Photo by Agaton Strom Some discouraging polls released late last year and early this year showed that American belief in man-caused global warming was on a serious decline. So-called Climate Gate and an unusually cold and snowy winter were blamed Now, it seems that the trend… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Americans’ Support for Climate Action Growing Again, Poll Finds
A commercial tuna fishing vessel. Photo: Wikipedia , CC. Are We Waiting for the Total Annihilation of Bluefin Tuna to Act? Bluefin tuna is already critically endangered and probably shouldn’t even be fished in the first place, and it now has to face the poisoning of its spawning ground in the Atlantic by the BP oil spi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bluefin Tuna Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against EU’s Industrial Fishing Boats
Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It’s hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder
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Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD . Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around 250 chemicals are used in the process , with chromium sulfate being the most dangerous. In Monday’s is… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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3 Ways Leather Tanneries are Greening Up Their Process
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(more images below) Years ago we wrote about the Spanish shoe company Pikolinos when they obtained the EU flower label . Since then they have made a stronger statement about their environmental commitment. This summer collection takes their sustainable business approach yet another step further with a brand new collection of sandals, slip-ons and jewellery decorated by Maasai women in Kenya…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pikolinos, a Spanish Shoe Company Works with Maasai Women in Kenya
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Photo via Code Pink blog . Diane Wilson, one of the founders of the Code Pink protest group , today anointed herself with a glass jar of toffee-colored oil at a Senate Energy Sumbcommittee meeting to protest, she says, Senator Lisa Murkowski’s blocking of a bill that would have lifted BP’s liability cap. President Obama had earlier in the week announced he was supporting lifting the $75 million cap, to raise it to $10 bil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Unreasonal Woman’ Diane Wilson Doused in Oil to Protest BP’s Liability Cap
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photo via flickr In a fight that showed the flaws in California’s ballot initiative process and the sheer nerve of PG&E, the state’s largest utility, clean energy and local control has won. Proposition 16, which would have change California’s constitution to force cities and counties to get the approval of two-thirds of their voters before using public money to invest in local energy projects or utilities. PG&E spent over $46 million on the effort, which would have ensured its monopoly. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can $46 Million Buy An Energy Monopoly? Not In California
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Today on Planet 100: BP’s Ad Campaign Backfires (Video)
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One of 14 baby mountain gorillas born this year in Rwanda and named during the Kwita Izina ceremony held in Rwanda in conjunction with UNEP World Environment Day. Photo courtesy of Rwanda Development Board. . For the sixth year running, Kwita Izina , or the baby gorilla naming ceremony, has been held in Rwanda. Fourteen baby mountain gorillas were named this year during the festivities, which were held in conjunction with
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To Save Endangered Baby Mountain Gorillas, Name Them (Slideshow)
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Just this past weekend, while riding with Toronto Architect Martin Kohn , we were discussing how Toronto’s elevated Gardiner Expressway would make a wonderful park, cycle route and perhaps even light rail corridor; of course it was a dream, nobody would propose such a thing in Toronto. Then along comes Mayoral candidate Giorio Mammoliti to propose exactly that! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Candidate for Mayor In Toronto Proposes Turning Elevated Expressway into Park
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