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Protesters Create "Oil Slick" on Major Roads, or Did They?

Image credit: Climate Camp From beautiful images of a climate camp protest in Wales , to skepticism over protesters’ targeting of offset companies —the ever growing Climate Camp movement never fails to get a reaction—both here on TreeHugger and elsewhere. But it seems the latest Climate Camp protests have garnered atten… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Muslims Fight Food Waste During Ramadan

Istanbul during Ramadan. The illuminated writing between the mosque’s minarets reads “Believers are brothers.” Photo by laszlo-photo via Flickr. When the evening call to prayer rang out as I went to board the tram the other night, the platform attendant called out to me, stepping out of his booth to offer me a date — the traditional food used to break the fast during Ramadan . Onboard, a man carried a large bottle of water and a plastic… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Smallest Hydroponic Grow Box: Twitter Enabled

Image credit: PocketGrow Whether we are talking about open source, automated garden monitors , more efficient industrial monocultures , or discussing whether soilless farming can be organic , many of our readers seem to have a strong dislike of overly techno-fix approaches to growin… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Hauling Your Own Trash Green?

Image credit: RocketJim54 (Creative Commons) When I took up the rural green life (elitist or not) , there was an inevitable trade-off between bee keeping , large-scale composting , mushroom growing ,

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Today on Planet 100: Microbes Come to BP’s Rescue (Video)

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Geese Bounce Back Despite NYC’s Mass Kill Plan

Photo: via unforth (Flickr) Prompted by 2009’s bird-related crash-landing of an airplane onto the Hudson River, last month New York City officials went ahead with a plan to euthanize more than 170,000 Canadian geese, out of a statewide population of 250,000. With recent statistics showing that bird strikes are on the rise (and an

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Updated US Federal Trade Commission Guideline May Nullify 100’s of Existing Green Labels, Product Claims

Way too many green labels . Image credit: Google image search excerpt. The US FTC is close to updating its original “green guides” which have been the sole legal basis for examining and challenging the validity of various green marketing claims or product “green marks” There is an obvious need for this update, as more green product claims and labels have popped up every year since TreeHugger.com was founded (see links below the fold), many of which are of questionable … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Collecting Electricity from Thin Air Might One Day Become Reality

Lightning shows us just how much electricity can accumulate in the atmosphere. Photo: Wikipedia , CC. Ride the Lightning It’s still just a dream, but scientists are slowly getting us closer to the day when we might be able to collect electricity from thin air – or rather, humid air – in the atmosphere. They’re not thinking of harnessing the power of lightning like in Back to the Future (where would you store such a massive influx of electricity?), but rather of collecting electricity from water vapor and dust particles. How would that work?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: The Great Australian Greenslide (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Green Houses of Worship (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Green Houses of Worship (Video)