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Category Archives: ecoscraps
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Philip Proefrock in Fun / Offbeat 727 days ago
Designer Hafsteinn Juliusson has found a compelling image for this series of designs of rings with living plants in place of precious stones or other mineral elements more typical to jewelry. The designer says of the design, “The collection of this hand jewelry is designed for people in metropolitan cities and is an experiment in… Read More…
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“Satellite images gathered by NASA show that the north-west passage opened last weekend and the final blockage on the east side of the ice cap, an area of sea ice stretching to Siberia, dissolved a few days later.” Whether or not you subscribe to the concept of global climate change due to human factors, there… Read More…
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Shirley Siluk Gregory in ecoscraps 736 days ago
A chemical engineer points to serious safety concerns at a South Carolina facility being built to convert recovered plutonium into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. Dan Tedder, emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a former independent technical reviewer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), says the NRC “want(ed)… Read More…
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Al Gore presented a dramatic and widely discussed speech on matters of climate, carbon emissions, and energy last week. Maybe you didn’t get to listen to it at the time, and would like to read the text, but reading speeches can be boring. Science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling, who founded something called the Viridian… Read More…
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Island Press is marking the 20th anniversary of ‘global warming’ as a term entering the public consciousness with a free electronic copy of The Challenge of Global Warming, an early book addressing the issue. On June 23, 1988, NASA Scientist James E. Hansen testified on Capitol Hill before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee…. Read More…
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Kansas City MO architect Bob Berkebile is one of the key figures in establishing the importance of green building in this country. Berkebile was instrumental in the founding of both the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as well as the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment (COTE). Those once-radical ideas have started to… Read More…
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Restaurants in seven cities across the US are part of the initial wave of the Food & Water Watch “Take Back the Tap“ Campaign. “The consumer advocacy group is working with cities across the nation to urge local restaurants and chefs to sign a pledge to switch to serving only tap water, help educate customers… Read More…
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mcmilker in ecoscraps 827 days ago
The Economist reports bras and panties from the world’s first carbon neutral clothing factory are set to hit Britain’s high streets this month. Photo credit: losiek at Flick’r Under Creative Commons License
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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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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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Timothy B. Hurst in Renewable Energy 856 days ago
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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Think you could get by using only as much water as a rural African villager: about 20 liters (a little over five gallons) per day? Brits Sophie Morris and Paul Martin each describe their experiences taking the 20-liter challenge. (Hint: both suffer bouts of “flushitis” in facing the fact an average toilet uses eight to… Read More…
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Today’s Register features an amusing series of screenshots illustrating how computer companies and Web hosts are falling over one another in the race to put on a green face for their customers. One of my favorite comments in the post: “So, do windmill makers use servers on their web sites to advertise the greenocity of… Read More…
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What’s more unsightly: a backyard clothesline or a dangerously warming world driven to the tipping point by greenhouse gas emissions? Ontario officials have decided on their answer, which is why they’ll be banning local bans on outdoor clotheslines this summer.
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Honeybees and songbirds might be getting harder to find, but not redback spiders. In fact, so many of the poisonous arachnids are swarming the tiny Baralaba Multi Purpose Health Service hospital in Australia’s Queensland state that officials are closing the facility for one day so they can fumigate. Authorities blame the infestation on warm temperatures… Read More…
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Max Lindberg in ecoscraps 869 days ago
While filming the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, the stunt driver of Bond’s $200,000 Aston Martin, misjudged and drove off a cliff into 150 feet of water, knocking him out. 29 year old Fraser Dunn came to and managed to swim to shore with only minor injuries. Police weren’t amused, he was fined about… Read More…
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As part of their Earth Day coverage, NPR’s All Things Considered took a look at a LEED Platinum home renovation in Washington DC. Peter Yost from the green building resource BuildingGreen helped to explain some of the possibly unfamiliar green building terms and explained how the elements of this renovation contributed to its being one… Read More…
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In yet another ludicrous example of people being punished for conserving (see a previous instance here), water-strapped Atlanta and Fulton County are mulling a 15-percent water rate hike to offset revenue losses caused by residents trying to reduce their consumption.
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Among the many other ill effects it is causing, global climate change may also be contributing to failures of hops and barley crops. Without these two essential ingredients, the supply of beer will be reduced, and prices for what remains will rise dramatically. According to Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute… Read More…
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An exclusive investigative report in this week’s Mother Jones provides yet another compelling reason to shred and recycle your office paper: revelations about a now-defunct private security firm that searched through Greenpeace’s trash for documents and targeted other environmental groups such as the Center for Food Safety and the Environmental Working Group.
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Jennifer Lance in ecoscraps 881 days ago
The Chinese plan to use cloud seeding to prevent rain during the Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremonies. The chances of rain on Aug. 8 are close to 50%. Source: LA Times
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Hybrid cars and other vehicles with silent engines could pose a threat to visually impaired people who rely on traffic noises to judge when it’s safe to cross the street, according to the National Federation of the Blind. To address that concern, two U.S. House representatives have introduced a bill that would require the Secretary… Read More…
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Brazil’s health ministry has announced a plan aimed at reducing its dependence on imported goods, fighting AIDS, providing contraception and … preserving the Amazon rainforest. The highlight of the plan? Natex, a condom to be made from latex from Brazil’s rubber trees.
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[kml_flashembed movie="http://pop.youtube.com/v/UdmEfgc5aYU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] James Bond faces villain disguised as eco entrepreneur in the new Sony film, Quantum of Solace, due out in November
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Michelle Bennett in Uncategorized 886 days ago
[kml_flashembed movie="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2499788127752613053" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] Reducing the amount of water you use is good for the environment, and good for your wallet. Better yet, you don’t have to sacrifice water pressure to do it. Check out the best water faucet aerators of 2008. Source: MetaEfficient.com Video Courtesy of Google Videos
