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The TreeHugger Zeitgeist: November

Zeitgeist means “the spirit of the age.” What is the spirit that is catching our readers? We start a new feature where we review the most popular posts of the month, as calculated by Google Analytics. We add a little frisson of fun by scoring the month, counting the number of posts that get more viewers than our perennial favourite, How To Green Your Sex Life, that keeps ‘em coming month after month. November scores 5.

The most popular post was Use Electricity Wisely; a one-liner that said “”We don’t think much of ugly, power-sucking…

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6 Year-Old Solves Climate Crisis!

If listening to a whole lot of people talk about solving climate change is wearing thin on you too, take a look at this video put together by the group “EnoughsEnough” that gives a child’s-eye view of how easy solving the problem could be in theory.

Of course nothing in the real world is ever as easy to accomplish as it sounded way back in the first grade, but this vid is definitely worth watching. It’s really cute.See Video

See also:: Children Already Be…

Clevr: The Last Tea “Bag” You’ll Ever Use

Reminscent of the Teastick (no spaces), the Tea Stick is a clever spring-loaded gadget perfect for brewing up a cup of tea without the muss and fuss of a pesky tea bag.

Many tea aficionados will tell you that loose-leaf tea is the only way to go when brewing yourself; now you can do it in spring-loaded style and never have to bother with the waste of individually-wrapped tea bags. Sure, each tea bag doesn’t contribute a huge amount of trash to the waste stream, but why do it if you don’t have to?

We aren’t the only ones who liked the looks of this; it’s available

Mexico On Par with Costa Rica in Conservation Investment

As we’ve noted before, the building boom along Mexico’s coasts does not bode well for biosphere reserves and threatened species in this country of incredible biodiversity. But we were surprised to learn that Mexico now invests close to four dollars per hectare in conservation, matching Costa Rica, the highest spender in Latin America, in terms of public funds spent on preserving sensitive and valuable ecosystems. The news came from Mexico’s Commission on Natural Protected Areas, which has received a boost from President Felipe Calderon’s administ…

Most Huggable: Going Garbage Free, Ethical Clothing in London, Recycling as a Green Myth + More

Currently, we produce more garbage than stuff, but it doesn’t have to be that way; read up on going zero waste.

Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their information technology.Ekyog, the French ethical clothing label

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Flux Launches Self Service Product; Full On Ning Competitor

Flux, a new social network joint venture between Viacom and Social Media, had a limited launch in September.
The platform is the cornerstone of Viacom’s social network strategy. Instead of building independent networks for MTV and its hundreds of other brands, they’ve built a distributed platform that shares users, infrastructure and content, but allows for distinct [...]

Zopa To Launch In U.S.

U.K.-based peer to peer lending startup Zopa is gearing up for their U.S. launch. Reports of the launch have been circulating for some time (WSJ), but now it seems only days away. The service will be available at us.zopa.com, but is currently under password protection.
Zopa’s peer to peer lending service differs from U.S. rivals by [...]