photo: Samenwerkende Hulpoganisaties via flickr Though it’s de rigueur to say that any single weather event can’t be directly linked to climate change, and it’s true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave were caused by human-caused warming? Could the victims hold anyone responsible and sue for damages? That’s the question asked in a recent

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Photo via Gangajal Seeing as how it’s Friday, I figured I’d just go ahead and rain on everyone’s parade a little bit: Climate change and deforestation are going to more or less wipe out tropical rainforests as we know them in about 90 years. Yes, according to a recent study, 80% of rainforests — which hold a full half of the world’s plant and animal species — stand to be destroyed by climate change as soon as 2010. Happy Friday!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Change Could Destroy 80% of World’s Rainforest by 2100

+ Turn an empty breakfast-cereal box into a series of ramps for dropping and rolling marbles . All you need is some shears and tape! + A wicker basket gathering dust can be repurposed into a pretty bird feeder for hanging on a tree in your backyard. + Capture Mother Nature’s beauty through the shifting seasons by crafting a handmade nature book with … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Inhabitots: Top 7 Green DIY Projects For Kids

Image via Encefalus Any respectable blogger working today is at least aware of the many social media websites that contribute to our articles reaching a wider audience: Reddit , Yahoo Buzz, Stumble Upon, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Digg . Digg is the most powerful ‘social media’ website — stories that get submitted there stand to be viewed by more people than anywhere else. Yet over the years, as I wrote story after story here at TreeHugger, I started noticing a trend — if my post directly concerned c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Does Digg Hate Global Warming?

When Earth First! recently protested a large scale wind farm in northern Maine it raised a few eyebrows around the TreeHugger virtual office. John Laumer worryingly wondered if “the protesters and their supporters thought seriously about climate change before they embarked on the protest. The lynx there are anxious to protect from wind power development need more than wilderness; they need a climate suitable for the eco… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Earth First! Maine Anti-Wind Power Protest Keeps Green Movement Honest

Photo: RichardMasoner , Flickr, CC. This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Since a car-crushing accident in 2006, our family went car-free first in Gothenburg, Sweden and now Portland, Ore., and I thought I’d never look back. But a gift horse … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How a Free Car Made Me Love My Bike

photo via 350.org By now, most people have heard this story. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House, but when the Reagan Revolution swept into power a few years later, Reagan famously had the panels taken down. Well, it’s a new day, and it’s high time for those panels to go back up. Solar power in the U.S. is rapidly growing, with 91 MW coming on line la… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TAKE ACTION: Join With 350.org And Ask Obama to "Put Solar On It"

Photo via City Pages The USDA has recently been delving into the potential benefits of enacting a tax on sugary beverages like sodas and fruit juices. Clearly, there’s plenty to debate about such a tax — whether it would raise soda prices enough to discourage consumption, whether it would unfairly impact the poor, how much revenue it would raise, and whether it would actually make anyone healthier. Well, according to the USDA’s just-released study , it would at least do the latter — the projections show that a sugar tax on sweet drinks… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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National Soda Tax Would Make Americans 4% Less Fat

Image via babs886.files.wordpress.com While some of your favorite childhood cartoons came with a pretty obvious green message — “Captain Planet,” anyone? — other animations go for a more subtle impact. From the animal testing in “The Secret of NIMH” and the vegetarian undertones in “Charlotte’s Web” to “The Simpsons’” environmentalism, here are 11 fantastic animated features sending surprisingly green messages to kids (and adults).

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11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages (Video Slideshow)

Image Credit: Vidafine via Flickr In New York, a group of twenty-somethings who live together make up a hit sitcom. In Toronto, they make up Trinity Reach Farm . Let’s call it The One Where the Gang Makes Their Backyard into an Urban Farm. An urban farm where they raise chickens, grow herbs and vegetables, smoke fish and meat, make cheese and brew beer and cider. Trinity Reach Farm, recently profiled by Vidafine , was founded in the spring of 2009 b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In Toronto, a Backyard Transformed into an Urban Farm