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2008: candlelight dinner with our new puppy Earth Hour is ten days away, Saturday, March 27. That is ten whole days for skeptics to call it a pointless exercise that doesn’t save any energy at all, and that lighting candles is worse for the environment,...
Photo via rumpleteaser China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of cutting off just...
Image credit: Friends of the Earth Back in 2008, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill posted on author Ian McEwan’s thoughts on climate change . At the time, the word was that McEwan’s next book would be all about climate change. Now that book...
All photos by Amarin Printing and Publishing Last year’s container house by Chuta Sinthuphan of Site-Specific was such a hit at a Bangkok home show that the firm was invited back to do another model. This time, Chuta tells us: “Because when...
photo: Danielle Scott via flickr. I hope I need not tell you that the development of the Canadian tar sands is an unmitigated environmental disaster . We’ve gone over that one at least a dozen times. But what we haven’t covered is the fact...
Image Source: DeclanTM Dear Pablo: What is the contribution to climate change by TreeHugger.com for each page view? If the reverse-psychology of this article’s title got you please keep reading, you will find it interesting. Past articles have...
Local indigenous dance group Rulan Tangen and Dancing Earth use costumes and sets made of recycled and organic materials. Photo via the Santa Fe Art Institute Blog . A year-long show focusing on the four elements is bringing well-known environmental...
Ranking of selected US states for dependency on coal for electricity production and for total consumption. Figure 1.- high-dependency states . . Image credit: USEIA data , graphic by J. Laumer Much has been written here and elsewhere of the fact that...
Credit: Mr. Thomas via Flickr. Scientists say too much carbon dioxide is bad for the Earth. And too much carbon monoxide can kill you. So why are researchers at the University of Michigan excited about turning CO2 into CO? Because the end product could...
