Homegrown Rabbit is the Newest Trend in Urban Farming

Image credit: Good Backyard chickens have been the go-to for city-dwellers looking to produce their own hyper-local meat. But, as Good explains , rabbits can be a much easier animal to raise in a small space…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet

images via Designboom That is what French designer Josselin Zaïgouche says about his novel, if unusual, way to reduce power consumption….

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Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet

Hit Or Miss? The Light Tree Combines Solar Street Lighting and Planters

Image via Yanko Design This seems like a slightly more Alice In Wonderland, slightly less majestic version of Ross Lovegrove’s solar tree-like streetlights , but designer Omar Ivan Huerta Cardoso is giving fake-tree-solar-streetlighting a go with the Light Tree. This one, however, has a few real sprouts incorporated into the design, which is nice – but can that overcome some of the other problematic design flaws?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010

Image credit: PETA Much like Blythe’s excellent slideshow on PETA porn , I’m never quite sure what to make of PETA .

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PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010

Zic Zazou Makes French Music With a Beat

Image from the Roundhouse What is it about Europe and strange music? There was the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, and the Norwegian Ice Orchestra and the British busker who played his bicycle… And now we’ve got the French.

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The Great Politicization of Climate Change (Part 1)

Image via JCWinnie Okay, so it’s not exactly breaking news: climate change has been politicized for decades now. Which, as disturbing as it is, isn’t necessarily surprising

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Newly Discovered Wasp Species Enslaves Spiders

Photo via Northrup Spiders spend a lot of time

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When It Comes To Green, We Are Hypocrites

The red band tells it all: it is the percentage of those who say that they “believe the action is important, but do not currently engage in it.” The blue band represents those who “believe the action is important and currently engage in it.

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Urban Outhouse is the New Loo

Image from the Guardian Some TreeHuggers, mainly men, love to write about toilets and composting and poo . They should move to Britain: an estimated 40,000 houses in the UK still have outdoor toile… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Innovations for Fighting Plastic Waste

Image credit: Good Plastic trash, we know, is a serious problem . It’s refreshing to know that some innovative people are working on solutions….

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