Expect a hundred comments about how climate change is a hoax, reminding us of how much snow fell this month, the non-shrinking glaciers or hacked emails. They will probably be from people who will not even bother reading Al Gore's long op-ed in the Sunday New York Times. If they did, they would find that he addresses all of these issues. To summarize it, he writes:

• If only it were true, it would be a great relief;
• The errors in the reports and the emails are embarrassing, but do not change the overall picture;
• Global warming puts more moistu...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  
  
  

Istanbul sidewalks aren't the sole province of pedestrians. Photo by Jennifer Hattam. Sidewalks in Istanbul, when they do exist, are often narrow, uneven, rutted, and frequently torn up entirely, forcing pedestrians into the street to dodge fast, erratically moving cars. So it doesn't seem all that hyperbolic to me when New York Times writer Michael Slackman describes Amman's "new, flat sidewalks that do not end suddenly, for no apparent reaso...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Treehugger leader Graham Hill uses a standup desk. TreeHugger founder Graham Hill uses a standup desk, a very simple board on two cabinets; I stayed in his apartment a few years ago and just loved it, and have wanted to convert to one ever since. I thought it would keep me more alert; now Olivia Judson of the New York Times writes that it is better for your health. She first describes the problems of sitting:

If you consider only healthy people who exercise regularly, those who sit the most during the rest of the day have larger waists and worse profiles of blood pressure and blood sugar than those who sit less.

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photo: Farm Sanctuary Last week the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by PhD-to-be philosopher-neuroscientist-psychologist Adam Shriver, from Washington University in St Louis, that really cuts to the heart of one of the deepest issues in the green movement: How does humanity best relate to the other animals on the planet? Shriver starts the assumption that, like it or not facto...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via Apartment Therapy It's a tough job, trying to turn conventional wisdom on its head every day for the New York Times, but that doesn't stop the Freakonomics team from trying, from spreading lousy advice and from not seeing the forest for the trees. Take the packaging of fruits and vegetables: James McWilliams writes that packaging makes food last longer and reduces food waste significantly, and that plastic is o...Read the full story on TreeHugger