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Jennifer Lance in Other Green Topics 825 days ago
The scarcity of fresh water may drive up prices and fines around the world. Already in Barcelona, Spain, you can be fined €9,000 ($13,000) for watering your flowers. According to Truthout, just like oil: Developed nations have taken cheap, abundant fresh water largely for granted. Now global population growth, pollution, and climate change are shaping… Read More…
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Those extra pounds Americans are carrying around are causing climate change. Considering eating more food requires more agriculture production and transportation costs, obese people are contributing to food shortages and higher energy prices, according to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility,” said… Read More…
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Jeff McIntire-Strasburg in Fun / Offbeat 829 days ago
That’s right… blogging can be a bit like that “Telephone” game we all played as kids. Thanks as always to Brad and Peter! Read more Shades of Green comic strips
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Get your minds out of the gutter: Green Porno is not about rainforest condoms or green brothels! This Sundance Channel show by Isabella Rossellini features short films about bizarre sexual mating habits of insects, bugs, and other creatures.
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Timothy B. Hurst in Video & Media 829 days ago
A new project from DeSmogBlog, Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace USA, called Coal is Dirty aims to address the spread of disinformation about the facts surrounding global warming, so governments and industry are held accountable for their actions. The site is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning the facts about climate change. This… Read More…
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Watch out Swiss Family Robinson, this treehouse in Northumberland County, UK is 6000 square feet! Who knew that McMansions would appear in the trees? Via: Fun Shotgun
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Sharon Troy in Action & Activism 834 days ago
I had the pleasure of attending Carrot Mob’s first event in San Francisco a few months ago. They’ve got a unique approach to incentivizing local businesses to go green. Watch their video and check out Paul Smith’s post about Carrot Mob on Triple Pundit. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/LUz0kM1u_jk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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Hey, we should all laugh at ourselves once in a while, right? Thanks, as always, to Brad and Peter…
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The accumulation of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere can be a difficult concept to visualize (maybe something to do with the fact that CO2 is invisible). So if you’re a visual learner like me, you’ll want to watch this short from the Energy Saving Campaign [45 seconds]. [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/6Eg_SEAnE-M" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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Shirley Siluk Gregory in ecoscraps 839 days ago
Icebergs, glaciers and ice caps might soon be endangered species, thanks to climate change, so enjoy them while you can. One of the most extraordinary images of an iceberg I’ve yet to see appears in the U.K.’s Telegraph: a marbled “rainbow” iceberg photographed by a Norwegian sailor in the Antarctic.
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mcmilker in Transport 841 days ago
The ORINOKO project has developed software that combines real time video feed to re-set traffic lights. The new system fills the gap between the established but expensive induction loops and the journey time measurements obtained using sensors in taxis. Image Credit: Elcopilot at Flickr under Creative Commons License
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Last month, the Brazilian government began producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon in an effort to preserve the world’s largest rainforest and cut dependence on imported contraceptives to fight AIDS. Brazil’s first government-run condom factory will produce 100 million condoms a year from latex harvested in the Chico Mendes Reserve, named after… Read More…
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Max Lindberg in Green Buildings 843 days ago
They’re probably drinking a lot of beer in Quqiao village, in Shaanxi Province, China. Ma Yanjun, a carpenter, said he wanted his mother to be able to enjoy a comfortable shower anytime, and since a solar water heating system was too expensive, he devised a way to make one of his own. Using only water-filled… Read More…
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Clayton B. Cornell in Transport 843 days ago
Wired magazine put together a slideshow of motorcycles that are pushing the limits of green design and technology. Take the ENV Fuel Cell Bike, pictured above, which will be the first hydrogen-powered motorcycle when it’s released next year. See 11 more of these green machines at Wired.
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Or, more evidence for the skeptics. Thanks, as always, to Brad and Peter. Check out more of their work at The Green House.
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Worried about the potential health effects of cellphone radiation? A clothing company named Remus has unveiled a stylish solution: the E-Blocker suit for men that features metal woven into the fabric to reflect radiation from mobile phones and Bluetooth devices. No word on whether E-Blocker fashions for women are in the works, though.
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All it takes is a lot of duct tape, some ducting, PVC pipe, 50 gallon drum, a pile of wood and an old furnace to beat today’s high gas prices. A man identified only as Bob contributed this story to Coast to Coast, saying the owner told him the wood burning oven catches combustible fuels… Read More…
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Streets are for People sponsored this anti-car petition on an actual car in Ontario. We the undersigned do hereby demand that not one more dollar go to promote, support, or perpetuate car culture. We want bike lanes, public transit and a train system. We want our public space back. We want local food, clean air,… Read More…
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Cool looking contraption, huh? What you’re looking at is Finavera Renewables’ latest project in scalable wave power technology. If you think that picture is pretty cool, you’ll enjoy the animation: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/r89xQxZsaN8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Photo: U.S. Minerals Management Service
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Aussie Klara Marosszek has developed a commercially viable hemp building material. Fire and pest resistant hemp concrete is made by mixing hemp hurds (the pithy core of the stem), lime-based binder, water and a little sand. This is not a new technique, as century old bridges in France were made from hemp concrete. Via: Treehugger… Read More…
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Yabba dabba doo! Thanks, as always, to Brad and Peter for allowing us to republish “Shades of Green.” You can find more of their work at The Green House. And, of course, there’s always more on alternative transportation at Gas 2.0.
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Everything is going green these days, even Barbie (NOT!). Hasbro is introducing the first world edition of its classic board game Monopoly featuring renewable energy. Wind energy and solar energy will replace the utilities of water works and the electric company. Phil Jackson, Group Executive, Hasbro Games stated, “In a nod to the efforts of… Read More…
