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Greenpeace Urges Facebook to ‘Unfriend’ Coal (VIDEO)

Chances are that you have logged into Facebook today — maybe it’s open in another tab of your Internet browser right now — but at what cost to the environment? A new video from Greenpeace is urging to social-media … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Copenhagen’s SUVs (aka Cargo Bikes)

How Awesome is Copenhagen? Very Awesome! Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms has just released the third short film in his ‘Copenhagen Trilogy’, and it is great ! We’ve written a lot about

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Today on Planet 100: Monstrous Hurricane Igor More Like Hurricane Ogre (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Monstrous Hurricane Igor More Like Hurricane Ogre (Video)

Rapid Decline of Oldest, Thickest Arctic Sea Ice Tracked in New Study

Photo via Sustainablog Though a recent study called into question the current estimated rate of ice loss at the poles, there’s no question as that ice loss is a major problem, and a harsh reality in the Arctic. Case in point: a soon-to-be-released study scooped at Climate Progress reveals further evidenc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: The Scientific Sex (Video)

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Researchers Create Fuel Cell Powered by Rat’s Blood

Photo via likecool.com French researchers have created a fuel cell powered by rat blood that is more powerful and smaller than current pacemaker batteries. While this is not the first glucose-powered fuel cell, it is the first one to actually work inside a living body. The device was housed inside the rat for 11 days, and accessible via wires which stuck out the rat’s neck. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Don’t Just Simmer, Get Busy Getting to 350

Image credit: Victor Korniyenko The dog days of summer are over. For many, it was one of the hottest summers in recent memory . Arctic ice is thinning at an alarming rate. Environmental catastrophes from dirty energy continue to happen. And yet, climate skeptics and dirty-energy lobbyists have been working harder than ever to distort and delay . Needless to sa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Better Than Vacuum Elevators: The Balloon Elevator

Philip Proefrock at Inhabitat discovers vacuum elevators , a slow but energy-efficient way of building an elevator that will rise one atmosphere, or about 33 feet. He notes that they have no nasty hydraulic fluids like conventional elevators, (although many residential elevators are chain drive and don’t have hydraulics either). Nonetheless, it reminded my of a childhood favourite,

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Better Than Vacuum Elevators: The Balloon Elevator

Today on Planet 100: Steamy Metro Riders Heat Parisian Homes (Video)

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Sukkah City: Competition Winners Being Built In New York

Shim Sukkah tinder, tinker, Sagle, Idaho A sukkah is “an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice.” A Sukkah City of 12 finalists are being built in New York City in time for the Jewish Holiday of Sukkah next week…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sukkah City: Competition Winners Being Built In New York