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Recycling Therapy, or How to Train Your Parents to Use the Compost Bin

December 5, 2011

We greenies really want to convince others to adopt simple practices that, collectively, could make a big difference… and we can make ourselves crazy watching others go out of their way to stick to what they’ve always done. Maybe its time for some therapy.
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  1. Recycling Misconceptions – Part 1 – “All plastic containers with a recycling logo are recyclable.”
  2. Green Living Tips: Greening Your Garbage (Beyond Recycling)
  3. Pedal-Powered Recycling and Trash Pick-Up
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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)

October 20, 2011

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry’s attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I’d simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have …

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Have Fun On Your Bike with 50 No Handed, Easy to Master Tricks (Video)

October 3, 2011

Image via Vimeo screenshot.

There are lots of great reasons to ride a bike- it’s good for your health and for the environment, and it’s economical. But if you’re not having fun on your bike, what’s the point? To help you out, here’s a video from dire…

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Karner Blue Butterfly On Verge Of Extinction Promises Revenge

October 3, 2011

The Butterfly’s POV in the Onion: If I Go Extinct I Swear I Will Take As Many Humans With Me As I Can.

I think people always expected that when the time came for us to go extinct, we’d go down all quietlike–that just because we’re small blue butte…

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Dumb-Bell Cutlery Lets You "Eat Yourself Skinny"

September 21, 2011

Images credit Cheeky.com

TreeHugger is always promoting a healthy diet and lots of exercise, so how could we pass on this simple way of combining the two. Dumb-Bell Cutlery gives you a work-out while you eat, with 1kg (2.2 lbs) knifes and 2 kg. desse…

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Talk Like A Pirate Day: The Critical Relationship Between Pirates and Climate Change

September 19, 2011

Every year we be trottin’ out Wellington Grey’s seminal research on the in’erse statistical relationship between the number of pirates in the world and the climbin’ temperatures. We also be droppin’ all of our g’s and v’s to save pixels and energy. P…

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Daily Show Weighs in on Solyndra ‘Scandal’ (Video)

September 16, 2011

Image: Screengrab from Comedy Central

When you see a Daily Show clip on TreeHugger (or on any other site, really), you know what to expect: Jon Stewart ‘blasting’ a Fox News pundit or Republican politician for doing something ridiculous. Jon Stewart …

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Why Nobody Does Anything About Climate Change, As Explained by The Onion

September 7, 2011

Photo: out of ideas via Flickr/CC BY

Leave it to the nation’s premier fake newspaper to pen the best real article on climate change I’ve read in weeks. Unless you’re one of these people, you know the Onion’s schtick pretty well by now (satirical, zei…

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Don Cheadle Is Captain Planet…With A Surprise Plot Twist (Video)

September 1, 2011

Don Cheadle gives us a sneak peek at Captain Planet’s plans for Earth with a great sketch from Funny or Die. The planet-saving superhero arrives in time to save a few trees, but has some plans of his own. Heads up, the language is a bit NSFW, but if …

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Watch David Suzuki Get Punched in the Nuts (Video)

August 30, 2011

Image credit: CBC Laughs

David Suzuki is more used to winning prizes than receiving physical abuse. Nevertheless, one young TV reporter in Canada took it upon himself to punch the venerable David Suzuki in the groin. Why, you might ask? It is all, ap…

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