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This Green Life - Not an RSS feed (yet), but a good read nonetheless. A regular series of articles on everyday choices you can make.

Adam Brock's Wild Green Yonder blog is a nice collection of stories and analysis from a sustainability perspective.

Treehugger

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The Week in Pictures: Rot-Proof Apple, Surprises at GreenBuild, Bacteria Lights Up Landmines, and More

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) shows that putting money into protecting wetlands, coral reefs, and forests is a better investment than gold, Lloyd visited GreenBuild 2009 in Arizona, and readers sent in photos of the one green object they just can't live without for our weekly slideshow. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddbal...Read the full story on TreeHugger

DNA Tests Uncover Sushi Fraud At Restaurants

Photo: Is that really tuna? (LFL16 on Flickr) The next time you order tuna at a sushi restaurant - watch out! - it may not be what you think it is. A team of scientists from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History conducting a genetic research project found that more than half of tuna ordered from 31 restaurants were "misrepresented" or selling endangered southern bluefin tuna. Some samples were not tuna at all, but escolar, a fish with fatty flesh that could pass as tuna but can cause diarrhea...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Climate Researcher Database Hacked

The King of Climate Deniers, Sen. James Inhofe Email communication has made us efficient--yes--but also short-tempered, imprudent at time, and sloppy. Need proof? Check out emails between climate scientists stored on servers at the University of East Anglia that showed not a plot but perhaps too much information-sharing on climate change between scientists. The server was hacked into and the emails--almost 20 years worth from prominent scientists--showed up on a Russian FTP....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Nature Iraq's 'Second Creation Story' (Video)

The Nov. 15 "60 Minutes" segment "Resurrecting Eden." Life hasn't been easy for the Ma'dan, or "Marsh Arabs," of Ira...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Spring/Summer 2010: Earth Creations

Earth Creations spring/summer 2010. Credit: Earth Creations Earth Creations, known for their clay-dyed apparel has been creating sustainable clothing for women, men, and children since 1996. The women's casual and sportswear line for spring/summer 2010 introduces two new hues; celadon (light green) and moonstone (beige), and is a casual cool collection of dresses, lightweight cardigans...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Sustainable Style

Rss feed from sustainable style foundation - look fabulous, live well, do good

Grist

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WorldChanging

Rss feed from Worldchanging: Bright Green

Inhabitat

Afrigadget

A collective blog about technological solutions to local problems originating in various parts of Africa.

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