Image: Abigail Batchelder via flickr Barely a week after the U.S. Senate failed, because of industry influence, to ban BPA in baby bottles and limit its use in other children’s products, the EU passed a very similar ban that will go into effect next year…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles
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Image: Ari Moore via flickr Apparently New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg shares at least some of the concerns about natural gas drilling—known as hydraulic fracturing , or fracking—that communities and environmentalists have about its safety. He… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mayor Bloomberg Warns Against Fracking in Delaware River Basin
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Image credit: Woods End Laboratories Despite claims that biochar could offset 12% of human carbon emissions , and boost agricultural production in the process, others are not so sure. Whether it’s the author of the biochar solution saying it’s not a solution (OK, not a complete solution), or
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Biochar or Compost – What’s Best for Soil Quality? (Video)
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Music And Food Are Inseparable at Localmotive Farm
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The Infrastructurist points us to Matt Yglesias, who posts a chart comparing the energy use of different transport modes in BTUs per passenger mile. He notes: Today there seem to be almost 30 flights daily between Seattle and Portland. Clearly a lot of people are making the trip. If you built a high-speed rail connection, a lot of people would take tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: World Economic Forum , Flickr, CC Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea — there’s little disagreement about that , especially in environmental circles. For starters, it’s an incredibly inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Ethanol
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Photo via D’Arcy Norman , Flickr We all get our share of e-mail spam. One that keeps showing up in my InBox offers the opportunity of a lifetime: Buy an Arizona landfill. Fill it up. The more waste you bury, the more money you make. For the Un-TreeHugger who has everything? And just in time for the holidays! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Super Gift: Buy an Arizona Landfill
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Image credit: Encore /The Purpose Prize From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder , through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online , to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources , a return to sustainable farming does not mean a rejection of what technology has to offer. Inspired by the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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$3k Website Connects Farms to Restaurants, Creating Virtual Coop
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TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prize… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More
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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Most Powerful Vegans (Video)
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