Daily Archives: February 8, 2010
Carbon Footprints In The Snow: Then & Now
Pedestrian braves the street, avoiding the un-shoveled sidewalk. Image credit:The Hook, photo by Hawes Spencer
Having grown up where snow up to the windows was normal, it is with amazement that I view my fellow Southeastern Pennsylvanians dealing with serious snow. Two honest-feet fell Friday night; and, another two feet are predicted starting tomorrow night. Pretty crazy. Unless you are a denialist or a meteorologist, looking out the window, you’d think the climate had c…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Migrating Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at Speeds of up to 60 MPH
Photo: Wikipedia, CC
What Can We Learn From The Highways in the Sky
digg_url = ‘http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/migrating-insects-fast-winds-60mph-science-study-biomimicry.php’;Science recently published a study titled “Flight Orienta…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Pachauri. Semi-autographical Sex Tinged Novel. Oh Boy.
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The UN’s top climate official and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Rajendra Pachauri, has penned a novel that reportedly mixes global warming lectures with steamy sex scenes involving a male protagonist that resembles Pachauri himself. An engineer by training, Pachauri has endured the recent failings in Copenhagen and the recent attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over charges that the group wasn’t careful enough when editing their 2007 global warming assessment….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad
Photo via UC Berkeley
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A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources–and this times it…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Smart Grid’s Expected 250% 5-Yr Growth Rate is Great News for Cisco, IBM, Accenture, EnerNOC
Bill Paul Lux Research forecast last week that the global smart grid market will grow some 250% over the next five years, reaching nearly $16 billion by 2015 compared with today’s $4.5 billion. Interestingly, Lux further forecast that only a…
Report: Exxon Still Orchestrating Campaign to “Undermine Public Acceptance of Global Warming”
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I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exemplifies the archetype of the nefarious, greed-driven, monolithic corporation than Exxon. Besides Haliburton. You have until the end of this blog post to do so. But it’s a tall order: Exxon is behind …Read the full story on TreeHugger
RETECH 2010: Challenges and Opportunities in Renewable Energy
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With Tesla officially filing their IPO papers, it seems like renewable energy is entering a new era of marketability. Such small successes, however, may not be representative of trends. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Does Audi’s ‘Green Police’ Superbowl Ad Reveal a Shifting Paradigm? (Video)
Photo via World Sports Tribune
Much has been made of this year’s generally crappy Super Bowl ads. But in the green community, one ad has been showing up repeatedly on just about every enviro blog out there: the Audi “Green Police” ad. We even covered it here before the game, where it was already causing a stir. And that stir isn’t over the product or the company selling the product. It’s over the ad’s bizarre method …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Today on Planet 100: Kamikaze Iguanas (Video)
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Support Local Business: Help Build One
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We have all seen “buy local” campaigns, but what about taking it to the next level: Investing locally?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
