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:: Help cool down the planet by setting your laundry's spin cycle on cold.

:: Keep a beach-ready bod with this healthy Chinese take-out alternative: Black Bean Tofu.

:: Get to the bottom of that leaky faucet to conserve water.

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TreeHugger is proud to be contributing original content to the Huffington Post Green section. Recent posts:

Greenwashers Beware: The Truth Will Come Out Should we trust all these green claims? Since the green movement has gained momentum, there has been a lot of talk about whether a company is greenwashing or whether carbon credits can be trusted. ::Graham Hill
My Challenge to America: Don't Ignore Gore's Speech It was a speech that should have inspired and excited Americans of all walks of life at least as much as, if not more than, President Kennedy's. Instead, Mr. Gore's idea has been met with a chorus of criticism, with the naysayers claiming that it would be too costly, too impractical, and too risky to attempt to meet such a goal. ::Andy Posner
How Obama Can Regain the Initiative on Energy the latest report from James Carville and Stan Greenberg, two campaign consultants, has revealed that Obama has been losing ground to McCain and that he has not effectively addressed the shift in public sentiment. ::Jeremy Jacquot
Six Tips to Green Your TV Here's a chance to make millions: Come up with a green TV. Frankly, there just isn't one yet. Even with huge technological "advances," this standard household item isn't getting greener. ::Mairi Beautyman
My Sinful Second Home Over at Grist, the Biodiversivist does a driveby shooting of a rather nice green second home. I am going to defend the sinful second home, and why I and my cabin are perhaps not as uncool and shallow as the Biodiversivist says we are. ::Lloyd Alter

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:: Spend a rainy day inside making this addictive Carmelized Red Onion Relish.

:: Spare the planet and skip the stirrer when preparing your coffee or tea.

:: Use up the last of this season's asparagus in this versatile, vegan Asparagus Spinach Dip.

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:: Take advantage of this season's cheap and tasty corn on the cob by buying it in bulk. Then make this Roasted Yellow Pepper and Corn bisque.

:: Have a good chuckle reading SuChin's rant on what "going green" can actually mean and what Paris Hilton has to do with it...

:: Cook delicious, you-would-never-know-it's-vegan meals with help from cookbook, Veganomicon.

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TreeHugger is proud to be contributing original content to the Huffington Post Green section. This week's posts:

Do Big Homes Mean Bigger Happiness? Nowadays, you can take a stroll through a suburban street and actually come across the White House. Well, not the actual residence of George W., but a scarily accurate, humongous replica. Yep, despite the woes of the housing market, Americans are still super-sizing their homes. ::Graham Hill

Ludicrous Lawns, Wasted Water, and Solid Solutions NASA has studied satellite data and concluded that lawns in the US are taking up as much space as the whole state of New York (not the city, the state). That's fifty thousand square miles of grass! ::Michael Graham Richard

Five Products to Green Your Cat Yep, they may be the world's most independent creatures, often scornful, superior, unpredictable, and affectionate only when it comes down to the tuna, but we still love our cats. Here are five products for a tree-hugging kitty. ::Mairi Beautyman

Does Recycling Really Do Any Good? The words "recycled" and "recyclable" often conjure up similar notions of relative greenness; the general idea is that, as long as you aren't pitching it directly in the trash, you're doing something good for the planet, right? Turns out, it isn't quite that simple. ::Collin Dunn

Tortillas, Ethanol, and High Fructose Corn Syrup
What is lost in all the biofuel controversy is the fact that tremendous amounts of land are devoted neither to fuel nor nutritive food, but rather to non-nutritive uses like tobacco, high fructose corn syrup and cane sugar.::Andy Posner

Carbon Tax? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Carbon Tax, We Already Have One. The debate about carbon taxes is over; we are already paying them, and they are working the way environmentalists said they would. The problem is, instead of collecting the carbon tax and using the money for conservation or alternative energy or even reducing income taxes, we are paying the tax to Big Oil, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Iran. ::Lloyd Alter

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For many people, Paul Hawken is a man who needs no introduction at all. As an author, a speaker, a theorist, and a business person, Paul Hawken has shaped the discussion of what sustainability is, and how it can be achieved. His Ecology of Commerce was an eye opener for many people (including Ray Anderson, last week’s interviewee), and Natural Capitalism, that he wrote with Amory and Hunter Lovins, can often be seen in the hands of Bill Clinton, brandished as a wakeup call to industry. Paul’s new book, Blessed Unrest (and its sister web community, Wiser Earth), is something different altogether: an exploration of what he says is the largest movement in human history. ::TreeHugger Radio

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If you’ve spent even a short time in a local school or have kids of your own you’ve no doubt run into those drawstring bags slung over their shoulder as they head off to parts unknown. And now Tina Hill, a parent and fan of TreeHugger has come up with the Kidzsack. An eco-friendly backsack for kids on the go made from 100% recycled fabric that comes screenprinted with her original, nature centered artwork and 8 washable non toxic markers so kids can while away some of those long summer hours in a creative way.