Photos by Nokton via Flickr CC Japan is still reeling from the nuclear radiation issues following the record-setting earthquake experienced last month. To help, one collective has come up with an interesting device — a portable Geiger counter that docks with an iPhone. By calling your iPhone, you can listen to the familiar clicks that tell just how much radiation is present in a particular area. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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iPhone Radiation Dock Will Help Japan Track Impacts of Nuclear Crisis

Photo: Wikipedia , CC Searching for Clean Power Google has been rapidly expanding its clean energy portfolio lately. Just last week we reported the $168m investment in solar thermal , and before that there were multiple investments in wind power, geothermal , etc. Now they’re investing $100m more in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in oregon. When construction is complete in 2012, it should be the world’s largest, beating the Roscoe Wind Farm in Texas (627 turbines, rated at 781.5 MW). Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Google Invests $100m in What Will be the World’s Largest Wind Farm (845 MW)

Photo credit: CoCreatr / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Robin Marty , a writer for Care2 Causes . As if we needed another excuse to have some chocolate, new research shows that it may be an effective cough suppressant, too…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Chocolate the Tastiest Natural Cough Medicine of All?

My standing desk, an old drafting table. Next project: wire management. Image Credit Lloyd Alter James Vlahos asks in the New York Times Magazine: Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? He tells of a study that used motion-tracking underwear, among other tools, to find out why some people get fat and others don’t. It turned out that some people just gotta move, while others don’t; ” On average, the subjects who gained weight sat two hours more per day than those who hadn’t.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sitting Down Makes You Fat; More Reasons To Get A Standing Desk

Image credit: Field Roast Meat Company When I posted about the vegan magazine that claims meat is vegan , commenter Shane Baker asked why vegetarians would want to eat immitation meat anyway. In many ways, it’s the same question posed by Kelly in her piece on mock meat and moving toward vegetarianism . Yet I find myself in a slightly different boat—I’m a meat eater who loves to eat fake meat. So, what’s the attraction?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Meat Eaters Like Fake Meat?

Pliocene megabiomes, image: Wikipedia . The following is a guest post from Skeptical Science by John Cook. A vivid picture of our climate’s future can be found in our past. Currently, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached 390 parts per million (ppm). The last time CO2 was that high was around 3 million years ago, in the early Pliocene . Back then, CO2 levels remained at around 365 to 410 ppm for thousands of years. Consequently, the Pliocene gives us vital clues of the long-term effects of raised CO2 levels. New research has just been published that examines this period and confirms previous findings thatA the PlioceneAwas dramatically warmer than current temperatures…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Was It Like The Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High?

Image: US House Committee on Natural Resources Here on the East Coast, it’s evening time, and many of you out there are scrambling to e-file your taxes before the deadline hits in a few hours. And as you wonder if there’s any way you can get that refund number to look a bit bigger on TurboTax, keep this in mind: multibillion dollar corporations are paying less taxes than you are. A much-deserved hubbub has already arisen over GE’s not only paying $0 in taxes, but receiving a $3.2 billion refund — but there are of course other companies out there skirting their obligation to Uncle Sam, too. And one of them just happens to be everybody’s favorite (well, maybe 2nd favorite now …) oil company, Exxon Mobil. Yes, if Exxon pulls the same trick it did last year, it will again pay zilch in corporate taxes . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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It’s Tax Day. But Not for Exxon, Which Pays $0 in Federal Taxes

Craigslist is a major resource in buying or trading used goods, and this might be my new favorite tool for helping me shop second hand. Insead of searching item by item, you can search by glancing through just the images, thanks to a simple bookmarklet. You can start a search on Craigslist, click the button, and be able to view all the listings with their images on one page. Talk about time-saving! Watch a 45 second video on how it works. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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CraigsEasy Is An Awesome Way to Search for Stuff on Craigslist

Image: Bike Repair screenshot. For iPhone, iPad, and Android Bike Repair HD is an inexpensive app for iPhone, iPad, and Android that can help you both learn how to do most of your bike maintenance yourself and save some money (at $2.99, the app pays for itself quickly if it avoids you trips to the bike repair shop). It covers more than 50 most common bicycle problems and solutions where instructions were explained in step by step, supported by more than 150 “studio quality photos”. Check out the video demo below…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bike Repair App: A Bike Repair Shop in Your Pocket!

Photo by aeroSoul via Flickr CC Marijuana is a big industry in the US, especially as medical use of marijuana becomes more popular. And while we expect grow houses with tons of energy-sucking lights to have high bills, it might be a surprise to see the grand total the industry spends on electricity every year. It adds up to 20 terawatt-hours per year — which is about 1% of national electricity consumption, or the output of seven large power plants. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Marijuana Industry Responsible for 1% of US Electricity Consumption, Has $5 Billion Energy Bill