Undulating Green-Roofed Hotel Opens in Norway

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The Arts Take Root in a Fishing Village With Studios by Todd Saunders

Long Studio. All images by Saunders Architecture We have been watching the career of Todd Saunders with interest; two years ago we called the Canadian expat living in Norway the Best of Green Young Architect

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Trolls Die Young: Nasty People Have Higher Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings via Wikipedia Dan Blankenhorn of Smart Planet was thinking of his commenters when he suggested that “trolls die young”, based on a study researchers of the US National Institute on Aging . They looked at 5,614 Sardinians from four villages, and found that “those who scored high for antagonistic traits on a standard personality test had greater thickening of the neck…

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From Felled Tree to Dining Room Table: Furniture That’s Sustainable and Unique

The team at Meyer Wells. Image Credit: Meyer Wells If you’ve ever been upset to learn that a tree you loved either fell or had to be chopped down, you’ll be glad to hear about Meyer Wells , the furniture company based out of Seattle

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While You Were Gawking at the Gulf Gusher: UN’s REDD Forest Preservation Deal Gets Major Funding

Though they may look like forests at first glance, palm oil plantations often have far lower biodiversity and store far less carbon than the genuine forests they replace. Photo: Achmad Rabin Taim via flickr

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D. Tobias Wong 1974-2010

So often in the past few years, if you saw a product designed with style, humour and an environmental message, the designer was Tobias Wong. It started on TreeHugger with the Sun Jar. …

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International Whaling ‘Peace Plan’ Moving Forward

Protestors in Australia outside the Japanese embassy, photo: Takver via flickr. A whaling ‘peace plan’ proposal attempting to bridge the gap between Japan, Norway, and Iceland, which all object to the international ban on whaling, and the rest of the world which abides by it is moving forward. BBC News reports that a proposal is quickly being finalized so that it can be discussed at the June meeting of the International Whaling Commission

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Thawing Permafrost Releasing Another Overlooked Greenhouse Gas

Sites in Canada, Norway, and Greenland (here) were examined.

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Norway Raises Hunting Quota to 1,286 Whales

Photo via cretananimalwelfare The government of Norway announced on April 1st, perhaps hoping the unseemly news would be lost amid the fictitious headlines of the day, that the country’s whale hunting quota would be raised to the highest level in 25 years: 1286 whales can be killed this season. The announcement has some animal protection gr..

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Project Earth Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week marks Carnival of the Green #215 , and it’s being hosted by Project Earth , a blog for environmental information and discussion, but also one for curriculum ideas by and for high school teachers and students. So head on over to this week’s Carnival which includes a round up of green news and events from the past week and your best green tweets, submitted by other bloggers and green sites. From 8 simple ways to save a thousand bucks to hiking in Norway to planting a garden for healt..

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