Earth Matters – Shea Gunther

Rate My Rat allows you to rank your neighborhood NYC rats 31 Jan 2012, 9:10 pm

New York City transit workers want your photos of native rats. Click over to the Rate My Rat website to see some pretty gross rats — and for a chance at winning a free, unlimited MetroCard.

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Joel Makower: Green business maven shares his insights 31 Jan 2012, 3:23 pm

Makower, one of the most respected voices in green business, talks about greener corporations, what the government could be doing to foster more environmentally friendly businesses, and why he’s optimistic about the future.

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Win a trip to Brazil for World Environment Day 30 Jan 2012, 6:13 pm

Treehugger and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) are giving away a trip to Brazil to the winner of an environmental blogging competition that is now open for entry.

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Dive! The Movie: Dumpster diving against waste 24 Jan 2012, 2:21 pm

Americans waste almost 100 million pounds of food every year. Much of that ends up in the trash bin behind the neighborhood grocery store.

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We are losing quiet places 22 Jan 2012, 2:42 am

Human-created noise is slowly overwhelming nearly every part of the world. Is there any hope for the future of quiet places?

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10 green writers you should be following on Google+ 13 Jan 2012, 4:42 pm

Check out this great group of environmental writers worthy of following on Google+.

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Beautiful stop motion video: The Arctic Circle 10 Jan 2012, 4:41 pm

Take a few minutes and watch this gorgeously rendered stop-motion video telling the story of want, greed, and the price of desire.

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Time lapse: Watermelon art 10 Jan 2012, 4:39 pm

Watch as artist Vid Nikolic turns a humble watermelon into a stunning, if short-lived, work of art.

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Bacteria used in English sewers to eat through post-Christmas fat build up 5 Jan 2012, 9:52 pm

London sanitation workers now use bacteria to clear away post-holiday deposits of fat within city sewer systems.

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Is something being lost when top rock climbers bring their smart phones on difficult routes? 5 Jan 2012, 4:05 pm

A discussion is taking place within the world of high level rock and alpine climbing about the appropriateness of constant trip updates made possible by mobile devices and websites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Sodastream: Fantastic soda maker, terrible syrups 4 Jan 2012, 12:31 pm

The Sodastream home soda maker will save you money and help keep plastic bottles out of the waste stream — just stay away from the company’s Splenda-infused syrups.

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Good enough to watch any time of the year: Matt Damon is Santa Claus for clean water 3 Jan 2012, 10:00 pm

Watch this great video of Matt Damon trying to convince children of the importance of water when all they want to talk about is their Christmas lists.

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‘How It’s Made’ visits the Colorado Yurt Company 3 Jan 2012, 5:58 pm

See behind-the-scenes footage of the production of an episode of ‘How It’s Made,’ showing how tipis from the Colorado Yurt Company are made.

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How the Dutch got their bike on 3 Jan 2012, 3:36 pm

It would be easy to assume that the Netherlands has always been a bicycle-friendly country with policies that favor public transportation and human-powered transit, but it hasn’t always been this way.

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Disgraced former Republican Sen. Larry Craig takes new job lobbying against mine safety 3 Jan 2012, 2:58 pm

You might remember the former U.S. senator from Idaho as the anti-gay politician who was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom. He’s back in Washington as a lobbyist for Murray Energy.

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