Daily Archives: February 3, 2010
Electric Cars, The Insanity Escalates
John Petersen On January 28th the DOE announced the closing of a $1.4 billion ATVM loan to Nissan North America, a unit of Nissan Motors (NSANY), for the purpose of retooling a factory in Smyrna, Tennessee to produce the Leaf,…
Oscar Time: Eco-Docs Get Nods
Do the Oscars matter? Ask The Cove director. Photo by Todd Wawrychuk, courtesy of ©A.M.P.A.S.
Yesterday the Academy Awards announced the nominees for the big Hollywood Oscar extravaganza on March 7. Of course, Avatar is among the ten candidates in the Best Motion Picture of the Year category, tying with the Iraqi drama, The Hurt Locker, for highest number of nominations. As a frontrunner, the record-breaking blockbuster of all-time is getting out its “controversial” environmental message, and the sci-fi epic stands a good cha…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Country’s Transit Systems Face Off
Image credit: Good
NYCT, MBTA, WMATA, BART: Which is the biggest, best, public transit system in the country? Good presents a new infographic that puts them next to each other for a face off….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Business Roundtable: We Can’t Get There Without Nuclear–An Emissions-Free Path to Greater Sustainability
Marian Hopkins of Business Roundtable is author of this guest opinion post.
In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama re-emphasized his Administration’s commitment to addressing energy and climate change issues. Experts agree there’s no one path to tackling these challenges – it’s going to take a combination of traditional and alternative sources. That’s why the President advocated for a “new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants” as part of a broad-based strategy to reduce emissions and increase our nation’s energ…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Climate Scientists Aren’t ‘Idiots Just Going Around Looking at CO2, CO2, CO2′
There relationship between greenhouse gases, aerosols, and climate sensitivity is much more complex… Photo: Codo via flickr.
While there may be consensus among mainstream scientists that climate change is definitely happening, and that human activity is responsible for it, the science is undoubtedly complex and research continues to refine our understanding of all the different elements of the equation. BoingBoing points out that one onging discussion is about how sensitive the clima…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Spectacular Brazilian Treehouses by Casa Na Arvore (Slideshow)
Photo: Courtesy Casa na Arvore.
If you’re a regular at TreeHugger, you probably know our love for treehouses: they usually have a great use of space, connect us with nature,open up ground space, and — let’s face it — they’re a lot of fun. We’ve already seen crazy designs from German firm Baumraum and seriously cool ones from several other architects, including the impossibly cool <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/sw…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Fungus is a Hot Solution to Disposing of BPA Laden Plastics
Image credit: Daquella manera/Flickr
Polycarbonate plastic is in everything from water bottles to CDs and DVDs and thousands of other consumer products. Recently, it has even worked its way into the news with reports that bisphenol A (BPA), a component of the plastic, can cause gender mutations and endocrine problems.
Disposing of polycarbonate in a way that is safe and environmentally sound has been a problem but a <a href="http://www.scien…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Says his Non-Recalled Prius has Acceleration Problem
If Woz Tells You There’s a Bug, You Better Listen
By now probably everybody reading this has heard about the massive Toyota recalls (and the now retracted comment by Ray Lahood). One of the models that hasn’t been recalled is the 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid. This might soon change, though: Uber-engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak s…Read the full story on TreeHugger
NASA Satellite Data Reveals Arctic Melting Season Now Nearly a Month Longer
This map of the Arctic shows how earlier melt onset (left), and later freeze onset (middle), have contributed to longer melt season (right), over the past 30 years. Image and credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
We’ve all heard about the extent to which Arctic sea ice is melting every summer, and how the thickness of multiyear ice is declining. Well, some new research from <a href="http:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Meet Po the Snake: He’s Addicted to Cigarettes
Photo via Metro
With habitat loss and climate change threatening ecosystems across the world, animals have enough to worry about, but now it seems some are picking up on our unhealthier habits as well. Sure, we’ve seen …Read the full story on TreeHugger
