Trees

Green Gifts That Keep Giving

Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Laptop, Backpacks, Hitachi, Green, Christmas, Eco-Friendly, Trees, Cell Phone, Pc, Recyled, German, Wear Your Music, External Hard Drive, Bracelet, Adapters, My Dutch Bike, Shopping, Central America, Plastic Bottles, Joan Jett, T-Shirt, Brazil, Sierra Magazine, Sap, Style, Jack Johnson, Silver, Bicycle, Gifts, Coasters, Eric Clapton, Charity, Tee, Chiclero, MP3 Player, Recycled, Battery Pack, Jewelry, Guide, Agate, Fashion, Bike, Amsterdam, Glee Gum, Voltaic, Holidays, Mac, Hemp, Solar, Gracious Home, Rockers, Packaging, Aluminum, Musicians, Sugar, Guitar Strings, Dutch, Hanukkah, Bags, Environment, Fashionista, Ben Lee, Bamboo, Electra, Rablabs, Gramicci, Simpletech, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Shopping for picky loved ones is difficult enough. Factor in your commitment to eco-sensitive products, and a holiday shopping mission can become as daunting as an unaided ascent up El Cap.

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New iPhone App Charts NYC Tree Census Info

Huffington Post | Richard Carnell | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Iphone, Green Living, iPhone Apps, New York, New York City, Trees, Green Technology, Green News

We all know that trees are good for the environment, but how good? With the new iPhone App, Trees Near You, created by Brett Camper for New York City...

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70,000 Orphaned Baby Redwood Trees Looking For A Good Home

Press Democrat | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Orphaned Redwoods, Orphaned Trees, Trees, Green News

Thousands of foot-tall orphaned baby redwood trees sit in rows in a Humboldt County greenhouse, products of the ongoing economic slump and changes in ...

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Republicans File Constitutional Amendment Limiting Bills to 5 Pages

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jim Inhofe, John Boehner, Jim Demint, Republicans, Conservatives, Global Warming, Sarah Palin, Trees, Comedy News
Paul Abrams

The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is over. Conservatives and the moderate have come together behind a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from passing any bill longer than five pages.

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Artists Benefit New York AIDS Orphans Oct. 15th

Chris Norwood | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Aids-Orphans, Art Benefit, Children's Health, Conde Nast Building, Trees, April Gornik, Health People, Milton Glazer, Garry Trudeau, New York News
Chris Norwood

New York City has the most AIDS orphans of any city in the Western world -- but you'd hardly know. The city doesn't even count them, much less try to assist them.

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Fall Leaves: 10 Places For Vibrant Foliage

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Leaves, Catskills, Aspen, Acadia National Park, Columbia River Gorge, Slidepoll, Autumn, Fall, Green Living, Fall Foliage, Trees, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lost Maples, Sonoma-County, Mount-Washington, Lake of the Ozarks, Berkshires, Nature, Best-Fall-Foliage-Pics, Green News

With the autumn season in full swing, this means we'll be seeing leaves change color and carpet the ground. Check out the best places from the around...

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Aspen Trees in the Breeze

Brigitte Mars | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Leaves, Poplar, Native American, Pioneers, Aspen, Autumn, Colorado, Fall, Quinine, Trees, Denver News
Brigitte Mars

As we move into this season of glorious golden aspen trees, we might wonder about the history, lore and uses of this plant, beautiful enough to cause one to take a long drive into the Colorado mountains to be amazed.

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Gingko Trees That 'Smell Like Vomit' Causing Trouble Nationwide

AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Ginko Trees, Trees, Smelly Ginko Trees, Green News

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness, surviving everything from road salt to an atomic bomb, but it may be undone by ...

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Great, Green Fashion Brands

Avital Binshtock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Hiking, Clothing, Patagonia, Cotton, Artisans, Green, Earth, Billabong, Timberland, Planet, Outdoors, Jewelry, Organic, Trees, Recycling, Etsy, Rei, Style, Diy, Environment, Sustainability, Fashion, Bamboo, Business Suit, Shoes, Menswear, Brands, Handmade Crafts, Silver, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Some of the most eye-catching baubles are made of stuff that had a past life--and many of them can be found on Etsy, a global network of artisans selling handmade works.

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Scientists Draw Electricity from Trees

Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Energy, Tree Energy, Alternative Energy, Green Technology, Trees, Green News

Guest Post From Dan Shapley From The Daily Green University of Washington scientists have discovered a new source of electricity: Trees. In an exper...

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Trees Expanding To New Areas In Response To Warming

BBC | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: New Ecosystems, Warmer Temperatures, Climate Change, Ecology, Trees Migrating, Global Warming, Trees, Green News

Trees around the world are colonising new territories in response to higher temperatures. From the US west coast to northern Siberia and south-east A...

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Yoga Levels: Meat Eaters are More Spiritual than Vegetarians

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Religion, Dalai Lama, Vegetarian, Hunting, Physics, Native Americans, Eckhart Tolle, Meat, Spirituality, Trees, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

Our world is made of different vibrations of pure energy and nothing else. How can it be better to eat one type of vibrating energy than to eat another type of vibrating energy?

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Tree Owners Could Reap Climate Bill Windfall

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Trees, Climate Bill, Green News

WASHINGTON — For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees. While U.S. families coul...

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Are Artificial Trees Better Than Real Ones?

treehugger.com | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Emission, Carbon Emissions, Green, Environment, Cardon-Dioxide, Trees, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Fake plants generally don't give off huge environmental benefits--especially when they're the plastic kind that just barely cheer up offices and waiti...

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Seedbomb: Raining Trees From The Skies

treehugger.com | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Deforestation, Seedbomb, Trees, Green News

The seeds are housed inside capsules made of artificial soil: they provide nourishment and moisture to the seed. As the sapling matures, the capsule d...

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Kabul's Garbage-to-Green Man

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghan War, Parks, Walid Tamim, Environment, Kabul, Civic Initiatives Program, Geoff Thompson, Tree-Hugger, Trees, Kabul-Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

You could bore everyone witless reading out a shopping list of the amenities Kabul lacks, and somewhere tucked into that endless list would be green space -- something Walid Tamim is changing.

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ARBOR DAY! Last Friday In April: Gift A Tree, Plant A Tree

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: When Is Arbor Day, Arbor Day Date, Arbor Day, Environment, Slideshow, Plant a Tree, Arbor Day 2009, Trees, Green News

Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday in April -- that's today! Typically on Arbor Day, people celebrate by planting a tree. Earlier this w...

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Obamas, Bill Clinton Plant Trees With Students At Park (SLIDESHOW)

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Planting Trees, Bill Clinton, Earth Day 2009, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, Earth Day, Environment, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Trees, Slideshow, Green News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday rolled up his sleeves and got his shoes muddy as he, Vice President Joe Biden and former President B...

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Will Recycled Fiber Toilet Paper Become the Next Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb?

Laurie David and Allen Hershkowitz, Ph.D | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Save Trees, Green Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Pulp and Paper Industry, Carcinogens, Cfl, Logging, Green Living, Pollution, Recovered Fibers, Fresh Water, Recycled Paper, Trees, Green News
Laurie David and Allen Hershkowitz, Ph.D

Toilet paper may not be the sexiest environmental issue, but it really is one of the most important.

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News
Peter Lehner

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Macedonians Plant Six Million Trees In Single Day

Reuters | Kole Casule | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Macedonia, Green News, Climate Change, Environment, Balkans, Deforestation, Forests, Global Warming, Trees, Green News

Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive i...

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Bette Midler's Hulaween Ball: A Great Investment

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Miami, Florida, Kathy Griffin, Economy, Prescilla Presley, George W. Bush, SNL Christopher Walken, Recession, Green Living, Sarah Palin, Trees, Virginia, Jimmy Buffett, Waldorf Astoria, Bill Blass, Gloria Gaynor, Pink, Jann Wenner, Michael Kors, Mona Lisa Smile, Bette Midler, Rolling Stone Magazine, Alec Baldwin, Bush Chernobyl, One Million Trees in New York City, Kelis, Hulaween, Hulaween Ball, Bette Midler Hulaween, Green News
Andrea Chalupa

Last night, at Bette Midler's annual Hulaween Ball in the Waldorf Astoria, the eco-diva raised $2-3 million for New York's Restoration Project. Ticket...

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Sarah Palin Enviro Hit List & Plastic Trees -- ZapRoot VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Co2, Co2 Emissions, Sarah Palin Vp, Carbon Emissions, Aerial Hunting, Climate Change, Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Sarah Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting, Aerial Wolf Hunting, Palin, Trees, Funny or Die, Green News
George Spyros

Arizona tests artificial CO2 filtering trees. Sarah Palin loves oil. Find ways to get rid of your junk mail. • ZapRoot gives a breakdown of the ...

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The High Price Of Taking Trees For Granted

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Co2, Harrison Ford, Climate Change, Green, Environment, Conservation, Trees, Conservation International, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

The CO2 emissions from deforestation are greater than the emissions from the world's entire transportation sector-all the cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships combined.

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Life Cycle: All That's Fit to Print

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Recycling, Environmental, Eucalyptus, Online, Green, Environment, Waste, Newspaper, E-News, Recycled, Reading, Paper, Trees, Ink, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

OK, it's just newsprint. But we journalists tend to get excited about it. More than 50 million newspapers hit stands and porches every morning in this country (double that in China). A tree falls. Many trees, really--200 million per year, just for newspapers.

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