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Test Driving Volkswagen’s First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
Test Driving Volkswagen’s First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
Photo via MotorTrend 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 Here is the original post: Test Driving Volkswagen’s First...
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Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust
Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust
Photo via Whatson 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...
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Long Wait for the Bus? Budget Cuts Could Be the Reason
Long Wait for the Bus? Budget Cuts Could Be the Reason
Image credit: Good 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...
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The Port of NY/NJ Will Replace Dirty Old Diesel Trucks to Slash Air Pollution
The Port of NY/NJ Will Replace Dirty Old Diesel Trucks to Slash Air Pollution
Photo: Public domain 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...
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There Could Be Libraries For Everything
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...
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Today on Planet 100: China Signs Copenhagen Accord (Video)
Original post: 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
Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
Photo: Google Maps 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...
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Freakonomics Watch: "The Primitive Food Movement"
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...
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Hard Rocker Joins Fight for His Homeland’s Forests
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...
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All-Black Penguin Discovered, Seems Underdressed
All-Black Penguin Discovered, Seems Underdressed
Photo via Andrew Evans of the National Geographic King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance–but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a “one in a zillion kind of mutation,” biologists say that...
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