Green Tomorrow

Photo credit: MontanaRavenSoil erosion runs far deeper than we might think. In fact, we could be looking at a “silent global crisis”

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Over the past year we

The car-free lifestyle is still far from trendy in this city of 20 million people where most people still yearn for a car but can’t afford one. Yet traffic and poor air quality are increasingly determinants in the nascent but growing culture of walking and biking, despite the inherent danger in doing either.
Those brave souls [...]

We believe in miracles, since you came along, you sexy TreeHugger Forums…
1) Forums user saxon68 thinks (as TreeHugger does) that “biofuels, hailed by many as the green solution to offset a coming oil shortage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are not a cure-all solution,” because, in part, they “requ…

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We now know that chronic exposure to diacetyl, the artificial-flavoring chemical in microwavable popcorn, causes a debilitating and sometimes-fatal lung disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans, or “popcorn lungs.” But what’s an armchair cinephile with a jonesing for lightly puffed snacks to do?
It actually couldn’t be easier (or less inexpensive) to make your own [...]

We showed a Canadian icebreaker in our earlier post on the battle for the melting north; here is the US Coast Guard Healy, which according to Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal is “are gathering the data legally required to extend national territories across vast reaches of the mineral-rich seafloor usually blocked by [...]

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Quick fact: Recycling materials can take as little as 5 percent of the energy you’d wind up expending if you produced them from virgin sources, as is the case with aluminum, which means you not only conserve already-limited resources, but you also curtail potential atmosphere-warming carbon emissions