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Seasonal Shifts Could Be Confusing Bees

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Image credit: ruurmo /Flickr Everything from fungus to parasites, pesticides to disease, pollution to habitat loss, has been blamed for the startling—often sudden— declines in bee populations worldwide… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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IKEA Sells Used Furniture (Only in Sweden for Now)

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Photo: Flickr , CC Might Expand to Other Countries Speaking of ” Reduce, Reuse, Recycle “, IKEA Sweden wants to make it easier for owners of old IKEA furniture to give it a second life. Against their own commercial interest, the company is offering a free online platform where sellers and buyers can find themselves, and they aren’t even taking a cut of the transactions. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ride in Comfort On The City Recumbent

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Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 results are out soon, and Designboom builds the tension with a release from the short list: A spectacular looking recumbent bike by Jean Davignon…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 – Land the Size of Alaska Cleared

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photo: Teacher Traveler via flickr More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Between 1980 and 2000, globally the amount of

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Would A Curvy Crosswalk Reduce Accidents?

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We always say that streets are for people, but nobody works very hard to make them comfortable for people rather than cars. After all, cars get curved corners to make it easier to get around but humans, they have to make sharp right angles. Jae Min Lim looks at the problem, and redesigns the crosswalk to reflect how people actually move…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Monbiot – "I Was Wrong About Veganism"

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Image credit: spratmackerel A long time ago, George Monbiot argued that the “only ethical response” to the sharp rise in meat eating around the world was to go vegan. He clearly changed his mind a while back though, instead making the case that we should reserve meat eating for special occasions . While he’s still an advocate of greatly reduced meat consumption, his latest article seems to be a lot more positive about even a moderate diet of well-raised animal proteins. So what’s got him to change his… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenpeace’s Tokyo Two Convicted of Whale Meat Theft by Japanese Court

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photo: Greenpeace The saga of the two Greenpeace activists arrested over two years ago for stealing whale meat from a shipping depot, in an effort to expose corruption within Japan’s whaling program , is over. Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were given one-year jail terms, suspended, for theft and trespassing. Prosecutors had wante… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Stylish Watt-Lite Creates An Energy Use Infographic in Real Time (Photos)

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All images via the Interactive Institute – www.tii.se “A regular torch shows what is hidden in the dark, the Watt-Lite shows the hidden use of electricity”, this is the essential purpose of a set of three lights created by designers at Stolkholm’s Interactive Institute . The Watt-Lite is a rather inventive form of smart meter that finds a straightforward way of demonstrating how much energy a building is using in the style of real … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Andrew Maynard’s Airdrop House: Just Add Water

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Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity always says that the last thing people need after a disaster is another architect’s idea for instant housing, but that hasn’t stopped TreeHugger Best of Green Young Architect Andrew Maynard from looking at the problem of the flooding in Pakistan and writing: Many would suggest, correctly, that what a disaster of this magnitude DOES NOT need is another idealistic architect proposing yet… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Recycled Pallets are the New Architecture

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Image from Ahmad Humeid Recycled pallets, or skids, are becoming the basis for a whole new genre of architecture. And for good reason: they are sustainable, recycled, and make use of discarded packaging. The recently built pop-up Jellyfish Theatre in London, is made of old materials including 800 market pallets. But everyone is doing it. This family home in Amman Jorday was designed with the outer wall made of industrial pallets. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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