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Bike Floss: The Next Step in (Disposable) Sustainable Bike Maintenance?

Image credit: Purple Harry From recycling bikes for inner city youth to a truly massive hoard of reclaimed bikes somewhere in England, one of the most endearing things about bicycle-based transportation is the relative ease and economy with which individuals can maintain, and even rebuild, their trusty stead. But sadly, bike maintenance may be a dying art. All too often, bikes are purchased as a consumer item and discarded wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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RUBBiSH: Recycled Rubber Tire Sinks From Minarc

Images: Minarc via Architects Magazine From Earthships and building materials , to water filters , shoes and bags , old rubber tires have lon… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Does Obama Really Support Sustainable Agriculture?

Image credit: The WHO Farm When Michelle Obama first announced her White House garden , locavores everywhere rejoiced. Here was a highly symbolic, yet practical, indication of where the administration stood on sustainable agriculture. Yet while the First Lady has since enlarged the White House garden , and even

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Is the Electrification of Transportation a Good Thing? (Part 2)

Electric Cars are Coming – Is it a Good Thing? In part 1 , we looked at why it’s important to get our cars off oil and what the first part of that transition might look like. Today, we look at the next phase, the electrification of transportation. Is it a good thing? Why? Isn’t it just moving pollution around because of all those batteries and coal plants? Let’s have a look…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Urban Planners Make You Fat

Georgian London, with green squares everywhere April recently wrote Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese , but how do they get that way? George Monbiot writes that “We are, to a surprising extent, what the built environment makes us,” quoting a series of studies which show trees make us more social, quiet areas are friendlier and vegetation reduces crime. He also notes the relationship between urban planning and body mass index: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Loblaws’ Grown Close to Home Foods…Aren’t

Images by B. Alter: Would you rather shop here… Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada’s largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries. It’s three years later and things have changed–sort of. Now they have a little booth at the front of the store called “Grown Close to Home” and they are selling Ontario peaches and potatoes and cucumbers. But right behind it they have their cherries from the USA and pineapple from Costa Rica. That’s a rather broad definition of local. We aren’t the only ones noticing this… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bird-Friendly Glass Designed With Help From Spiders

Photos from Arnold Glas There’s a terrible feeling you get when a bird smacks into a window, at the office or at your home. “What was that?!” You look outside, and see a dead or injured bird on the ground. Birds can’t see glass, and windows on buildings are a major cause of avian fatalities around the world. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s such a thing as bird friendly glass, believe it or not. A German company called Arnold Glas makes Ornilux, and recently collected an international design award for its spider-web ins… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Novice Versus Nature: Digital Technology Can Worsen The Odds Of Survival

SPOT emergency personal communicator device, with “SOS” button. Image credit: Amazon ad . Many younger Americans, devoid of such early life experiences as one would get from Boy Scouting or hunting, emboldened by a proliferation of cheap GPS devices, and perhaps encouraged by the recent outpouring of ‘survival shows’ are doing the dumb dance into the wild. The results can be at both public and personal expense.

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Colorful, Durable, Unique Family Toys From LOUyLOU

Images: LOUyLOU Those ubiquitous plastic play-kitchens for kids may be a thing of the past, if massive recalls and a recent upsurge of interest in non-toxic, higher-quality toys mean anything. That’s why these vibrant play kitchens (made from empty olive cans) from Berlin-based “family project” LOUyLOU are especially appealing — they are uniquely handmade and have a nostalgic touch to them. But true to their motto “made f… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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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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