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The Good Folks ... ... at the state branch of the Sierra Club and Clean Water Action have released their annual scorecard on the Legislature's environmental votes. The report card gives the General Assembly credit for getting work done on...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
What you are looking at in the picture is roughly the minimum amount of fire wood (2.2 cords, roughly 4 imperial tons) it takes to "casually" heat a 1,900 ft2 home in Southeastern Pennsylvania, starting with occasional cold nights in October, becoming a daily routine by the end of November, and scaling back to cold nights sometime in mid-March. "Casual" heating means that the traditional oil furnace...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 33 minutes ago
Photo Vinay Deep @ flickr. Global warming is happening at an accelerated pace and may have reached its tipping point in the Arctic . That has some scientists worried that powerful emissions of methane from permafrost peatlands as well as from the warming Arctic ocean bottom are already upon us. Methane bubbles and peat bog belches Swedish researchers have been in Lappland last month drilling holes...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
all images from PVC: The Poison Plastic Phthalates, the plasticizer used to make vinyl soft, have been known to be a gender-bender that has been shown to affect the masculinity of rats. Even the Bush Administration , not renowned for its defence of the public against the chemical companies, has banned it from childrens' toys. Now
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
That's what an Icelandic celebrity chef has remarked about Iceland's economy in melt-down mode - deicing like an Exxon-Mobilated glacier. Eco-aware, earnest but pampered, they drift from organic café to bar, listening to the music of Björk and Sigur Rós, islanders who have made it big abroad. 'They will have to get their hands dirty now,' says chef Siggi Hall , Iceland's answer to Gordon Ramsay, with...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
(Photo from MSNBC by Kenneth Libbrecht) Today, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced for important discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Yoichiro Nambu at Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, US, shares the prize with Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan, and Toshihide Masukawa at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP),...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Using Technology to Alert Drivers to Animals on the Road We recently covered the top five roadkill sites in America , as well as a dire IUCN report stating that "25% of all the world’s mammal species are at risk of extinction." What's the connection? Well, while most of the extinctions are occurring because of h abitat loss and encroachment, as well as poach...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Image source: KLTV Warning! If you do not want to live in a straw bale house with a living roof and solar panels to power your satellite internet connectivity, DO NOT watch the video over the fold! Because when you see this video of Nick Moser's straw bale house project, you will not be able to resist making your own natural house. The gorgeous timber framing which sets a spiral patterned layout inspires...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Here is a good-looking carry-on bag that is environmental and stylish. It comes in two sizes and can swing over your shoulder for easy schlepping. It is made by Luisa Cevese, an Italian textile designer who has been creating beautiful bags out of recycled plastic since 1994 . She started out working in research in a silk mill and became aware of the vast quantity of waste created in textile production....
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Photo by Kansir IBM Consulting is offering their services to business owners who are interested in learning how to take the entire production process more efficient from “cradle to grave”. This is referring to the actual production process, packaging, distribution, refurbishing, and final recycling. ...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
photo soylentgreen23 @ flickr. More cyclists. That's the unscientific conclusion of some quick on-the-spot reporting by Denmark's iByen newspaper after the city of Copenhagen decided on a three-month experiment starting October 1 to shut out car traffic on a main city thoroughfare called Nørrebrogade. Green wave growing Copenhagen's municipal government wanted to give cyclists more space for morning...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Amtrak Finally Gets More Funding The heavens are finally smiling on Amtrak , as a perfect storm of high gas prices , a slowing economy, concern over rail safety after the recent Los Angeles crash, soaring ridership and even Joe Bid...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Coming up very quickly is an exciting conference called Bioneers , where over 10,000 people converge to hear from leading innovators about solutions to our environmental problems, and to talk with one another about how we can look to nature for the answers on how to save our planet. I’ll be there to cover some of the very cool technological and social advances discussed, and our very own Ken Rother...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 33 minutes ago
As part of the eco-friendlienss factor that computer manufacturers are implementing in their designs is bamboo and wood-cased computers. Feeling the pressure both from consumers and from each other, the greenness of a computer plays in to the current acceptance level of a manufacturers new products…well, at least in part. But we are curious about what it means to use a resource like wood for products...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Argentinean architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi took 18 wood boxes that were waste from the Brazilian automobile industry and transformed them into the Plug and Live System: a collection of modules to build transitory habitats and experiment with different ideas of housing. As the project moves on to team up with companies and NGOs to recover more waste and build cultural spaces, the original...
