentage of trips by foot and by bike have the lowest le… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brave Zoologist Makes Friends With a Pride of Lions (Video)

Armed only with his gentle nature and uncommonly brave spirit, zoologist and animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has managed to make some pretty wild frie… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Urban Forest Was Planted by Hand

Photo via FrogView From the top of Rio de Janeiro ‘s towering mountain of Corcovado, at the feet of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, the high rise urban centers neatly tucked along the shoreline are dwarfed by the rugged natural skyline. On these peaks, for as far as the eye can see, grows the dense jungle of the Tijuca forest — the largest urba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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George W. Bush in the Market for a New Mountain Bike

Image: C.A. Smith, casmithphotography.com During his time as President of the United States, George W. Bush’s love of mountain biking was no secret. Bush still rides with his training team cum security staff, known as Peleton 1, which includes Brandon Gillard, owner of the Kennebunkport Bicycle Company. The power of networking got the former President onto a Niner Jet 9. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Winters of My Life" – The Story of a Man Who’s Spent the Last 35 Winters at Yosemite (Video)

Image Courtesy of R. Drake, via Wikipedia Howard Weamer first visited Yosemite National Park in 1971 to do research for his doctoral thesis, on John Muir . In 1974, the Yosemite Association hired its first winter hut keeper to staff the Ostrander Ski Hut in the park’s backcountry. We… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Winters of My Life" – The Story of a Man Who’s Spent the Last 35 Winters at Yosemite (Video)

Top 5 Green Fashion Designers Favored by the ‘Great American Apparel Diet’ Founder (Photos)

Credit: Hemera One year ago we covered the commencement of the Great American Apparel Diet ; participants have staved off clothing consumption for — gulp — 365 days. In a little over 10 days the anti-shopping experiment ends. To help dieters avoid a disposable fashion shopping binge, Sally Bjornsen, creator and founder of the Great American Apparel Diet, has curated “Conscious Shopping” , a new section to her blog, updated thrice weekly, which features eco-friendly app… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Vampire Bat Killing Spree (Video)

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Contaminated Truffles Irradiating Wild Boars

Image credit: Subharnab /Flickr When Chernobyl’s reactor number four ignited in 1986, it sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the air that eventually spread across Europe. One place it settled was Germany. Now, nearly a quarter century later, that fallout is reappearing in wild boars with alarming frequency…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Incredible Blind Animals That are Hardly Senseless (Slideshow)

Image credit: johntrainor /Flickr In the comic Daredevil , mild-mannered Mathew Murdock is blinded when a chemical spills onto his face from a passing truck. With his vision impaired, the rest of his senses become heightened. Plot devices aside, nature is full of animals that, lacking a highly-developed sense of sight, are able to accomplish incredible things with their other senses.

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