For some time we’ve had our eyes on proposals to build a monumental wall of trees across Africa to hopefully stop or at least slow the Sahara spreading southward. Well, the Great Green Wall has been given the green light. As Mongabay reports, in total about $3.1 billion has been now promised to fund the project. The plan is to plant a nine mile wide swath of trees crossing from Djibouti in the east, through Ethiopia, Eritrea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Worldchanging Book, AlexSteffen.com Time flies. It’s already been 5 years since WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century came out (our review can be found here ). A lot has happened since then, so Alex Steffen (pictured above, a co-founder of WC and the editor of the book) and the WorldChanging team have updated their “user’s guide for the 21st century”: Worldcha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Dave Stokes / Creative Commons Since the beginning of TreeHugger posts on the intersection of environmentalism and religionM , on how the different spiritual traditions of the world are embracing more ecologically-friendly behavior , h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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French fashion house Christian Dior says it is firing famed designer John Galliano after an online video showed him praising Adolf Hitler. (March 1)
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Photo credit: lagohsep / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Care2 , the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has announced that it will launch a massive, long-term study, to help learn if oil spills and exposure to crude oil and dispersants affect physical and mental health of
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io9 has a fun list on how to turn your house into a home of the future . It includes some TreeHugger-friendly ideas like atmospheric domes so you can grow food, lights and music that follow you room to room and turn off when you exit, and biotech climate control systems like living roofs. It’s a really fun list — what would you add to your home? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image from Ikea Last week we showed some of the hottest and best nominees from the annual Brit Insurance Design Awards. From over 100 fabulous and not so fabulous objects, seven semi-finalists are chosen. Then on March 15 the big winner is announced. Keeping up with TreeHugger’s past record of choosing the successful ones , it is with great pride we announce that once more we have nailed it, sort of. The
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Image credit: Alex Wiebe , used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote that being carless in America is like second-class citizenship , it stirred up quite a debate. In between the calls for me to “go back to Britain”, and the firm metaphorical nods of agreement from many carless Americans, commenter Vboring made an assertion that “the fact that neighborhoods without sidewalks exist implies that people don’t value si… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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