Daily Archives: March 10, 2010
A Roadmap For Taking On Coal Plant by Plant
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Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country’s Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible. Nace, the man behind the indispensable Coalswarm, lays out the case for why coal has got to go and offers a roadmap for taking…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Test Driving Volkswagen’s First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
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VW’s 2011 Touareg Hybrid
The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements–Porsche’s first ever plug-in hybrid, a new Aud…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust
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The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case–some rather unlikely champions, including GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, have continued pushing for a bill that puts a price on car…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Long Wait for the Bus? Budget Cuts Could Be the Reason
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Times are tough for everyone—including municipal governments. One are that has suffered from diminished budgets is public transport. Across the country, transit workers are losing their jobs, making it that much harder to maintain the systems and schedules. Though there are some signs of economic recovery, more public transit jobs are expected to be lost before things get better….Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Port of NY/NJ Will Replace Dirty Old Diesel Trucks to Slash Air Pollution
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Other Truck Fleets, Pay Attention
Did you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004-2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by more than half? Post 2007 diesel trucks are even better, with a reduction of soot particles by about 95% and NOx by at least 3/4. That’s a pretty big difference (though it doesn’t solve CO2 emissions), and it esp…Read the full story on TreeHugger
There Could Be Libraries For Everything
Trinity College, Dublin
TreeHugger loves Product Service Systems, where you borrow and share instead of own. They are also called libraries, and Kris De Decker of No-Tech Magazine points us to a lovely post by Brian Kaller, a former newspaper reporter now living in rural Ireland. He loves his local library, but more importantly, writes about the principle beh…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Today on Planet 100: China Signs Copenhagen Accord (Video)
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Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
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Loblaw Couldn’t Resist Ontario’s Generous Feed-in Tariff?
Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 100 stores in Ontario. This is not surprising considering how insanely generous the feed-in tariffs for solar power are in the province (between 53.9 and 80.2 ยข/kWh, with 20-year contracts). I just hope that measures have been taken to avoid repeating what happened in S…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Freakonomics Watch: “The Primitive Food Movement”
The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into “if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it” type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should be called James McWilliams Watch, since he appears to be the contributor to their blog with the most attitude about anything green. Now he is on about The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement, where “Bicycles are losing gears, runners are afoot in shoes designed to create a barefoot sensation (some are even running barefoot), and m…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Hard Rocker Joins Fight for His Homeland’s Forests
Cyclists assemble in Yerevan, Armenia, for a bike tour to Teghut Forest. Photo by Ruzanna Hovasapyan via ride-earth on Flickr.
Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, surely the world’s most famous Armenian-American rock star, sent a me…Read the full story on TreeHugger
