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Celebrate Local Food During National Farmers’ Market Week

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Photo: Kelly Rossiter This is National Farmers’ Market week in the U.S. and it’s the perfect time to get acquainted with your local market if you haven’t already. If you are a market regular, take a friend who’s never been before. Buy a vegetable you’ve never tried and be adventuresome. Have a chat with the farmer who is selling her wares and ask her about the farm. Discover the joy of eating local and seasonal food that has just been picked. Take cash and cloth bags. Ask the farmers how they like to prepare the vegetables you are buying. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Paying Ecuador To Not Drill The Yasuni: Extortion Or Sound Conservation Practice?

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Stephen recently posted about how Ecuador Will Receive $3.6 Billion to Not Drill for Oil . This is a controversial subject that TreeHugger has been covering for a couple of years; many have suggested that it is akin to blackmail, with Ecuador extorting money to leave the oil under what is supposed to be a national park. Hence posts with titles like Ecuador Says Show Me the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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VeloMini Folding Electric Bike Brings Best of Both Worlds

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Image via Velomini For urban cyclists, there’s the convenience of folding bikes that can easily fit inside an apartment, office cubicle, or subway car, and there’s also the helpful ease of electric assist bikes which can get you to work without breaking much of a sweat. There aren’t all that many bikes out there that offer both of these features, but breaking on to the scene is the Velomini, and it looks promising. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With Spectacular Stick Sculptures by Patrick Dougherty, Art and Nature Collide (Slideshow)

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Sculptor Patrick Dougherty’s “Sortie de Cave / Free At Last” (2008) at the Jardin des Arts, Chateaubourg, France. Photo credit: Charles Crie. For sculptures that start out as scrap and end up as compost, Patrick Dougherty ‘s nest-like works are intensely full of life, sprawling out across lawns , reaching into treetops, and winding up stairs. His works around the world are all shaped from sustainably harvested tree

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Fructose Can Accelerate Growth of Cancer Cells: Study

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: nateOne (Flickr) As if the annoying, misleading ads from the makers of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) weren’t enough food for thought already, CBS News reports that researchers from UCLA have found that fructose — which is a component of HFCS (a suspected culprit in America’s obesit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Minus Oil: Where Technology Can Curb Our Consumption

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Photo via quapan Our culture is obsessed with technology, and for many people it seems the solution to our environmental conundrums is embedded in the ways we utilize the technology we have to create solutions. To a great degree, technology is what got us into this oil-dependent mess in the first place; still, it can very well be an important component of moving away from oil while maintaining the same degree of global connectivity we currently experience. In three major areas, including communication, transportation and food, we discuss ho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Filtered Water In 2 Minutes with New UV Light Bottle Invention

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Image via James Dyson Award Most portable water filters use carbon filters, special membranes with microscopic openings, or chemicals like chlorine or iodine to clean the water and make it save for drinking. However, one of the best systems for purifying water is actually with ultraviolet light. But how do you get an ultraviolet light purification system into a small portable water bottle that can be used anywhere? One design and technology graduate has figured it out, and already won the UK branch of the prestigious James Dyson Award for… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Armchair Pundits and Climate Science

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Photo via the NY Times One of the most worthy critiques of modern media is that it’s increasingly reliant on pundits and opinion makers, and increasingly less concerned with actual reportage. Take my job, for example. I do a fair amount of original reportage, and have contacts in pertinent fields. But the majority of the work I do is locating stories of note, commenting on them, and explaining their relevance to the green sphere. There are now thousands of people employed to do this with their respective beats — and sometimes, it shows. Fo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Oil Corp Further Endangers Grey Whales With Seismic Surveys

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photo: John Bruckman via flickr A follow-up to a story from a couple months back on how Russian oil and gas corp Rosneft proposed to begin seismic surveys near Sakhalin Island , in the process endangering already critically endangered grey whales. Despite public outcry, plus recommendations from scientists and 12 governments that they ought to just postpone t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Urban Decay Expands Vegan Line With Limited Edition Eyeshadow Palette

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Urban Decay’s Vegan Palette. Photo courtesy of Urban Decay. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Being vegan can be tough if you love cosmetics. Finding animal-free eyeshadows and mascaras isn’t easy to begin with, and then there’s the issue of being able to find the colors you want. We’ve talked about Urban Decay ‘s cruelty-fre… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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