Teenagers Plant ‘Seeds of Peace’ at a Unique Summer Camp in Maine
Image courtesy of Michelle Kaufmann, Seeds of Peace
All of the media around questions of the mosque being built near Ground Zero is a powerful reminder of how intense and raw feelings are and how quickly those those feelings can turn to hatred and to violence. Hatred of the other is at the root of what caused the horrific and devastating loss on September 11, 2001. How do we stop the this ever increasing spiral of fear and hate?
A group of teenagers may have some answers for us….Read the full story on TreeHugger
There’s A Lot Less Coal Out There Than We Think – But That’s Not Civilization’s End
photo: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo via flickr
TreeHugger has covered the uncomfortable and largely under-publicized topic of peak coal on a number of occasions, but David Roberts over at Grist just brought it up again–and it’s a topic certainly worth revisiting as the future implications are great. I’ll take the question out of R…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Problem With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Conservation
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As the value of endangered animal parts on the black market has increased, poachers have been able to upgrade and expand their operations. Now, gangs, armed with helicopters and weapons—and financed by foreign cartels—perform stealth raids that <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/07/poachers-kill-last-female-white-rhino-south-african-reserve.p…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Nissan Diverts 2/3 of Electric LEAFs from U.S. to Japan
Photo: Nissan
Only 3,300 LEAFs in U.S. Until March 2011
One of the things that makes the Nissan LEAF electric car so promising is that Nissan was aiming for mass-production from the very beginning (f.ex. The Smyrna plant is expected to produce up to 150,000 vehicles annually, and there are other high-capacity Nissan EV plants in Oppama, Japan and Sunderland, England). Other car makers are no doubt thinking about big numbers for their upcoming EVs, but so far they’ve been more timid… In any case, it looks like would-be buyers of the LEAF in the United States will have to be patient,…Read the full story on TreeHugger
How Bad Is Overfishing & What Can Be Done to Stop It?
photo: Jim G via flickr
By now you’d have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world’s oceans. The good news is, though the future for fish looks pretty dire if we keep up how we’ve been fishing, we already have seen conservation successes to show the way forward and stop overfishing….Read the full story on TreeHugger
EPA Changes Rules For Cement Industry, Cleaning Up Mercury Pollutants
photo via flickr
The Obama administration has been on the receiving end of a lot of heat lately, and deservedly so after it chose to let the climate bill whither on the vine. But lost in the shuffle are many of the other positive steps the administration is taking to preserve our environment. Case in point: Today EPA finalized regulations the will require cement kilns to reduce emissions of mercury and other pollutants by more than 90 percent, a step that will save money and improve public health….Read the full story on TreeHugger
What Happened to the Oil from the BP Spill (Pic)
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Okay, so the BP spill narrative du jour is that all the oil has disappeared — dispersed, burned, skimmed away, or magically vanished. Stephen Colbert said he’d found it, but he was mostly kidding. There’s only one quarter of the stuff left posing any real threat, according to federal scientists (though it’s probably worth <a…Read the full story on TreeHugger
BP Spill the Biggest Accidental Oil Release in World History
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Federal scientists have just released the most precise estimates of the BP Gulf spill yet, and as you’ve come to expect from the trend thus far of these revised estimates, the new picture is bleaker than ever. Nearly 5 million barrels are now thought to have been spewed the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the disaster at the Deepwater Horizon site. That brings the BP Gulf spill to an astonishing new milestone: it is now the largest accidental release of oil in the world. Congratulations, BP….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy Efficiency
Bedbug. Image credit:wikipedia
Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awful from an environmental standpoint: like cooking an entire apartment building to bake them out, repeatedly washing all cloths and linens in hot water, and paying for multiple (often ineffective) pesticide applications. It gets worse….Read the full story on TreeHugger
California’s ‘Controversial’ Climate Law Supported by Overwhelming Majority
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that AB 32, California’s climate change law, was truly controversial. Republican candidates running for office this year have taken to publicly bashing it, calling it a job killer and worse. And given that the effort to reign in carbon emissions on a national level just deflated because it was viewed by senators as too controversial as well, you might think that fighting climate change is a contentious issue across the board. Well, it’s not. No matter how badly California’s GOP hopefuls batter the law, the public st…Read the full story on TreeHugger
