A few months ago Franklin Jones told me during an interview that he was working on a plan to help his bike-delivery business B-Line tackle the social aspect of sustainability that is frequently so difficult for companies to take action on. Yesterd… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Screenshot via YouTube Last night, the cast of ” The Sound of Music” reunited on “Oprah ” for the episode billed as the first time in 45 years that all the actors — including Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and the seven actors who played the Von Trapp children — appear together. But as we reminisced about our favorite scenes, songs, and moments from the film, a few unexpected lessons about eco-friendly living stood out. The Von Trapp family was actually pretty green, and we can l… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Maybe you’d like to dress up as a roller coaster this year? We can tell you how to do it — using materials you have at home! We also have news on a new study that says sleep makes you skinny, a toilet paper manufacturer getting rid of the tube, and more in The Week in Pictures. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: flickr hive mind When it comes to graffiti, a beaver is o.k. but a 12 foot high rabbit isn’t. That’s the decision by a local council in London who have decided that a huge graffiti rabbit has to go. They have deemed it a “blight on the local environment.” That’s a big disappointment to the elusive graffiti artist ROA who has been painting feral animals such as beavers and cranes on buildings around the area. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Five blog-years or so after this tree hug began, amidst an increasingly dark political backdrop, the gush of digital media had become almost paralyzing. And so, while Botox-laced pundits spoke over videos of angry-faces, I made my Wilderness Escape to a place where only Chickadees “tweeted” and where “roaming” means hiking. ” Good to go while the going is still good ” I thought – reminiscing about the dread-filled Cold War years of my childhood…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bear photo: AndyeMcee / CC . Cemetery photo: infomatique / CC Imagine a troubling future where heat waves and wildfires sweep across the globe,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Continue reading …Electric Audi A2 Claims Distance Record on Public Roads Thanks to Lithium Metal Polymer Batteries
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Image: DMB Energy Last Spring, I wrote about a DIY electric car that broke a world record by going 624 miles on one charge. As impressive as that was, it was done in a controlled environment, driving on a track at an average of 25 miles per hour. Now, a new record has been broken by two German firms, Lekker Energie and DBM Energy, with a converted electric Audi A2…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Stephen Childs Flickr, Creative Commons Today, a link soared to the top of the popular news aggregator Reddit , with the text ” This is, by far, the world’s coolest animal. Behold: The Mimic Octopus. It’s hardly an exaggeration — the mimic octopus is a cephalopod found in the waters around Southeast Asia, and it can literally shift its shape to mimic a number of other sea creatures, as you’ll see in the video below. All this attention, however, has some bio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Toyota The Circle of Battery-Life The more hybrid cars and battery electric cars are on the road, the more battery pack we’ll eventually have to deal with. It’s still a better problem to have than to have to deal with vehicles that burn significantly more non-renewable fossil fuels, with the waste products going straight in the atmosphere. At least the batteries are recycled, and consumers are being paid for their old batteries (which usually can still hold a lot of charge, so some might be
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