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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Think Act Vote and UK-based ethical fashion label, Komodo have launched a t-shirt design competition with the goal of inspiring people to engage in politics through fashion. The campaign coincides with the coming election in the UK and Katharine Hamnett -- the Katharine Hamnett who created the first slogan tee in the '80s -- will select the top design. She says, "Thousa...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....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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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 prevent the EPA from regu...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Your Solar Roof or Micro Wind Turbine Produces Excess Power?
The Californian legislature just passed a new bill that would increase the amount of power that utilities can buy from people who produce power at home (mostly solar panels, and small wind turbines). The current law limits this to 2.5%, but once the governor has signed the new law, this will be raised to 5%. “The Assembly adopted the bill on a 53-1 vote. Rachel Arrezola, a spokeswoman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the governor intends…Read the full story on TreeHugger
