Monthly Archives: August 2008

Interview with New Orleans Musician Amanda Shaw
With Hurricane Gustav threatening the Gulf Coast, TreeHugger’s meeting with Cajun-pop prodigy Amanda Shaw takes on a certain urgency. A shadow of concern for her family, friends and home hangs over the interview about her wetlands activism, her part in the IMAX film Hurricane on the Bayou, and her memories of Katrina.

Amanda Shaw and her band, the Cute Guys, are in Minnesota to play the 17th annual Grand Portage Bayou Boogie festival and the potentially hurrica

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After getting past the initial shock of hearing about John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, I quickly honed in on two particularly salient aspects of her environmental views: her belief that climate change is not man-made and her opposition to the polar bear’s listing as a threatened species. Now while I may not yet know much about Palin’s overall record in offic

While astronomers at the Macdonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX are studying the solar system, the BLOOMhouse has one of its own.

Nestled high up on a mountaintop outside of Fort Davis, TX is where the solar powered BLOOMhouse now resides. The BLOOMhouse was one of the entries in the biennial Solar Decathlon that was held in Washington D.C. last year to demonstrate the power of the sun to our governing bodies and public. The competition challenge

This post is one in a series of video blogs about biking across America with WE ADD UP to raise awareness about how to stop global warming. Check out more posts in this series here.

Truth be known, by the time we had biked to Wyoming, there were several times along the way where Carson was on the verge of pressing the bike trip’s red abort bu

Oslo’s city government has promised to install 400 electric car charging/parking places over the next four years. Meanwhile Norway’s electric car manufacturer THINK is turning out its THINK city cars at the rate of just three per day, which has created a local waiting list 700 customers long.

U.S.$10 gallon gas makes ‘el-bil’ look good
High prices for jet fuel may have made rap star Diddy ground his private jet for the moment, but Europeans and especially Norwegians are finding it <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29fuel.html?_r=

When TreeHugger featured Robert “Chip” Beaman’s Wood Powered Pickup Truck, readers commented, aghast at the potential for humanity to destroy woodland resources if transportation infrastructure were to switch to wood gasification. Therefore, for your further consideration, may we introduce you to Victory Gasworks. Victory Gasworks’ Ben Peterson has built his own gasifier, specializing in biomass such as wood scraps, yard waste, and corn cobs.

How Biden’s Foreign Policy Experience Supplements Obama’s Climate Policy While the traditional media has largely focused on touting Biden’s long tenure in the Senate and foreign policy expertise as key assets that will add gravitas to the Democratic campaign, it has spent little time examining how the Delaware senator’s experience could supplement Obama’s policies in other areas (the obvious ones being national security and foreign affairs, of course). Though it may not seem obvious at first blush, Biden may end up proving most valuable to Obama in lending his foreign policy chops to tackle climate change.<a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-j

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Every year, over 70 million Indians and Bangladeshi are exposed to arsenic when they consume rice, the region’s primary food staple, and water. Often portrayed as the world’s worst case of mass poisoning, this chronic exposure has been linked to increasing cancer rates and is believed to impact 6 out of every 100 people in the Bengal Delta — at least one of which will suffer from near-death symptoms. The situation is so critical that the WHO has described it as being “beyond the accidents of Bhopal, India, in 1