21 Year Old “Cathedral of Junk” Dismantled After Neighbours Complain
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Austin used to be funky; as the Wall Street Journal notes, “For decades a college town with abundant cheap housing, Austin was a magnet for hippies, slackers and musicians looking for a care-free existence. They livened up the city with their music, art and festivals.” It also attracted artists like Vince Hannemann who 21 years ago started building a sixty-ton structure out of hundreds of bikes, mattresses, compact disks and other junk. It b…Read the full story on TreeHugger
What the? Americans Support Even More Offshore Drilling, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds
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Surprise. Even in aftermath of the April 20 Gulf of Oil Mexico disaster, a majority of people in the U.S. still support more offshore drilling. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Wine Goes Hyper-Local As Urban Wineries Catch On
Dashe Cellars in Oakland; Erin Kunkel for The Wall Street Journal
A vineyard in Napa is expensive and grapes take a long time to grow. But lots of wineries buy their grapes from vineyards they don’t own, so why do it out in the country when you can be near your customers?
In Oakland, California, warehouse space is cheap; Ben Worthal of The Wall Street Journal writes that the City actually gives money to people who…Read the full story on TreeHugger
News Corp. Going Carbon Neutral, Fox News Still Going Nuts
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Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of the infamous News Corp. — the multinational company that owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the NY Post and more — has made noise in the past about greening up his company’s act. And now it’s official: By the end of this year, News Corp. will be carbon neutral if things go according to plan. Yup, that means that the company that owns Fox News will be one of the greenest big companies in the world. Interesting. And so I pose the question: wouldn’t the greener thing to do to yank your network’s irresponsible, fact…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The New York Times’s Green Inc. Has a New Name and Mission
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A few months after the Wall Street Journal shut down its green blog, Environmental Capital, the New York Times forging ahead in the opposite direction by broadening the coverage of its green blog. To highlight the change in mission, Green Inc. will now be known as simply Green (not exactly a standout name, but we’ll probably refer to it as NYT Green or something like that). …Read the full story on TreeHugger
iPad Version of Wall Street Journal Priced at $17.99 A Month – Too Expensive, or Right on Target?
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Magazines and newspapers have been in their death throes for years now, and it seems like the iPad is not only the final stake in their heart, but also the very thing giving them the launch they need to rise from the dead in a new digital body. However, the pricing of the new format of favorite magazines and newspapers could leave some readers gawking. If things are going digital, shouldn’t they cost pennies on the dollar for what they’re priced at in hard copy form…Read the full story on TreeHugger
This Week In CCS News: AEP Is Bullish On West Virginia Test Project
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The great hope of those who want coal to remain at the center of our energy mix–CCS–received special attention this week from Mike Morris, head of American Electric Power, the nation’s largest utility. At a conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Morris touted the progress of AEP’s test carbon capture and sequestration project in West Virginia. The project, which is backed by Department of Energy funding, is now capturing and storing about 2 percent of the emissions from the New Haven coal-f…Read the full story on TreeHugger
California Mulls Cap-and-Dividend Program – Families Could Get $1000 Back Per Year
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Alternatives to the ascendant cap and trade method of setting a price on carbon and hopefully reducing greenhouse gas emission are slowly building. Example: The Wall Street Journal reports that a California state panel reviewing the best way to allocate funds from a carbon control plan set to begin in 2012 are considering giving it straight back to the people–a <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/is-cap-and-divi…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Houses Get Small (Sort Of) In Response to Recession
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Is it just the economy or is there a real change going on? Michael Phillips writes in the Wall Street Journal about how builders are offering smaller houses than they have in years. The Scarlett O’Hara stairs and two storey halls are out, and the plans are simpler, square-er, and way more efficient. Some might say that it is simply a response to the economy; as one commenter said ” In a down economy smaller houses sell, and in a good economy bigger houses sell. Unless we have all …Read the full story on TreeHugger
US and China Strike a Deal On Renewable Energy Information Sharing
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Presidents Obama and Hu Jintao made the wrong sort of news this past weekend when they dashed any hope of a binding treaty next month in Copenhagen. But today they made news for the right reasons, agreeing on a new partnership between their two nations–the biggest two polluters on the planet–to share information about renewable energy technolog…Read the full story on TreeHugger