Mar 17
Last year, TreeHugger honored more than 170 winners across eight topics with our first annual Best of Green Awards. This year, we asked for your nominations and the response was overwhelming with hundreds of suggestions spanning dozens of categories.
Now, your suggestions, along with some of our own, have been compiled and it's time to vote for your favorite....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vote With Your Wallet
Mélanie, my fiancé, is working on her master's thesis. She tries to keep printing to a minimum, but many professors still require hard copies. When she ran out of paper, I was the one who went to buy more. I ended up buying the second cheapest kind of paper (made by Cascades, see pics above and below), and it reminded me that "100% recycled" should be just a starting point....
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Earlier today, I reported that there are still hopes a bipartisan clean energy bill will come to a vote in the Senate this year. I also mentioned that the primary mechanism of reducing greenhouse gas emissions was still being discussed, and that it may not end up being the cap and trade system we've all come to know and lo--tolerate. It could, allegedly, even be the unthinkable: a carbon tax! Most surprisingly, this is the solution preferred by the same Republican senator who is spearheading an effort to 
