Photo: Moon Reagan Brrrrrrr…..if you think you’re cold, spare a thought for these 10 guys. They are attempting the fastest vehicle crossing of Antarctica in a biofuelled vehicle. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition will travel 3,600 miles across Antarctica. They have now reached the South Pole, more than half way into their journey. These adventurers are driving this futuristic looking ice vehicle and 2 monster trucks. They are doing it to show that wheeled vehicles are viab… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Will Burrard-Lucas In nature, some of the most incredible species come in the tinniest packages. While traveling in Madagascar recently, wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas happened upon this teensy-weensy Brookesia… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Mahalie Being a parent is tough. Even if you’re vigilant, feeding finicky kids can be nearly impossible. Even if you serve local, organic, whole foods at home, one birthday party with green icing and your kids scream for more of this addictive drug. Except a new study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine says that what a woman eats during … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A still from a video about trash pickers in Turkey. Image: ‘ Turkey’s Changemakers ‘ Before there were municipal sanitation workers emptying dumpsters into their big blue trucks , other garbage men gathered trash in Istanbul neighborhoods, picking out scraps of paper or empty bottles to resell. Those that continue plying their trade toda… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Screenshot from Mozilla FirefoxLive Marketing loves wildlife. Consider product’s like Apple’s Safari browser, and the Snow Leopard operating system. There was a call last year for Apple to help save real-life snow leopards . Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, must have been listening, because they’ve adopted real-life firefoxes. There’s such a thing? Yeh, and there’s eve… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images via reflex déco We always say that the greenest brick is the one already in the wall : that it’s better to revamp or refurbish an existing building than to build an entirely new one, even if the newcomer is as green as can be. Now the architecture firm Wepsi de Meuron Architekten has taken that logic to the extreme, restoring a 300 year old farm house in Central Italy that nearly burned to the ground in 1995. The building has been transfor… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo of the Year Reminds COP16 That People Are Waiting for Climate Change Solutions
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Continue reading …PETA Offers To Help Kansas Overcome Budget Deficit By Paying For Anti-Fishing Signs
December 4, 2010 No Comment
Pisces the constellation. Image credit: Aspin, 1825, via University of Oklahoma “History of Science” exhibit Hoping for a way to sustain the world’s fisheries? PETA has a better idea: end fishing. Immediately on reading the headline ” PETA offers state budget help with anti-fishing sign ,” which was published at State House Live , I thought PETA is like a technical rock climber grabbing for whatever ledge i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Residents of the Kaz Mountains (pictured) in Turkey are worried about the impact of gold mining. Photo: B@ni / Creative Commons . With few legal or political avenues open to fight what they say is illegal and environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned by two foreign firms, China’s Puraam and Canada’s Centerra Gold…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …New Chic Travel Accessories by Jendarling Offer Alternative to Plastic Garment Bags
December 4, 2010 No Comment
Photo: Jendarling Bags We’ve covered Jendarling’s organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection , comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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