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The Lorax - who has written 25 posts on Treehumper .
The Lorax wants you to stop cutting down trees, or something.
Maldives Orders a “Shit-Ton” of Sandbags
An international purchase agreement revealed yesterday that the low-lying island nation of the Maldives has ordered an extremely large number of sandbags from multiple companies in the United States and Europe. A representative of the Maldives government responded to an e-mail question of what the bags are for as follows: "We are expecting a bit of flooding."
Continue reading...Editorial: We Were Wrong When We Called IPCC’s Pachauri a Testicle
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Not so long ago, the TreeHumper investigative team did some in-depth reporting on the ClimateFence scandal. One of our revelations was that the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri is actually "one half of a set of anthropomorphized testicles." Like any good journalist or human being, we can man up to it and say: We were wrong.
Continue reading...Super Bowl XLIV: A TreeHumper Scientific Survey
Saturday, February 6, 2010
TreeHumper examines how the two Super Bowl cities measure up in terms of their environmental records.
Continue reading...Senator McConnell Goes Into Real Lions’ Den, Doesn’t Come Out
Saturday, January 30, 2010
In an effort to match President Obama's show of bipartisanship when he spoke to and fielded questions from Republican House leaders on Friday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R—Ken.) took a symbolic and apparently fatal approach.
Continue reading...Poll: Majority, But Not Supermajority, Wants to Save the Planet
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A new poll of more than 5,000 people from around the country found that only a majority actually care about protecting the environment. Without the required supermajority, though, it will be impossible to move forward on all planet-saving measures.
Continue reading...Cape Wind Stalled By Tribe’s Spiritual Need For Cheap Craps Tables
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The latest hiccup in a decade-long battle over the Cape Wind project comes from the Mashpee Wampanoag nation, who claim that the 130 turbines that would be built in Nantucket Sound would hinder their ancient tradition of greeting the sunrise while lying naked on piles of casino profits.
Continue reading...An Inconvenient Tooth and Other Overshadowed Annoyances
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Truth is not the only inconvenient thing in the world. Here are a few that have been forgotten amidst the hype.
Continue reading...Editorial: I’m Really Fucking Cold Right Now
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The deniers have been out in force recently, trumpeting about how the extended cold snap in many parts of the world is evidence that global warming is a myth. I am well aware of the convincing scientific arguments as to why that is utter nonsense, and that the last decade was the hottest ever recorded, and all of that. Really, I am. But I have to tell you: I am just freezing my fucking nuts off right now.
Continue reading...Local Cannibal Cites the High Carbon Cost of Eating Beef
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
In an era when eating organically, locally and chemical-free have become lasting trends, Andrew Glick of Carsonville, North Carolina, has found an elegant way to go about it: he eats people.
Continue reading...Going Greenish in 2010: 10 Environmental New Year’s Resolutions
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
So you've decided to go a bit greener in 2010. Good for you! But since you're obviously a bit of a clueless bandwagon jumper, TreeHumper is here to provide some help on what you can do to help save the planet and put off our inevitable colonization of Mars.
Continue reading...No Laughing Matter...
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