Daily Archives: November 11, 2008

Photo credited to Thingermeijig

The well crafted Piaggio three-wheel scooter has gone where few scooters have gone before

totally green!

Whether you deem yours male or female, it won’t fall down every time a sexy woman or man walks by (hence the photo), thanks to it three wheel stability http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/mgm-102b-hybrid-wheels.html. The MP3 scooter from Piaggio has had mixed reviews on its (thre

Most of the time these photos are merely reprentative of type of project written about, but this really is the Kentish Flats wind farm, which Vattenfall operates. Photo: Phil Hollmann.

Swedish firm Vattenfall, which already operates the 90 MW Kentish Flats offshore wind farm, has announced that it has paid £35 million ($53.8 million) for the rights to develop the Thanet Offshore Wind Project, off Margate, Kent. Total costs for the project, which is expected to be completed in 2010, are expected to be about £780 million ($1.2 billion).

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photo: Nils Geylan

At the time of this writing, Barack Obama has been president-elect for less than a week and no one is wasting any time in making suggestions for actions he should take once he’s President Obama. The Center for Progressive Reform passed on their suggestions for 7 Executive Orders for the President’s First 100 Days and so I pass them on to you to debate, discuss and otherwise armchair analyze.

They cover a range of perennial issues familiar to TreeHugger reade

:: Rather do the green thing and fix–not ditch–your (insert electronic device or appliance here)? Unless you are super organized, it’s likely you’ve lost the user’s manual. Luckily, a large medley of manuals can be found online.

:: Skip the stale supermarket cake and throw a green office party. Balloons and streamers not welcome.

:: Hurry up and submit your best handmade holiday decorations to CRAFT magazine’s <a href=”http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/diy-recycled-holiday-decorati

Lets call recycling what it is- a fraud, a sham, a scam perpetrated by big business on the citizens and municipalities of America. Look who sponsors the National Recycling Coalition: behind America Recycles Day: Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Owens-Illinois, International Bottled Water Association, the same people who brought you that other fraud, Keep America Beautiful.

Recycling is simply the transfer of producer responsibility for what they produce to the taxpayer who has to pick it up and take it away.

Image Source: Egg Baby

Just in time for the Holiday Season, several childrens clothing outfits offer cute new choices. One label is offering prizes to the winner of their design contest. Another has cute peace sayings on kids tops, while a third offers more upscale childrens clothing designs. A UK-based kids clothier even allows you to purchase carbon offsets and a cleaning company adds toy cleaning products to their line. The companies are US and UK based and now available online and in a few retail stores. While its easy to deny buying products for grownups, its hard to make a kid go through life without toys or any c

Welcome to our new “TreeHugger Deals” column, which will run every Tuesday and is exclusively for TreeHugger readers.

This week’s TreeHugger Deals comes to you from To-Go Ware, a company whose mission is to provide consumers the tools to reduce the amount of single-use plastics and other disposable foodware products that are so prevalent and toxic in today’s society. To-Go Ware’s offerings include stainless food containers, bamboo utensils and many other hand-crafted accessories for all of us that have such busy lives.

From now throu

“Frugal is the New Black” say the trendsetters. This isn’t news to TreeHugger readers, nor is it particularly original; during the World Wars, that is how one lived. Sometimes people needed a little encouragement, so the the creatives got to work designing posters, telling people to save instead of spend, fix instead of buy new, grow instead of shop at the grocery, all messages that resonate today.

Have a look at a few of them in our inaugural slideshow of Frugal Green Living: Posters for the Movement

Image: Getty Images/Pamela Moore

With all the planning, cooking, and cleaning, the last thing you want to think about is greening your Thanksgiving, right? But this is the perfect time to reflect and reassess your holiday preparations with a nod to sustainability.

It’s not as hard as you might think. We’ve broken it down to make Thanksgiving an easy, eco-friendly, and fun holiday for all involved. Follow our countdown and you can make an easy transition to a more sustainable holiday tradition. With extensive tips on menu planning, decorating, shopping, cleaning and more, we’ve got you covered from now ’til leftovers

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John-Paul Flintoff of the Times drove to Oxford and back, a total of a hundred miles, and noticed that he had a bottle of water on the seat. He wondered how much energy it took to move it.

I converted the weight of the bottle (1 kilo) into pounds, and divided the distance (100 miles) into feet, using one of many online conversion sites. Then I converted the total number of foot-pounds into kilowatt hours. The result: 0.437 477 242 4.

In other words, if I had left the bottle at home I could more usefully have used the same amount of energy to light my house all evening.</blockqu