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Tiga's Travel To Be 100% Carbon Offset With Atmosfair
We had a great time dancing to Tiga last weekend at Summercase Festival in Barcelona. Now we are even more fans of him having read that he decided to carbon offset all his future travels, similar to Radiohead, José Gonzáles, Pearl Jam or

Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Toilets
Turning waste into fertilizer in Boston We have written before about the need to change our waste water system that mixes black and gray water and flushes it away; commenters were not impressed and wrote "Composting toilets are NEVER going to make it into the main stream market. Debating it is silly." But the debate is happening anyways; Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow writes an excellent article in the Boston Globe on the subject. "IN A WORLD of rapidly diminishing resources, there's one we tend to overlook. It's easy to produce and extremely abundant. But instead of viewing it as an embarra...

The ?Real? cost of Bananas-Not in My Backyard
Stephen Brooks is the co-founder of Kopali Organics and a correspondent for Planet Green?s G Word. A common topic when discussing environmental issues is the acronym ?NIMBY?, meaning ?Not in My Backyard?. This simple phrase refers to the way many people around the world are not overly concerned with many...

Why the Arctic Won?t Keep Our Cars Running: Arctic Oil Reserve Potential a Qu...
photo by Baine via flickr A couple of months ago we reported on how the Las Vegas firm Arctic Oil & Gas announced that the Arctic could contain 400 billion barrels of oil, a figure that would be more than double the largest conventional oil field in the world, Saudi Arabia?s Ghawar?an oil field, which, despite Saudi claims to the contrary, is likely in terminal decline. Oil Potential in Arctic Revised Downward Well, not so fast: According new(er) data from the US Geological Survey, that 400 billion barrel figure is a littl...

New York Times Goes For The Mild Jalapeño Salsa: A Food Tracking System To Lo...
Predictably, today's NYT has an opinion piece calling for a half-hot sauce, a command and control-style food 'tracking system', to make more safe from contamination, food produced in places that lack even clean public water. Tracking the life cycle of Jalapeños, to avoid salmonella exposure in a restaurant 2 thousand miles distant is not only logistical and financial pile on; it is a way of locking locally produced food out of the entire US market place. Congress could relieve consumers and food producers alike with a comprehensive food-safety bill that would require a system for tracin...

Escape to New York
John Carpenter had it backwards; Snake Plissken's job is going to be keeping people out of New York, not in it. According to the New York Post, "The subprime crisis and the gas price crisis are accelerating the trend that people want to be in walkable urban areas," said Christopher B. Leinberger, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute, who is also a real estate developer. "It's been happening for the past 15 years and these trends have just accelerated it." Whereas New York City had the most housing starts in the nation last year, "If you look at what is happening in California you see the trend; in Los ...

TH Blog Love - Our Favourite Greens Of The Week
BBC Thread: Cottoning On by Joanna Yarrow "Fibres like cotton can be far from natural by the time they reach the shops. Joanna Yarrow exposes how the production process can be crippling to both people and their environment" Ecorazzi: French Vogue Peta Controversy by mlariviere "French Vogue is making a pretty big statement with a photo-spread in its August issue. Model Raquel Zimmermann is seen walking through the streets of Paris, wearing fur and leather while 'sticking it to PETA p...

The TH Interview: Paul Hawken?Blessed Unrest (Part Two)
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In part two of our in-depth discussion, Paul Hawken unpacks his new opensource, wiki-based Web entity, WISER Earth. He also offers up some details on Blessed Unrest the movie (and the remix), and brings it back to basics with the news no one wants to talk about. ::TreeHugger Radio Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click

Taking Back the Streets: Dumpster Diving in Style
London designer Oliver Bishop-Young's work "focuses on skips [Britspeak for dumpsters] and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste materials, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces." While he does wonderful things with dumpsters, turning them into everything from swimming pools to skateboard parks, he has a more serious ambition. ...

Johnny Depp's Green Home, Dark Knight's Eco-blunders, Natalie Portman's Green...
...Alas, Johnny Depp is going public with his eco-lifestyle. A few years back, the super-private actor and hater of Hollywood excess bought a 35-acre Caribbean Island he endearingly named "F*ck Off Island." Now he's planning to have his "leave me alone" paradise run on clean energy. According to the Huffington Post, the actor is third in line to receive a grid-independent solar hydrogen system from Mike Strizki, the man who created the first solar- hydrogen house in the United States. Via:ecorazzi...

Adam Stein on Vertical Farms: "Pie in the Sky"
Downtown Real Estate Too Expensive for Food Production? Vertical Farming has gotten us TreeHuggers excited on more than one occasion. From this diagonal tower to a lively debate in our forums, the concept of moving food production closer to population centres is certainly an intriguing one (not to mention reducing the geographical footprint of a farm). However, there are dissenters. And the ever thoughtful Adam Stein of TerraPa...

A Picture is Worth...Stolen Bikes
The story of Igor the bicycle thief in Toronto just gets more astonishing by the day; his concert pianist wife, "one of Canada's best accompanists," was just charged. He seems to be personally responsible for the City's reputation as the bike theft capital of North America; the picture shows just some of the 2,000 bicycles police have pulled out of houses, garages and warehouses. I will stop being churlish and asking why it took so long, and will just be thankful that it might be over. ::...

Great Ideas: Beach Cleanup
(Image: Takakuku) As the weekend approaches, I'm thinking of the beach and maybe going for a swim. The Pacific Ocean is a wonderful place to go on a steaming hot July day, on this side of it as well. What is not so great is the trash. It was worse a decade ago, and I recently found out why. Local volunteers are making a huge effort to get people to join beach cleanup campaigns along Japan's long coastline. Japan Environmental Action Network (JEAN) was founded by three Japanese women who wanted to do something about the trash they found on their trips to the ocean, and held its f...

Eco-Friendly Art or Not?
We thought that Anthony Gormley's winning proposal for the fourth plinth was the most ecological art possible: a different person standing on top of a column for an hour, all day, every day, for 100 days. Some commenters at TreeHugger disagreed since people had to travel to get to it and the structure itself wasn't green. But Martin Creed, another English artist, may have upped the stakes with Work No 850, his entry for the controversial Turner Prize. It consists of a runner sprinting through the ga...

Wanted: Green Electronics Blogger to Write for TreeHugger ($1000 Referral Rew...
Image via Sparking Tech We're looking for a full-time blogger who can cover the latest, hippest, greenest gadgets and electronics. We are looking for someone who has in-depth knowledge and passion about this topic, can identify and explore current and emerging trends, un...

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