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This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted.”

1. Palm Oil

Many of those substances are bad for our health, bad for our planet and show up in really surprising places. One of the most blatant examples is palm oil, which is now found in just about everything; alm…Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas

India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928. Now, there are more than 500 in the country ranging from dedicated tiger and bird reserves to more general areas intend to protect habitats rich in biological diversity.

Unfortunately, <a href=”http://www.eurekale…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Images: Studied Impact

It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building. So it with a mixture of cynicism and excitement that we greet news of projects such as this.

The proposed 10MW Tower, designed by Studied Impact, is a 50-story skyscraper that integrates three massive ren…Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: chantrybee via flickr.

Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum–like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse gases. That’s the word from a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in <a href=”http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Ivan Prole

Look at the bottle of juice you just drank. The detergent you’re going to use. The plastic backer on the desk calendar. What’s on all of them? That familiar “chasing arrows” graphic with a number in the middle. That means it’s recyclable, right?

Sorry, but not quite….Read the full story on TreeHugger

A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar.

What does “sustainability” mean to you? That’s the question that JPG Magazine, a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online community, who posted hundreds of images of peaceful landscapes, freshly grown <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/green-roo…Read the full story on TreeHugger

+ Is Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory.

+ Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.’s Robert Kenner, Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just some of the Oscar red-carpet attendees decked in sustainable style.

+ How our little Herminone has…Read the full story on TreeHugger