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Monthly Archives: December 2009

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The Week in Pictures: Wind Turbine Christmas Star, 10 Years in Green, Mutant Superbugs, and More

| Published December 31, 2009

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From the world’s largest Christmas star that now hovers above the A9 Autobahn near Munich’s northern gateway–after a year of engineering, modeling, and trials–to the renaming of the world’s tallest waterfall–deep within the Venezuelan jungle–a lot happened this week in green. New research reveals that excessive use of disinfectants could be spawning mutant bacteria capable of resisting the strongest antibiotics, readers sent in the green New Year’s resolutions for our weekly slideshow, and we continued to round out the year with our Decade in Review and Best and Worst of 2009. Find out what else happened in the world of…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in TH Exclusives, holidays, image galleries, wind power | Tagged christmas star, mutant bacteria, tallest waterfall, venezuelan jungle, wind turbine | Leave a comment

2009 Year of the Mannahatta Project

| Published December 31, 2009

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photo via WCS

Most people when they think back on 2009 might not think of it as the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s famous voyage of 1609, but for fans of the Mannahatta Project, it has been a year to celebrate. Mannahatta, the book was a big hit, mentioned on many holiday-round up lists, including an Editor’s Choice from Barnes & Noble and Planetizen’s list of best urban design books. There were also wonderful exhibitions at the Mus…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Travel & Nature, conservation, deforestation, exhibits, new york city | Tagged barnes noble, design books, henry hudson, planetizen, urban design | Leave a comment

Japanese Scientists Create See-Through Goldfish

| Published December 31, 2009

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Photos via AFP

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Japanese researchers have produced a new species of goldfish with see-through skin. You can see the fish’s beating heart, brain, and other internal organs, right through its invisible scales. And that’s precisely the point–the scientists created the fish to eliminate the need for dissections, which are getting ever more controversial…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Science & Technology, Travel & Nature, animals, conservation, fish | Tagged beating heart, digg, internal organs, japanese researchers, japanese scientists | Leave a comment

Watch New Year’s Countdowns Around the World and Jump Start Your Green Resolutions

| Published December 31, 2009

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Are fireworks green? Photo by Kev Gibbo via Flickr

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other, as the saying goes. So start by staying home tonight and watch Earthcam to see New Year’s Eve celebrations in 35 locations around the world. Earthcam will webcast the LED ball drop in Times Square from various viewpoints among the crowd of one million gathered for the world’s largest party. So save fuel…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Culture & Celebrity, activism, global warming solutions, new york | Tagged crowd of one, earthcam, eve celebrations, gibbo, green photo | Leave a comment

The Case of San Francisco’s Disappearing Sea Lions

| Published December 31, 2009

disappearing sea lions san francisco photo
Photo via IndoSpectrum

As early as last month, there were estimated to be at least 1500 sea lions off of San Francisco’s famous Pier 39. Now, most appear to have all but vanished. A few stragglers lounge on piers where hundreds of sea lions used to lay in massive stacks–so where did the famous mammals go?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Travel & Nature, animals, conservation, media | Tagged mammals, pier 39, piers, sea lions, stragglers | Leave a comment

Activists to Spend New Year’s in Jail for Flying Anti-Coal Banner

| Published December 31, 2009

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Photo via Climate Ground Zero

In what could turn out to be a violation of their constitutional rights, 4 climate activists were arrested and taken to jail last Tuesday for trespassing. Specifically, they were charged for hanging up a banner that read “Yes, Coal is Killing West Virginia’s Communities” during a peaceful demonstration on October 10th. But the activists have been held in jail for 2 days now on that charge–a charge that is typically handled by a summons by mail, and for which the maximum fine is a scant $100. And it looks like they’ll be sp…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, activism, coal, global climate change, global warming solutions | Tagged constitutional rights, ground zero, last tuesday, Mail, peaceful demonstration | Leave a comment

Best and Worst of 2009: The Year (and Decade) in Review

| Published December 31, 2009

best and worst of 2009 review

In another week, it’s out with the old and in with the new, but what about that old? Now’s the time to reflect on the big events, the changes to the world as we know it. Over the next two weeks, we will dish up a total of 14 slideshows, focusing on subjects including wild and weird new species that first showed their scaly, slimy, and sometime furry heads in 2009; some unbelievable green tech concepts (solar powered headphones, anyone?); the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright crazy lobbying efforts (yes, that forged letter incident made the cut); the year in cars, the year in Digg and Stumble Upon stories, and much more.

We…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation, Culture & Celebrity, Design & Architecture, Food & Health, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature, animals, appliances, architecture, buildings, electric cars, endangered species, hybrid cars | Tagged decade, digg, headphones, slideshows, stumble upon | Leave a comment

The Green Drinks Tokyo Holiday Dispatch

| Published December 31, 2009

greenz-jp-christmas-party photoRevelers rejoice at the greenz.jp Christmas party in Tokyo.

It’s time when everybody thinks how they can spend a fun, entertaining and warm time with friends and families. But it’s also a time to re-think how fortunate we are to be able to celebrate this happiness. So we decided to throw not just an ordinary Christmas party but something that would be meaningful and fulfilling to many people. At greenz.jp, we held the green drinks Tokyo Xmas Special kindly supported by Sanyo Electric’s eneloop…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, Culture & Celebrity, christmas, holidays, japan, tokyo | Tagged christmas party, eneloop, greenz, revelers, sanyo electric | Leave a comment

And Thus Ends the Hottest Decade on Record . . .

| Published December 31, 2009

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Photo via the Portland Mercury

Yup, the aughts or naughts or naughties or whatever you want to call them have been confirmed to be the hottest decade in recorded history–a full 0.2 degrees C warmer than the nineties. And now, as Joe Romm puts it, “the hottest decade begins.” So were do we stand?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, global climate change, global warming consequences, global warming solutions | Tagged joe romm, naughties, nineties, portland mercury, treehugger | Leave a comment

Fireworks: Ungreen Or A Necessary Part Of Ringing In The New Year?

| Published December 31, 2009

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Dear Pablo: What is the environmental impact of fireworks? It seems like it must create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.

That is a very popular question around the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve. In fact I have answered this question before. The following answer originally appeared on Salon.com in June of 2008.

Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, estimates that 18,000 fireworks shows occur across the nation on July 4 alone. Totals …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Science & Technology, ask treehugger, carbon dioxide, global warming, greenhouse gas | Tagged american pyrotechnics association, greenhouse gas emissions, heckman, mr magoo, ringing in the new year | Leave a comment
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