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treehugger.com — A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step By extrapolating the monthly sales numbers a bit, Plug-In America (a non-profit advocacy group that was originally formed to protest the destruction of the EV1, among other things) has projected that the 100,000th plug-in vehicle will have been sold in the U.S.

treehugger.com — What big teeth you have got! Ever wondered what it's like to be eaten by a grizzly bear? Probably not... Except maybe in a nightmare. In any case, it's now possible to see (if not feel) what it's like from the safety of your home.

treehugger.com — The New York Times' Elisabeth Rosenthal reports that New York spends "$10 million annually to send 100,000 tons of plastic bags that are tossed in the general trash to landfills in South Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania" and that New Yorkers are laggards when it comes to big cities addressing plastic bag pollution: Since 2009, large stores throughout the state providing plastic bags have been required to take them back for recycling.

treehugger.com — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has decided to test plug-in vehicles separately from gas and gas-electric hybrid versions of the same models, no doubt to make sure that the extra equipment (battery, power electronics, charger, etc) doesn't make plug-in models less safe.

treehugger.com — I was in the mood for a chocolate mousse and started looking around for a vegan recipe. I thought it would be a bit lighter than a traditional recipe, and to be honest I was curious if a vegan recipe could even hold a candle to a mousse made with dairy.

treehugger.com — The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert explains why the Keystone XL pipeline must be stopped for a chance at a livable future. If we take the future at all seriously, which is to say as a time period that someone is going to have to live in, then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet's coal and oil and natural gas in the ground.