yardboidoroony /Video screen capture As a general rule, I tend to get nervous when I hear about a “permaculture song”. While permaculture design may have brought us such genius innovations as chicken tunnel cultivation and working swimming pools growing fish and algae , most permaculture-inspired music I have heard tends to lean too heavily on worthy sentiment and e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From the trap of high gas prices to energy costs triggering recession , the interconnections between our energy hungry society and its economic woes just keep cropping up recently. Elisa Wood over at Renewable Energy World has an interesting post on whether Occupy Wall Street is occupying the wrong street , arguing that the fossil fuel industries ar… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TheCulinaryGeek / CC BY 2.0 Dear Pablo: With the holidays approaching, I am wondering which pie is the greenest — pumpkin, apple, or pecan? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Festival /via I gave a talk at LA Green Festival on Saturday. It was an update on a guest post by my colleague Jerry Stifelman entitled Greenhushing Doesn’t Help Anyone: Why Green Businesses Must Speak Up , arguing that it is as important for green businesses and organizations to communicate effectively about the good they are doing as it is to actually do it. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Courtesy of Audubon /Promo image Birding can be fun. Except when you have to get up early and it’s cold. That’s why Birding the Net may be so appealing to Internet surfers out there, especially those still wearing pajamas late into the afternoon. Just tongue in cheek, folks, this is about a new social media campaign by Audubon called Birding the Net. Virtual birds have been released all over the series of tubes , and being the first one to catch all of them could net you...
Gage Skidmore via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 It’s official: Mitt Romney will now literally say anything he thinks the Tea Party wants to hear to prove that he’s a real conservative. He claims he’ll repeal Obama’s health care plan (which was modeled after his own), he’ll boot illegal immigrants out of the country ASAP (after employing them on repeated occasions), and now, he’ll deny the existence of climate change (despite signing
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Image: TreeHugger We’ve featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture. We’ve also got an artist catapulting LEDs into London’s sky to make new stars, the best of TreeHugger’s Flickr photo pool, a car made from bamboo, man ‘n cheese for adults, and more in our roundup of the best images on...
The Once-ler, a clear-cutting industrial polluter. Images courtesy of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures The Lorax , champion of the environment, is coming to the big screen in an animated 3D (or rather “Tree-D”) movie featuring Danny DeVito as the grumpy forest creature. Seuss took on consumerism with How the Grinch Stole Christmas and environmental concerns with The Lorax, which has had its share of controversy. What better way to get the message across...
infobae /via Way back in 1990, an episode of The Simpsons introduced Blinky , a mutated orange fish with three-eyes caught in the waters near the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, emblematic of mean Mr. Burns’ callousness towards the environment — and now, it seems, life has imitated cartoon. Recently, a group of fisherman on a lake in the C?rdoba province of Argentina reeled in a fish that had an extra eye. And it just so happens that that lake is a situated right next to...
