Daily Archives: February 6, 2010
Green Police Nab Super Bowl Ad for Audi
Anteater sniffs for fuel inefficient vehicles at roadblock. Photo from Audi
Cheap Trick? Yes, lead singer Robin Zander has re-recorded the band’s ’80s hit “Dream Police” for Audi’s Super Bowl “Green Police” ad tomorrow. The spot opens with an arrest at a supermarket when a customer at checkout responds to the classic Paper or Plastic question. “You’ve picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy!” More busts ensue. Tomorrow, close to 100 million are expected to watch the <a href="http://www.treehugg…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Facebook Grows Using Coal For Data Servers
I don’t really use Facebook but plenty of my friends do. They might be interested to know that the social network giant growth appears to be powered by coal, the number 1 cause of climate change. In late January, Facebook announced that its new Oregon data center, the data center farms that create the cloud that brings your friends’ updates to your computer or smart phone, will be powered by a coal plant in Idaho. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Sea Shepherd’s Bob Barker Collides With Japanese Whaler (Video)
At about noon today, Australia time, at a location about 180 miles off Cape Darnley in Australian Antarctic Territory the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker collided with the Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru 3. No injuries have been reported.
As it to be expec…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Kate Hudson, Gwen Stefani and Rihanna Rock Hands Up Not Handouts’ Artisan-Made Accessories
There are multiple layers of beauty behind the organization Hands Up Not Handouts (HUNHO) whose mission is to help empower the world’s impoverished women. How you ask? By helping them hone in on their knack for handcrafting goods from native materials which in turn, generates income that they, their families and commu…Read the full story on TreeHugger
New Pictures of Earth Tweeted From Space
Astronauts can now use Twitter to send pictures like this, of the Maldives, with their new Internet connection in space. Photos via Soichi Noguchi
In what is perhaps the final frontier for Internet access, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared photos he had taken of Earth from the International Space Station via his Twitter page. In addition to scenic locations and sprawling urban centers, Noguchi’s photos provide some of the first looks of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-P…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Extinction Threatens World’s Butt-Ugliest Fish
Photo: Sad and blobby blobfish (Greenpeace)
Without the redeeming good looks of other endangered species, the rather unfortunate-looking but aptly-named blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) may not figure in anyone’s glitzy conservation campaign. Nevertheless, the fact is that this jiggly, jelly-like creature is threatened with extinction, thanks to the overfishing antics of deep sea trawlers scraping the bottom of Australian and New Zealand waters.
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Eastern US Could Feasibly Meet 20% To 30% Of Electricity Needs From Wind By 2024
From the cover of the EWITS.
Scientists and engineers at the National Renewable Energy Lab are out of the huddle with a preliminary analysis of just how far Easterners can go with the wind. Per the recently completed Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS) [a pdf file], the eastern half of America, it is projected, can satisfy around a fifth of its future demand from wind power. This is not a “plan” by any stretch of the imagination; but, the study makes clear that both inter-state transmission line extensions and grid interconnections are…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Demolishing and Building a House with No Dumpster: The REX Project (Video)
Image credit: Shannon Quimby
Although we know that reuse should come before recycle, it’s a sad truth that the reuse industry is often overlooked when people talk about green building. But one woman is out to change all that—literally recycling/reusing an entire dilapidated house as she builds her new home. That’s right, she’s demolishing an old home, and building a new house, without using a dumpster….Read the full story on TreeHugger
So You Wanna Stop a Massive Extinction? Wear a Condom
photo: J. Novak
Matthew has written about the connection between population growth and climate change before. Improving access to family planning services and contraceptives, and ensuring that low income is no barrier to access, is crucial. But recently The Center for Biological Diversity took it a step further with its new Endangered Species Condom Project. All month long the organization will be handing out condoms which feature a series of six or…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Top Fashion Designers Think Fair Trade for EJF Cotton Campaign
Credit: EJF
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix — to name a few — for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, “childhood, lost innocence and hope” in light of EJF’s newly release report, “Slave Nation” on their campaign to end child labor in Uzbeki…Read the full story on TreeHugger
