Image credit: Rhys Alton , used under Creative Commons license. There’s no doubt that religion and spirituality can be a divisive subject. I’ve asked before whether green religion will sink us or save us , and suggested that preaching at people is not the best way to win green converts . A similar debate seems to be hotting up within the T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Must We Embrace the ‘Sacred’ to Survive Peak Oil?
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For the last four years, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been fighting off the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and other certification programs in their attempts to have their programs recognized by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and get that single LEED point for sustainably harvested lumber. The proposed changes that would have opened up the certification were put to a vote and the results are in: The status quo remains.
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Rumble In The Lumberyard: FSC Wins This Round
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All images via www.pokodesign.com We love this join-the-dots co-creative design for a New Year’s greeting card by our very own TreeHugger Barcelona correspondent Petz Scholtus . When not reporting for these very pages Petz is a product designer with a passion for communicating environmental issues through her work. She has created the We Need More Trees card to celebrate our imminent entry into 2011, which ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We Need More Trees: Greeting Cards by Petz Scholtus Celebrate 2011 Year of the Forests (Interview)
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Zebras are naturally barcoded. Photo via wwarby We’ve heard of barcoding trees to prevent deforestation , and tagging animals to track them for scientific purposes is an everyday practice. But what about barcoding the DNA of all animals across the planet to protect them from illegal poaching, trapping or over-hunting? The International Barcode of Life project aims to do just that by assigning a barcode to each individual speci… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Naaman Saar Stavy / Creative Commons Some great news for gorillas and conservation: WWF reports that a survey conducted in the Central Africa’s Virunga Massif –that’s a region containing three national parks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda–has found that the world’s largest population of mountain gorillas has increased by more than 25%… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mountain Gorilla Population Increases 25% in Central African National Parks
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Photo: lululemon athletica /Flickr, Creative Commons Scientists at the University of Bolton in the U.K. are developing a textile fiber, called hybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric material , that absorbs energy from its wearer’s body movements and the surrounding elements, including the wind, rain, and sun — Captain Planet would be proud!
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Until this point, despite having the environmental impact and energy consumption of a wealthy nation, China has maintained that it is a developing nation and as such would not submit to any binding emission reductions. Photo: Ricky Qi / Creative Commons . Some truly interesting news coming out of the COP16 climate talks in Cancun:
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China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!
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Olin Studio ARC Competition; PDF here Designboom reminds us of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, , to promote “innovation in feasible, buildable context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe, efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically responsive wildlife crossings.” It is proposed for Vail, Colorado,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wildlife Crossing Competition Finalists Propose Amazing Bridges
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photo: Bernard Pollack / Creative Commons I’ve asked before why so many people hate environmentalists . But, to be fair, the hate runs both ways. There are plenty of greens who like nothing more than to point the finger at eco-villains —you know, those planet marauding evil doers who hate t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Anti-Environmentalists Don’t All Hate the Environment
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image credit wikivisual TreeHugger has published a lot of posts about absorption refrigerators; they are common in off-grid situations and because they run on heat, they are possibly key to the holy grail of solar powered air conditioning . Jennifer Ouellette explains on io9 that Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard developed and patented an absorp… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Einstein Invented A Fridge That Runs On Heat, Had No Moving Parts
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