Daily Archives: November 1, 2008
Trees Are Nature’s Climate Air Conditioners, Study Finds
Image from twoblueday
If you’re reading this, I probably don’t need to waste my time trying to convince you that trees are great. They absorb carbon dioxide, they can be used to power small remote sensors and they’re pretty darn nice to look at too. Now a new study by a
ExxonMobil Still Fighting Hard to Avoid Making Interest Payments in Valdez Oil Spill Debacle
Image from marinephotobank
For a company that supposedly prides itself on being more than just your “regular” oil firm (is it just me or was every other ad during the Beijing Olympics an ad for ExxonMobil’s “softer” side?), ExxonMobil sure has a strange way of showing it. Indeed, while it continues to rake in record profits (most of which I’m guessing does not derive from its non-oil initiatives), it has fought tooth and nail in court to avoid making the interest payments it owes to the victims of the 1989 Valdez oil spill. The <a href=”http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/ent
GE Backs Plug-in Hybrids to the Tune of $55 Million
Photo by Lisa Williams
General Electric (GE) has announced their intentions to boost their initial $30 million investment for the manufacture of the lithium-ion battery, up to $55 million with a sixth contribution. This news makes them the single most largest corporate or personal investor involved in the production of the A123 hybrid battery system, with over 9 percent ownership in the project as of now
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Kiss My Face Launches Sheer Organic Shimmers & Shines Lip Care Line
Sheer Organic Shimmers by Kiss My Face
Kiss My Face founders Bob MacLeod and Steve Byckiewicz opened their Manhattan home for the launch of SOS Sheer Organic Shimmers (lip tint) and Shines (lip gloss) and Potent & Pure Organic Face Care, their new lip and skincare lines this past Tuesday.
Read on for party highlights as well as product pictures and reviews.
The TH Interview: Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s have given us TreeHuggers plenty to think about over the past few years. Between their Climate College, “global cooling” efforts and PETA’s calls for them to use breast milk in their ice cream (say what!?), Ben & Jerry’s have managed to stay several steps ahead of the game for years.
Last week, we caught up with Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Jerry Greenfield at Maala’s 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Conferenc
New DSe Hybrid Yacht: Green, Still Expensive
photo by Island Pilot, LLC
Yachting is hardly known as an eco-friendly activity. There are few people who actually need a boat in their day-to-day life: Sea captains, fishermen, coast guardsmen, pirates. Boats are almost always a luxury item. Cars, on the other hand, are a necessary evil. Most of us wouldn’t be able to function in society without a car, but everyone—yacht-makers aside—would be able to function without a yacht. Car use, ungreen as it is, can be justified to an extent, but there is no justification for a yacht that pollutes and wastes. W
Ad Campaign for Tap Water Proclaims Obama Victory
Image courtesy of Tappening
In what’s being described as a ‘wild postings’ campaign, the anti-bottled water company Tappening will fill top markets, including Washington DC, with ads that congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the next President-elect. And the ads are debuting four days before the election.
Carbonfund.org Offsetting 3 Billion Pounds of CO2
Photo courtesy of LA Streets Blog
Three billion pounds is more carbon dioxide than many countries produce in an entire year—and thanks to 400,000 individual contributors and 1,000 business partners, that’s how much the non-profit Carbonfund.org is offsetting right now. The total comes from a diverse range of global offset projects in renewable energy, reforestation, carbon credits and
Tar Sands, Banking Crisis, & Peak Oil – Mired At The Crossroads
As expected, investment in Alberta Tar Sand (what the industry likes to refer to as “oil sands”) developments are being cut back a bit; but tar sands developers still expect to remain profitable, even if oil hits US$60/barrel.
Suncor Energy Inc., which last week rolled out massive spending cuts because of the credit crisis and slumping oil prices, said it will earn C$28 for every barrel of oil it produces should crude trade at US$60/barrel and Canadian dollar hover around US78 cents.
Via:Financial Post, Oil sands still viable at US$60 a barrel: Suncor
A Green Retreat on a Greek Island
Photo: Hotel Americana
When you live in a place where three-fourths of the population makes its living from tourism, it only makes sense to try to preserve what people come to enjoy. At the popular beach destination of Kos, one of Greece’s Dodecanese islands, “the concept of ‘going green‘ is still fairly strange,” says Hotel Americana proprietor Chris Kordistos, but she’s been taking small, steady steps to reduce her business’s impact on the island’s natural environment.