Pig Business Exposes the Grizzly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry

Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater

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Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples – Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds

photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just passed the half million mark in terms of seed varieties saved. This makes it the most diverse collection of crop diversity anywhere in the world. …

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Starbucks’ Farmers Discuss the Impact of Fairtrade

Images by B. Alter It’s been Fairtrade Fortnight , and in celebration Starbucks has released a special new Fairtrade coffee from Rwanda.

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Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging

A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise

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Can Fish Stay on Restaurant Menus? Chef Dan Barber Explores Revolutionary Approach to Fish Farming (Video)

Photo via casers jean How do we keep fish on the menu?

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Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview

Photo via Goodlifer Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal. An ambitious undertaking in a city practically built on dining out

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Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview

Photo via Goodlifer Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal.

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Olympic Hockey Final Affects Water Supply, Canadian Economy

Globe and Mail Electrical or water systems are designed for peak loads, so it is interesting to see the effects of extraordinary events on infrastructure. It’s estimated that 82% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game between Canada and the United States, and that’s the mother of all peaks

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Should Cell Phone Towers Be Put on Residential Buildings?

Image: Lloyd Alter Between the upgrading of existing systems and the licencing of new carriers, the rooftop landscape of Toronto, Canada is changing rapidly as new antennae are added daily. While TreeHugger has discussed the question of cell phone safety many times, we are usually talking about the phone itself, where users have some control, rather than the base stations, where residents in apartment buildings with base stations on the roof do not. Is this exposure dangerous?

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Should Cell Phone Towers Be Put on Residential Buildings?

Should Cell Phone Towers Be Put on Residential Buildings?

Image: Lloyd Alter Between the upgrading of existing systems and the licencing of new carriers, the rooftop landscape of Toronto, Canada is changing rapidly as new antennae are added daily.

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