Today on Planet 100: Arctic Methane Leak (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Arctic Methane Leak (Video)

Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks

Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks

Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products

World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit: Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for recent global volumes).

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Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products

Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity

photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:..

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Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity

Study Finds Large Animals in India are Facing Extinction Even in Protected Areas

The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928. Now, there are more than 500 in the country ranging from dedicated tiger and bird reserves to more general areas intend to protect habitats rich in biological diversity.

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Study Finds Large Animals in India are Facing Extinction Even in Protected Areas

Are You Being Lied to About Recycling?

Image credit: Ivan Prole Look at the bottle of juice you just drank. The detergent you’re going to use. The plastic backer on the desk calendar.

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Are You Being Lied to About Recycling?

Big Oil Launches Campaign to Protect Gov Subsidies, Uses Stock Photos AGAIN

Guess who’ll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it’s Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly ‘real’ Americans were taken?

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Fabulous AW10 Fashion Week Highlights From Around The Blogosphere

It has been another fabulous season for ethical fashion and all of us green bloggers are delighted to see the ethical designers’ collections going from strength to strength. From New York to London to Paris there have been some truly desirable fashion forward pieces for Autumn Winter 2010.

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Fabulous AW10 Fashion Week Highlights From Around The Blogosphere

The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage

Image credit: Funny or Die TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before , and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores , but we’ve never done much on electric chainsaws. I’m thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface dons his cruelty-free mask and pays us a visit

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Cisco Saving $24 Million With Packaging Diet

Photo via casers jean We’re fast to post about packaging failures, which are all too common.

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Cisco Saving $24 Million With Packaging Diet

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