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Starbucks Stores Distribute "CO2 World" GOOD Sheet

If you're at the local Starbucks and find some knowledge dropped on you about atmospheric CO2, look no further than the good folks at the GOOD integrated media platform.   ... more

Green Power-Generating Gyms Becoming More Common

We have talked about it for years on TreeHugger- the possibility of workout equipment generating electricity instead of consuming it. Now the New York Times covers the subject, noting that: "Of course, riding a real bike rather than driving a... more

Solar Panels are Hot

Image: Noah Berger for the New York Times According to the New York Times, solar panels are now hot. Kate Galbraith writes how Glenda Hoffman had sixteen panels vanish from her roof in three separate burglaries. “I have a shotgun... more

Gisele Bündchen's new Campaign for Ipanema Supports Atlantic Forests

(Photo credit: W Brasil agency.) Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen has showed her interest in the environment before, first with a campaign that showed her wearing a water dress inviting to conserve this resource, and later with the launch of her... more

Public Transit: Buenos Aires Could Welcome Metrobus System next May

(Photo: Metrobus in Mexico city. By World Resources Institute.) With the goal of improving public transit in the city, Buenos Aires could have its first bus rapid transit system, also referred to as 'Metrobus', in May 2009. The announcement was... more

More Than Pretty Heirloom Tomatoes: Saving Seeds Critical to Combatting Climate Change

The photographer's grandfather had saved these seeds in the 1920s. They were discovered last year and planted in a greenhouse. Photo: Stefan Jansson Local food, local varieties of plants and the entire locavore movement are reoccurring topics here at TreeHugger.... more

Chicago Unveils New Climate Change Plan

Image source: Chicago Climate Action Plan Mayor Richard M. Daly laid out a plan to cut Chicago's emissions to 3/4 of 1990 levels by 2020, announced yesterday in an ambitious and comprehensive Chicago Climate Change Action Plan, reports Chicago's NBC5.... more

Associated Food Stores Takes Close Look At Energy Efficiency

Associated Food Stores is performing energy-efficiency audits at its member locations. It’s also retrofitting lighting at five AFS corporate-owned locations in Utah. The lighting upgrades at two Dan’s and three Macey’s locations are estimated to save AFS about 1.7 million... more

Rock On, Greenly: Carbon Offset Ticket Option a Success at 2008 Music Festivals

Photo by Agaton Strom Green Ticket Success This year, when buying tickets to Lollapalooza or Austin City Limits—two of the most celebrated annual music festivals in the nation—purchasers were offered the option of adding a “Fan Tag,” to the event... more

12-Year Old Boy Will Save the World! His Solar Cell Absorbs 500 Times the Light of Existing Cells

photo: Ricardo Wang I don’t really have much on this one yet from the technological side so perhaps the save the world part is premature, but William Yuan, a 12-year old boy from Beaverton, Oregon, has developed a new 3D... more