image: Solar Sailor Holdings I have to say that usually when I hear about a solar-powered boat I’m a bit skeptical — often the solar power is just used for lighting or other equipment and not propulsion — but not so with Kong Kong’s four new solar-powered ferries. Solar power will supply three-quarters of their power, with liquid petroleum gas supplying the remainder.
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Four New Solar-Powered Ferries Coming to Hong Kong
Photo credits Lundberg Design and Streetsblog via Jetson Green Preston at Jetson Green calls it “an interesting collaboration of five different organizations: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc., Lundberg Design , 3Form , and Konarka .” They are lovely things with Konarka flexible photovoltaics … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wavy Solar Transit Shelters Are Lovely, But At What Price?
Photo via Valley Vistas As you hopefully know by now, August is a special month round these parts. That’s because it’s Blue August – a month of not only a focus on all things marine here on TreeHugger, but also a month of awesome TV programming and online content on everything related to water over at sister site Planet Green . To get started on an eco-active foot, there’s a challenge being issued to you – Clear Out the Beaches!… Read the full story on TreeHugger
photo: netlancer2006 via flickr India may still maintain it will not accept binding emissions targets , but it’s sure stepping up on solar power , and now on carbon storage through forest preservation. Reuters… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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India to Spend $200 Million on Forest Conservation & Preservation – All For Carbon Storage
Photo via Shoot the Messenger NYC Okay, I’m sick of the climate bill, too . But when I stumbled upon this little ditty, courtesy of Auto Tune the News , I had to share it (though maybe you’ve heard it already). I mean, it’s Pelosi, Michelle Bachmann, and House Minority Leader John Boehner ‘singing’ about the climate bill. And it’s hilarious…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, and Michelle Bachman Sing Duet About Climate Bill (VIDEO)
photo: Phillip Capper via flickr We all know that the state of the world’s fisheries is pretty dire, with overfishing rampant and fish stock collapse likely in many places if something isn’t done about it. A new paper in the journal Science gives some hope, saying that management efforts to prevent overfishing are working. H… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Overfishing is Slowing, But Only in Areas With Good Fisheries Management
Image via McKinsey Energy efficiency is always touted at the primary (and easiest) option for saving both money and the environment. Yet so many people are slow to latch on. Perhaps a new figure put out by the latest McKinsey Report will get people to make a mad dash towards energy efficiency. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Just How Many Trillions of Dollars Can Energy Efficiency Save Us?
Acciona solar thermal plant in Nevada. (Credit: Acciona) The U.S. Army on Friday detailed what it expects to be the Department of Defense’s largest solar energy project–a 500-megawatt installation at the Fort Irwin base in the Mojave Desert in California. The solar power will be generated by both …
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Sun power: Army unveils giant solar project
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commissions’ Rising Tides Competition sought ideas “from practical and pragmatic to aggressively imaginative and speculative” to deal with rising water levels that will result from climate change. The judges had a problem; there were so many wildly divergent but interesting proposals that instead of giving out a top prize and secondary prizes, they just divided the prize pool among six winners. Thom Faulders of Faulders Studio certainly fell into the aggressively imaginative category: a “dike” made of lasers that will let citizens know what their city will… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Raydike Tells It Like It Will Be When The Water Levels Rise
photo: Jason Taellious via flick Chinese government owning up to some of its less savory acts , or even admitting that those might ever exist in the first place, doesn’t happen all the time. So, news of a Chinese court accepting a the nation’s first lawsuit by an environmental group against a local government certainly bears noting. The details of the case, via the
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The People Versus The People? China Accepts First Environmental Lawsuit Against the Government