Monthly Archives: October 2008

Image from Nature Geoscience

Desperate times call for desperate measures — and, no, I’m not talking about the financial crisis. Giving new legitimacy to the study of geoengineering, the Royal Society announced yesterday that it would conduct a large-scale review of the various proposed planetary engineering schemes, such as iron fertilization and space mirrors, reports The Guardian’s Alok Jha. (It recently <a href=”http://journals

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I liked this cartoon by High Moon over at Japan for Sustainability. I never thought about it quite this way before. Ranking the 3 Rs in order of importance, they give Reduce the first place, followed by Reuse and a third place for Recycle. Or should they all rank the same?

JFS also has a cute website for kids, called Create Your Future. Do have a look!

When something doesn’t meet your expectations, when it falls short by some distance of what it originally promised, it is easy to feel a little despondent. When it actually doesn’t fall short, but proves itself to be a complex web of evil lies and deceit then you feel downright hostile.
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Biking in Mexico City? No, it’s not an extreme sport for thrill-seekers. It’s a weekend pastime for families thanks to a program called Muevete en Bici program, or Get on Your Bicycle. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s initiative, launched one year ago, closes approximate 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) of major thoroughfares to car traffic, temporarily transforming the traffic-clogged streets into a public p

Photo via Arwen Abendstern

Feel like voting for a good idea and helping to make it happen? Dream Village has come up with a great idea for writing inspirational true-story books for kids that get them revved up about social change and environmental activism. The organization is a nonprofit that raises funds for activism, which the kids who read the books can decide how best to use.

They need your vote to win funding for their project. Read on

Photo credit: Loyale

TreeHugger would like to congratulate Jenny Hwa, owner and designer of eco-chic fashion label Loyale, for making O the Oprah Magazine’s White House Leadership Project.

More than 3,000 women applied for the contest last spring, and the 80 winners were invited to attend a three-day crash course in New York CIty on creating change in the world, with coaching from top women leaders in the country.

image: Bolthouse Farms

Wm. Bolthouse Farms, grower and marketer of a wide range of juices, salad dressings and carrots (including the organic brand “Earthbound Farm”), has announced that it has installed a solar power system at its Palmdale, California location which will supply 80% of the sites electricity needs.

The 1.9MW solar array will be owned and operated by MMA Renewable Ventures under a long-term power purchase agreement with Bolthouse Farms. Explaining the benefits of using a PPA instead of buying the panels outright, Bolthouse issued the follow statement:

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Photo via MrBill

Apparently it only took the economy taking a tumble to finally get AT&T to install some “duh” energy-saving (and therefore money-saving) software onto 310,000 desktop computers at their US facilities. This tiny fix adds up to some huge numbers

photo: Casey Lessard

In case you needed any more reinforcement of the idea that one of the best way to move out of the current financial morass is by promoting and expanding the green job sector, a new report from Worldwatch Institute called Green Jobs: Working for People and the Environment outlines the scale of green jobs already out there and advocates that a “bailout for the environment” can create jobs on a global level and “help rebuild communities amidst the ashes of the current economic crisis.”

So this is a bit of the overview