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Big cuts coming this spring..." [read]
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John said:
"I don't know about the cats, but any tool library with four dibbles gets my vote.
Sounds like a locavore's dream...." [read]
Johnny Yuma said:
"Throwing chemicals that can cause injury to others is battery. Fouling the anchor of a ship at sea risks the lives of all hands aboard.
Boa..." [read]
Ron Wagner said:
"All the above are correct and insightful. Please educate yourself on this issue. Read Alcohol Can Be a Gas. Read up on ethanol and cattle fed. The ..." [read]
AJ said:
"Whilst it is mostly cheap wine that appears in the "Chateau Cardboard" packaging, there is at least one wine (Banrock Station) that put the same qu..." [read]
Brad Pitt continues to lend his talent on this 3rd season e2 for their latest installment titled "Transport." Episodes begin streaming on the web November 24 and then will air on PBS later this winter. Episodes span cities across the globe and look at not just commuting but also new, sustainable ways to transport goods and services.
Road Rage Against Cyclist
Last summer, the Oregonian reported an incident between a cyclist and a deranged driver in Portland: Jason Scott Rehnberg, 37, yelled at the car to slow down, and apparently angered by the remark, the driver chased the cyclist. He rode his bike into the neighborhood to escape and after a while, probably thinking he was safe, he went back on the road where the incident first happened. But the driver saw Rehnberg and backed his car to try to hit him.
Read on for the rest of the story, including a video of Rehnberg on the hood of the car...
According to a study released by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health there’s reason to believe that the development of antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins is associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay fever, and eczema in preschool urban children as young as three years of age.
The study is the first to focus on the links between antibody responses to cockroach and mouse proteins and respiratory and allergic symptoms in such a young age group, and the implications for children who live in our inner cities where indoor air quality is often poor are truly significant.
They're big, they're burly, and they may have deep pockets, but the popular singer Björk plans to limit their destruction to her home country, Iceland, by supporting a current project in the works called, Náttúra.
If you’re a high school student with an idea to make your community a more sustainable place to live then there’s a new contest that just may be a great way to get the seed money you need to get your project off the ground. Put together by The Weather Channel and the National Environmental Education Foundation as a part of Classroom Earth, they’re looking for smart, innovative, and workable solutions to pressing environmental issues.
And get this; they’ll even pay you a cash stipend for being a local environmental intern to go along with the seed money you'll receive to help make it happen!
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet is a timely look at the major players in clean technology and what we stand to gain from them if we put the time, energy and money into them that they require to develop.
Written by Chris Goodall, author of How to Live a Low Carbon Life, the book takes an open-eyed look at power sources, including wind, solar, wave, and heat, green home building, electric cars, carbon capture, biochar, and the soil and forests. In his usual conversational, accessible tone, Goodall points out the benefits, problems, and obstacles facing each of these elemental aspects of clean tech upon which our survival as a planet depends.
Those of you who, as I do, have long felt that photosynthesis was the unsung hero of the energy debate will find much to like about Oliver Morton's "Eating the Sun." Though ostensibly about the history of photosynthesis, this epic volume is so much more: an account of the planet's early development, a vivid recounting of some of the twentieth century's most heated scientific rivalries and discoveries and a shrewd, almost philosophical, take on the climate and energy crises.
Morton, who has written for several publications, including The New Yorker and The Economist, and who is now Nature's chief news and features editor, has the keen eye of a scientist and the flowing writing style of an accomplished novelist. Where another might have struggled with the sheer scope of this book, Morton ably guides the reader through the dense narrative, describing every technology, theory and equation down to the minutiae with the ease of an accomplished scholar-scientist (at over 400 pages, that is quite a feat).
The Swedish team behind the award-winning film The Planet is in Japan to film their next feature documentary about mind change, called The Plan. Travelling to some 15 countries, David Österberg and Michael Stenberg are exploring how leading scientists and debaters think: what is going to be the paradigm shift, that drives forth and triggers changes or sudden shifts in our lives and in our minds?
Today in Tokyo, they met Dr Shin-ichi Takemura. His Tangible Earth is an amazing display of our planet, with facts about everything from normal weather patterns (updated by satellite) to unusual hurricanes.
Photo By 30th Century Fox
Futurama is now carbon neutral. The animated series went green in 2007 when it released its first feature-length production Futurama: Bender’s Big Score. It even won the Carbon Neutral DVD Release of the Year Award. Since then, Twentieth Century Fox has released two more straight-to-DVD Futurama features. Both are carbon neutral. In that time, Futurama and Co have made significant cuts to their overall carbon emissions.
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Despite having written at length (some might say excessively) about the sorry fate of Yosemite's dwindling glaciers and the Sierra snowpack, I've always felt as though my posts were missing something -- a certain audio/visual oomph, you might say. Though I'm much too busy to visit Yosemite in person these days (I intend to do over the coming months, however), the fine folks at KQED have provided the next best alternative: an elaborate video and photo montage on Climate Watch, their climate change-focused blog. ...
The 2003 NBA Rookie of the Year Amare Stoudemire has recently turned his focus away from the court and onto Africa—he's donated a considerable sum of money to fund well construction (a cause he has in common with TreeHugger founder Graham Hill) in Sierra Leone, and he's personally taken a trip there to unveil the various project sites where the work is to be done. ...
Kenji Williams is in Tokyo this week with his amazing Bella Gaia presentation. This video is from the digital planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, filmed using HD cameras and fisheye lenses. Kenji Williams on the violin with KaChun Yu running the visualizations. Because we all need a reminder of just how beautiful our planet really is....
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Host of HGTV’s “Design on a Dime” and interior designer to the stars Kahi Lee has unveiled a new line of furniture with Botanist/Orange22 to raise funds and awareness for charitable organizations worldwide. One of the network’s most popular hosts, Lee blends chic design with an eye towards sustainable living. Keep reading for more on the pieces available, and other cool designers involved....
Image source: Virtual FinlandThe Sustainability Mirage: Illusion and Reality in the Coming War on Climate Change by John Foster is very timely, particularly given other similar books like Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman and The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones. Earlier this week Warren wrote an article questioning why people aren't in the streets and if there really is anything we can do to save ourselves from the quickly drawing deadline that is climate change. Foster asserts that simply choosing to save the planet for future generations isn't enough to get us to the deadline because it is a slippery slope that we can never achieve. In The Sustainability Mirage, Foster asserts that we only have one shot to get this right, so we need to redefine what we mean by sustainable development, and quit thinking of it as a long-term goal in order to break away from this mirage....
Pistachio’s flagship Yonge & Eglinton location in Toronto. Photo courtesy of Pistachio.
Looking for beeswax crayons for the kids? Or perhaps you’re in need of unique note cards printed on recycled paper with soy ink? If your dream store carries nothing but chic, eco-friendly products, you’ll be nuts for Pistachio, a new retail store that opened in Toronto last month.
The shop with a conscience envisioned by Heather Reisman – the woman behind the Indigo Books empire (which, incidentally, has a rather impressive environmental policy for a bookstore) – goes the extra mile in greening lifestyle retail. But it all started, as the company’s mission statement reveals, with a simple idea, “being generous, environmentally sensitive and engaged with life is good for us and good for the planet.”...
New Guide to Oil Depletion for Local Authorities
Whether it’s Boulder, Colorado enacting a carbon tax; Sydney becoming Australia’s first carbon-neutral government body; or Somerset County Council becoming the first “Transition Local Authority” in the UK, local government can be fertile ground for grassroots environmental change. Even so, few town councils and regional governments are grasping the dire need for energy reform in the near future. We’ve just heard, via Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture, that a new guide from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre and the Post Carbon Institute hopes to set this straight – helping local authorities in the UK plan for the threat of peak oil.
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It may have slipped by your news reader during the dog days of summer, but don’t think for a second that the AFT’s recent adoption of a green schools and colleges resolution is anything less than a landmark event; because with 1,400,000 members the AFT has the membership muscle to back up their call for greener schools in America....
We're All Living in Internet Time Now
Things sure move fast these days. If we look at the environment, it wasn't so long ago that in the U.S. green wasn't on the mainstream's radar and opinions on global warming were extremely polarized. Then in the past couple years, everybody and their dogs were now into green. European governments were pledging to make huge cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, etc.
But things are changing. Are we on the eve of a new 180 degrees? Read on for more....
Even if you don't speak a word of Spanish, there's a pretty big chance that you know Aterciopelados, a Colombian band that jumped to the international scene in the '90s. Its heartbreak-song Bolero Falaz travelled around the world putting Colombia in the international rock-map.
Much has gone through since then and the now duo formed by Andrea Echeverry and Hector Buitrago, grown up and heading families of their own, have become more and more involved in environmental issues. So much, that their latest album is called Rio (River), and the song that names the record -for example- is a homage to the Bogota River, now polluted and in danger.
TreeHugger exchanged e-mails with one of the Aterciopelados, Hector Buitrago, who tells us about the inspiration behind Rio and the group's environmental involvement....
When students and staff at the Frontier Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona realized just 100 kids didn’t have regular access to email in one form or another they took a shot at taking their journalistic masterpiece online, and they’re beaming because of it....
Electric Motorcycles: Cool and Green
There's nothing wrong with "cool", and we have to admit that few vehicles are cooler than motorcycles (at least in theory - not all of us would ride one). You're basically sitting on an engine with wheels. Can't get much simpler than that. They're not always practical, but the people who love their bikes really love them.
But cool is not enough. The vast majority of motorcycles are still running on fossil fuels, and that's a problem. As battery technology improves, we're starting to see more electric motorcycles: Some are commercially available, many are DIY custom jobs. Today we look at some of the coolest ones....
Making Pedestrian Life Easier
Our friends at StreetFilms have a short & sweet video about diagonal crosswalks (aka pedestrian scrambles, or Barnes dances) in Los Angeles. These make life easier for pedestrians by allowing them to get across an intersection diagonally without having to cross twice, and they improve safety because you don't have cars trying to turn while people are crossing.
Read on for the video and more details....
Renew magazine has, for well over 25 years, been the digest that Australians have turned to when they wanted detailed how-to information for living a more sustainable life. A large part of its appeal has been its down-to-earth persona. This is no glossy high brow publication, its written as if the writers were hanging over the fence, passing on gentle advice to a friendly neighbour. And they could well be your next-door neighbour, as often the articles are by lay people who 'did it' themselves. Like Shaun Williams, who made his own retrofitted solar-powered lawn mower, that mows 250m2 of thick grass, for $450 AUD. Or David Rowe, who energy audited his 80 year old house and made some changes, such that his electricity and gas bills dropped by about half.
But the current Oct-Dec issue is packed with much more. Such as the community co-op that is looking to buy its own pair of 2MW wind turbines and plant them on nearby hill above cows and potatoes. ...
If you’ve been looking for a great reusable bag that folds in tightly on itself for easy carrying in no time at all then look no further than the keychain that turns itself into a reusable tote put out by GrowKids.
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Considering how much we wrote about hypermiling in the past year (see here, here, here, here and here), it's no big surprise that it has been picked as "word of the year" for 2008 by the New Oxford American Dictionary. This seems to be a trend among dictionaries: "Carbon Neutral" was word of the year at Oxford in 2006, "biodiesel" was added to the Merriam-Webster last year, and many other green words like "eco-village" and "food miles" were added to the Chambers dictionary recently. Read on for more....
Elon Musk Interview
Very interesting interview with Elon Musk at the Web 2.0 Summit. He discusses Tesla's business model and why they started with an upmarket expensive car, he talks about the recent financial difficulties because of the housing bubble/credit crunch and how he's investing more of his money, and he also talks about SolarCity's success and how they should do even better this year despite the recession. It's worth checking out. Via CNET. See also: Photo of Tesla Model S Electric Sedan...
Image: The artist Ashley Cecil with her winning entry (Photo: Donald Vish, Oxfam America)
Art can be a powerful tool for social change, disseminating ideas and inspiring people to act together.Oxfam America’s Climate Change on Canvas initiative is doing just that – with the aim of bringing art, activism and concern for climate change together for an exhibition at December’s UN Conference of Parties meeting in Poznan, Poland.
After requesting and reviewing proposals from several emerging artists from all over the nation, Oxfam America selected Louisville, Kentucky resident Ashley Cecil, who is a self-described “painting activist” to create a work that would illustrate how climate change affects poor communities.
As seen after the fold, Cecil’s gorgeous painting of two women in a drought-baked landscape depicts one of them tipping out a bowl of dust instead of a bounty of grain, symbolizing the struggle of impoverished families to feed themselves in a world facing more and more climate-related impacts....
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TreeHugger breaks it down for you in a series of in depth how-to articles that will help you green your life. No time like the present!
Those of you who, as I do, have long felt that photosynthesis was the unsung hero of the energy debate will find much to like about Oliver Morton's "
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The 2003 NBA Rookie of the Year 
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Host of HGTV’s “Design on a Dime” and interior designer to the stars 
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Pistachio’s flagship Yonge & Eglinton location in Toronto. Photo courtesy of Pistachio.
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New Guide to Oil Depletion for Local Authorities
Whether it’s 
It may have slipped by your news reader during the dog days of summer, but don’t think for a second that the AFT’s recent adoption of a green schools and colleges resolution is anything less than a landmark event; because with 1,400,000 members the AFT has the membership muscle to back up their call for greener schools in America....
We're All Living in Internet Time Now
Things sure move fast these days. If we look at the environment, it wasn't so long ago that in the U.S. green wasn't on the mainstream's radar and opinions on global warming were extremely polarized. Then in the past couple years, everybody and their dogs were now into green. European governments were pledging to make huge cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, etc.
But things are changing. Are we on the eve of a new 180 degrees? Read on for more....
Even if you don't speak a word of Spanish, there's a pretty big chance that you know 
When students and staff at the Frontier Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona realized just 100 kids didn’t have regular access to email in one form or another they took a shot at taking their journalistic masterpiece online, and they’re beaming because of it....
Electric Motorcycles: Cool and Green
There's nothing wrong with "cool", and we have to admit that few vehicles are cooler than motorcycles (at least in theory - not all of us would ride one). You're basically sitting on an engine with wheels. Can't get much simpler than that. They're not always practical, but the people who love their bikes really love them.
But cool is not enough. The vast majority of motorcycles are still running on fossil fuels, and that's a problem. As battery technology improves, we're starting to see more electric motorcycles: Some are commercially available, many are DIY custom jobs. Today we look at some of the coolest ones....
Making Pedestrian Life Easier
Our friends at StreetFilms have a short & sweet video about diagonal crosswalks (aka pedestrian scrambles, or Barnes dances) in Los Angeles. These make life easier for pedestrians by allowing them to get across an intersection diagonally without having to cross twice, and they improve safety because you don't have cars trying to turn while people are crossing.
Read on for the video and more details....
Renew magazine has, for well over 25 years, been the digest that Australians have turned to when they wanted detailed how-to information for living a more sustainable life. A large part of its appeal has been its down-to-earth persona. This is no glossy high brow publication, its written as if the writers were hanging over the fence, passing on gentle advice to a friendly neighbour. And they could well be your next-door neighbour, as often the articles are by lay people who 'did it' themselves. Like Shaun Williams, who made his own retrofitted solar-powered lawn mower, that mows 250m2 of thick grass, for $450 AUD. Or 
If you’ve been looking for a great reusable bag that folds in tightly on itself for easy carrying in no time at all then look no further than the keychain that turns itself into a reusable tote put out by GrowKids.
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Considering how much we wrote about 
Image: The artist Ashley Cecil with her winning entry (Photo: Donald Vish, Oxfam America)
