Robert Llewellyn’s Gearless Update: Reviewing the MiEV and Much More (Video)
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I was quite excited the other day to learn about Robert Llewellyn’s Gearless show in which he will be driving and reviewing a Mitsubishi MiEV over the course of an entire year. (Robert previously filmed a test drive of the MiEV for his carpool show.) But I wasn’t entirely clear on what exactly he will be doing to fill up the entire year. In the video b…Read the full story on TreeHugger
World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner
Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society.
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com’s Naturally Green section.
Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Energy & Fuels, which revealed conventional crude oil production might peak in 2014–…Read the full story on TreeHugger
What Does Sustainability Look Like? Photos From Around the World (Slideshow)
A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar.
What does “sustainability” mean to you? That’s the question that JPG Magazine, a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online community, who posted hundreds of images of peaceful landscapes, freshly grown <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/green-roo…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage
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TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before, and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores, but we’ve never done much on electric chainsaws. I’m thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface dons his cruelty-free mask and pays us a visit. Although if this serial killer’s competence i…Read the full story on TreeHugger
More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors
photo: Alex Lang via flickr.
Here’s a new twist on biomass gasification, one which more or less merges it with solar thermal. Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of the sun to vaporize biomass and turn it into syngas:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon
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Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals. Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That’s right, Paignton zoo is seriously looking at getting into poop power. Elephant poop. And that’s just one element of this innovative zoo’s quest to slash its carbon emissions….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Green Coffee Table Makes Energy Enough to Power Your Stuff
Photo via Nectar
For people who aren’t satisfied with the fact that the greenest thing about their coffee table is the mug of organically grown joe resting on top of it, finally there’s a truly appealing alternative in the Voltpot. Not only does its grassy surface bring a bit of oxygen producing plant-life to your living room–the metabolic process is captured and converted to energy to char…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard – Only California’s is Higher
Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr.
Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state’s <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/higher-national-renewable-…Read the full story on TreeHugger
China’s Changing Economy
In Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, I have presented a plan to dramatically reduce carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. In the push to reduce emissions, all eyes are on China, the world’s most populous country and now also the world’s top carbon emitter. Here are some highlights from the Plan B 4.0 datasets on China’s energy economy:
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US Gains 2500 Gigawatts of Wind Power Potential Thanks to Taller Turbines
photo: John Schanlaub via flickr.
A new analysis of the United States’ wind power potential for the lower 48 states has been released by AWS Truewind and shows that increases turbine height mean the nation gains an additional 2,500 gigawatts of onshore power….Read the full story on TreeHugger
