
Lynn Thanks for asking this, TreeHugger. Our new initiative Transition Bedford has a major event planned in May: "Bedford 2030: Fall in Love with Your Future". It will be a town-wide community event to create solutions to peak oil and climate change at a grass-roots level. FB folks in this part of UK please join our FB grou...p Transition Bedford. Others, please find or start a Transition Town in your part of the world! The Transition Town network wiki is at http://transitionnetwork.org

TreeHugger What is your community doing to fight climate change? Take a picture and tell us your story!
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Birdbath Bakery has been called New York's most sustainable bakery. Photo via Birdbath Bakery You don't have to be named the greenest in the world like Freiburg, Germany or smashed by a tornado in order to earn a green

TreeHugger National Geographic is offering an external hard drive that comes preloaded with every issue published since 1888!
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Image via Crunchgear Well, for now anyway. National Geographic has put every single one of its issues onto one external hard drive. It's 120 years of National Geographic magazine issues (1888 to 2008) in digital format - including every

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Breaking: Senators Say No Climate Bill in 2010! Citing that Democratic senators are exhausted from passing health care reform, reports claiming that there will now be no climate bill in 2010 are surfacing. Politico exclaims Senate Democrats to W.H.:

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Photo via Steve aka Crispin Swan @ flickr If you live in the kind of place where pigeons and robins are pretty much de riguer for bird sightings, then you're missing out on a whole world of birds that

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A "man" in nearby Luzerne County shot and killed a loved and gentle German Shepherd apparently because of an ongoing petty feud between neighbors.
Please help bring a just punishment for this cruel and heartless act by reading and signing this petition;
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/164/JUSTI CE-FOR-KIERA

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Photo: Imagine Surfboards Imagine make surfboards from a 100% recycled, (and recyclable*) polystyrene foam they call, very informatively, B-XP3. Apparently this particular foam, besides being made as a waterproof extrusion, off-gasses 50% less volatile organic compounds (VOCs), during manufacture,

TreeHugger Saab has an interesting and innovative history. First to offer seatbelts, shock absorbing bumbers, first to use wind tunnels to streamline their design and more.
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Drag coefficient: 0.30. all images from complex.com Mike is away so the rest of us get to play with cars. I find them generally boring, and very much alike, variations on a theme. Now that they are on the

TreeHugger Will be interesting to see how this impacts sea life.
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Say that again? Speak up, I say. Photo via Moon Battery Of all the consequences that rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions have wrought, this has to be one of the stranger ones: the world's oceans are getting louder.

TreeHugger Have you seen Avatar? Planet Green has a good post on 4 green lessons one could learn from the film.
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There's more to James Cameron's epic adventure film than a huge budget and groundbreaking special effects; don't miss the green message.

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Responses to the question: 'Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?' Image credit: Skeptical Science - data from Doran (2009) 'Science is not a democracy!', 'Consensus means nothing!', 'A majority once

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HomeLights is bringing you the latest news about LED
http://homelights.blogspot.com/2009/12/l ightsavers-during-climate-summit-in.html

TreeHugger Doubtful we'll see such a sweeping law here in the US, but this new requirement in China is worth paying attention to.
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Photo via China Daily China's mobilization on the clean energy front should be news to no one--its ambitious renewable standard goals (20% of total output by 2020) and rate of renewable development over the last few years have been

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Photo: Cburnett (Wikipedia) Threatened by habitat destruction and a lucrative black market trade in skins, bones and other body parts, a little bit of justice for tigers everywhere was meted out last week when villagers who killed and ate China's



















