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Category Archives: Other Green Topics
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Allison Boyer in Other Green Topics 520 days ago
A California woman has been accused of importing guitar picks, which wouldn’t be a big deal – if they weren’t made from endangered turtle shells. Qing Song, 54, of Santa Rose allegedly imported picks that were made of the raw shells of Hawksbill sea turtles. Although many musicians prefer shell picks over plastic picks, trading… Read More…
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Jennifer Lance in Other Green Topics 606 days ago
Californians throw away millions of dollars of unclaimed bottle refunds each year when they place recycling in the garbage. These unclaimed funds called California Redemption Value (CRV) are now being used to fund recycling projects at no expense to the state’s general fund. California recycles more than any other state in the union. Via: Environmental… Read More…
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Coal is making a comeback as a home heating fuel in the Northeast, Midwest, and Alaska, because it is cheap, plentiful, and locally-mined. According to the New York Times: Burning coal at home was once commonplace, of course, but the practice had been declining for decades. Coal consumption for residential use hit a low of… Read More…
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Freshman entering the University of New England and Ripon College are given free bikes if they promise to leave their cars at home. At Ripon College, 200 Trek mountain bikes, helmets and locks were given to freshman that signed up for the program. Dr. David C. Joyce, Ripon’s president and competitive mountain biker, explained, “We… Read More…
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Jerry James Stone in Business 707 days ago
Apple finally listens to Greenpeace. The iPhone maker is rumored to release their next-gen MacBook with eco-friendly aluminum. AppleInsider claims that the next version of Apple’s MacBook is ready to start production stateside, and that the iPhone maker has upgraded the laptop eco wise. The notebook’s plastic parts have been replaced by more eco-friendly… Read More…
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Adam Williams in Climate Change 710 days ago
According to GreenUpgrader, synthetic trees developed by Dr. Klaus Lackner could be an environmental boon built to scrub the atmosphere of our CO2 excesses: “The idea is that air would flow through the vanes of these structures. Flowing through sodium hydroxide (NaOH) which is inside the synthetic tree CO2 would chemically react to create sodium… Read More…
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California, the world’s sixth largest economy, is expected to grow as a result of a global warming law. AB32 requires a 25 percent cut in industrial greenhouse gases by 2020. Two new studies released by the California Air Resources Board claims the economy and public health will benefit from emissions reductions as a result of… Read More…
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A Georgian train station in Abkhazia has fallen into disrepair — or is it natural repair? — since the years that the elite of Soviet society used it en route to luxurious retreats. It is The World Without Us in action. Related post: The Case of the Missing Humans: Alan Weisman’s ‘The World Without Us’… Read More…
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing critique of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today for failing to control the export of toxic e-waste to third world countries. Discarded computers, televisions, cellphones, etc. contain hazardous heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium which are dismantled under unsafe conditions in other countries where they… Read More…
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In an uncharacteristic move, the Bush administration announced today they are withdrawing attempts to remove gray wolves living in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species list. Such a rule would have opened the way for public hunting of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming this fall. Via: Seattle PI Image: Treehugger
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Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, the NYC architectural design folks who brought to the world the Blur Building in Switzerland and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, have figured out how to make trees dance. Their rotating trees project, named of Arbores Laetae (Joyful Trees) can be found at a roadside park in Liverpool. The… Read More…
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Reviewing research on over 500 forests, scientists in Europe and the United States have concluded old growth forests store more carbon dioxide than they release. They are not carbon neutral, as previously believed. According to Beverly Law, a professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University: If you have an old forest on… Read More…
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Coming up in a couple of weeks is the International Furniture Fair in Valencia Spain, Sept. 23-27. There, from the NEL Collective (produced by Nanimarquina), will be the Global Warming Rug. The rug (shown above) features a blue sea spotted by a lonely ice floe with a polar bear riding out his isolated, floating fate…. Read More…
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Levi Novey in Other Green Topics 724 days ago
American filmmaker Ken Burns, most famous for his documentary on the American Civil War, is currently on a working vacation in Glacier National Park. He is obtaining footage of the park for his upcoming documentary that will be titled The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Burns says he was fascinated by the idea of telling… Read More…
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Endangered species don’t stand much of a chance in the remaining months of the Bush administration. Against expert advice, the Bush administration delisted the West Virginia northern flying squirrel, stripping the species of any protection without significant data supporting its recovery. Judy Rodd, director of Friends of Blackwater, part of a 29-group Save Our Squirrel… Read More…
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Big Oil and some politicians are constantly clamoring to open up more regions for oil exploration, but why? Look at all the land they are already leasing or have been offered for leasing! Image and Via: Sierra Club
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30-90 percent of bee colonies have been dying over the past two years. Europeans are banning the pesticide clothianidin to protect their bee populations from “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), yet the FDA, which approved the pesticide in 2003, refuses to release public documents of studies conducted by clothianidin’s maker Bayer CropScience on the chemical’s impact… Read More…
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The Green School opens its doors Sept. 1, 2008 to preschool through eighth-grade students. According to the Green School’s post at Ode Magazine’s Web site, the school’s faculty and student body come from 16 countries. The school aims to united Western and Indonesian students and, presumably, viewpoints. If interested in more information, Meliana Salim is… Read More…
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On Tuesday, the Bush administration slashed the critical habitat for the Northern Spotted Owl by 23 percent or 1.6 million acres. Spotted Owl populations are dropping by 4% each year due to loss of habitat and invasions by East Coast barred owls. Critical habitat protection is mandated under the Endangered Species Act, and the reduction… Read More…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/ILhwHooipSY&hl=en] Ever wondered what impact your footsteps have upon the Earth? Watch this video of people running in a park for 5 days.
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Fireworks displays create surges of pollutant ozone in lower levels of the atmosphere, where it is a respiratory irritant, greenhouse gas, and plant toxin. Some scientists believe fireworks are an “insignificant source of pollution”, because they occur infrequently; however, no source of greenhouse gases is insignificant considering our current climate crisis, not to mention the… Read More…
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The River Ganges is provides spiritual and physical sustenance for 400 million people. Raw sewage and industrial waste contaminate the river at every city along its banks (fecal contamination is thousands of times above the safe limit for bathing). The glaciers that feed the river are melting due to global warming, and dam/hydro-electric projects are… Read More…
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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing a law that would make recycling mandatory in the city. The law would require: All landlords to provide adequate recycling and composting for their tenants; Businesses that sell items (e.g., takeout food) to allow the public to deposit small amounts of recyclables, compostables and trash in their receptacles;… Read More…
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Jeff McIntire-Strasburg in Fun / Offbeat 813 days ago
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jUjxdDQixQ8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] It’s been a while since we republished a video from ZapRoot, but this is a good one: wind turbines in Road Warrior country, and the new feature on greenwashing (appropriately titled “These Guys are Full of **it!”). Enjoy!
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A new study suggests that geysers, like Old Faithful, are affected by climate conditions, such as droughts. Shaul Hurwitz, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, Ashish Kumar, a Stanford University statistician, and two National Park Service scientists have discovered that changes in the supply of underground water to a geyser can influence the amount… Read More…
