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Treehugger and Planet Green are giving you your weekly update on their hottest green headlines of the week. Find out what's keeping our planet ticking — and what's at stake — in these killer eco-stories.

After seeing these incredible photos by Chris Jordan of what plastics in our oceans is doing to birds, we have to wonder, is it time to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

The next time you are staring down the name brands in your supermarket, keep these five eco-friendly milk suggestions in mind.

The Farmer-Veteran Coalition wants to match hard working farmers with returning Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans, so that they might help each other heal both the wounds of the US food system, and of those of the battle weary warrior.

That's the word from WWF, in Climate Solutions 2. The good news is that we can make the transition, and the money it will bring in will far outweigh that going out.

Fancy yourself a DIY person? Check out the motherlode of appropriate technology! The absolute best resource we've found for appropriate technology is Appropedia.

According to a consumer survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, fuel economy is now more important than the number of cup holders to U.S. car buyers. (It's sad that it ever was otherwise).

From fast-tracking oil development in the Amazon to privatizing water around the world, these stories have been either overlooked or ignored in the news. Why?

California and Texas: They're politically as different as night and day, but while California's liberal voter base has allowed it to pass aggressive energy efficiency laws and renewable energy standards, Texas is poised to leave California in the dust when it comes to renewable power.