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Best of Inhabitots: Dr Alan Greene Talks About the Real Facts About Toxic Chemicals and Your Family’s Health

Inhabitots recently interviewed Dr. Alan Greene , a renowned pediatrician and father of four who has authored several books about raising green families. (Would you expect less with a name like that?) Here, Dr. Greene answers questions about topics that weigh most heavily on parents’ … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? Balloon Blamed for Rio de Janeiro Fire, National Design Award Winners, and More (Slideshow)

Kemp’s Ridley is a critically endangered species of sea turtle that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. This week a source revealed that BP has been keeping rescue teams from getting to the turtles and has even been burning them alive, along with other animals. In other green news, the Dalai Lama urged the Sea Shepherd to use non-niolent methods to stop whaling; Chevron, who’s drilling a well in 8,530 feet of water off the coast of Newfoundland, said that a relief well isn’t necessary (even though a relief well could probably have avoided the Deepwater Horizon disaster); and it’s National Design Awards time, when the Cooper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? Balloon Blamed for Rio de Janeiro Fire, National Design Award Winners, and More (Slideshow)

The Week in Pictures: Pac-Man Ship Eats Oil Spills, World Cup Carbon Footprint, Pedal-powered Porsche, and More (Slideshow)

As BP’s Gulf oil spill continues to spew, the internet has helped showcase some of the more interesting ways an oil spill can be cleaned up. For example, a pac-man-esque oil recovery vessel and Kevin Costner’s machine that can separate oil and water–BP just ordered 32! The Upright Citizens Brigade explores what happens when BP spills coffee and the video is pretty hilarious (unlike the actual spill in the Gulf of Mexico). And in other green news, VW has just unveiled the new 2011 Jetta with a hybrid model coming in 2012; A new study estimates a carbon footprint of 2,753,251 tons of CO2 from the 2010 World Cup; and NASA says that the Moon may have more water th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Pac-Man Ship Eats Oil Spills, World Cup Carbon Footprint, Pedal-powered Porsche, and More (Slideshow)

Best of Inhabitat: Last-Minute Green Father’s Day Gift Ideas

+ Help ol’ Dad go green and save some green with our “eco”-nomical gift guide for every kind of father, from a stylish roadster bike to an energy-saving remote . + Is your poppa a dapper kind of guy? Here are 14 eco-friendly … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Ecouterre: Green These Summer Eco-Fashion Trends

Photo credit: Doucette Duvall + Find your happily ever after with these prints charming . This sustainable array of eye-popping prints and blistering colors that will banish even the foulest of foul-weather doldrums. + Ahoy, mateys! You don’t need a yacht (or an eye patch) to set sail with this season’s

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Daily TreeHugger Newsletter Reaches 40,000 Readers

image: Shorpy Every morning at 0830 EDT we are out there on the streetcorners peddling our daily newsletter. Last February we had 26,000 subscribers; Today I am pleased to announce that we delivered 40,006 copies of the best of the previous day’s TreeHugger, distilled down to tiny tasty bits for easy breakfast consumption. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Behind the Scenes With First Divers to Explore BP Oil Spill Underwater, ‘Top Kill’ Attempt is Working, 8% of Sunscreens are Safe, Fish with Hands Discovered, and More (Slideshow)

It’s been over a month since the $560-million oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk and vast quantities of oil are still leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. Yesterday morning U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told the media that BP’s “top kill” effort has “stabilised the wellhead” and that pressure coming from the well is now “very low”. On Monday, along with ABC’s Sam Champion, chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green Philippe Cousteau dove in the oil spill; they were the first to do so. Aside from BP … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Behind the Scenes With First Divers to Explore BP Oil Spill Underwater, ‘Top Kill’ Attempt is Working, 8% of Sunscreens are Safe, Fish with Hands Discovered, and More (Slideshow)