T. Boone Pickens interviewed on Glenn Beck Show. Glenn Beck spoke previously with billionaire T. Boone Pickens, as described in The Future of Energy’ according to Boone Pickens . Both the transcript of that discussion, and a Beck Show interview of Pickens (clip above) are interesting for their cont… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Clean Tech Becoming A Socialist Plot?

Image via: Shark Safe You’ve probably seen the lists floating around denoting which fish are safe to eat. These lists are based on a variety of factors – overfishing, mercury toxicity, and rarity. Eating sharks or shark fin soup is a no-no and clearly not on those lists. So, if you’re not eating sharks, why do you have to worry about shark safe food?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What do Sharks Have to do With Sustainable Seafood?

There’s a reason why this app didn’t make it into our list of iPhone apps that help you live a green life . Mainly because it’s an app that only incredibly offensive or down right pathetic iPhone users would admit to having on their phone. It tells you how to score with various “types” of women, including TreeHuggers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pepsi Launches Eye Roll-Worthy iPhone App for How to Score With TreeHuggers

Photo via Flickr Running a clothes drier sucks up 6% of a household’s energy usage. So, as Americans across the country sought to save money and conserve electricity, many turned to clotheslines –only to discover that they weren’t allowed in their communities. In fact, hanging clotheslines was against the rules in so many communities nationwide that state governments are being forced to step in and make it against th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fight to Legalize Clotheslines Sweeps the US

Image via iTech Dynamic Okay, so it isn’t exactly weird, but it certainly falls into the list of random gadgety places we see solar cells being applied. It’s the iTech Dynamic SolarVoice 908 Bluetooth headset, and it claims to have “infinite standby time under sunlight.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weird Solar Device of the Day: Solar Powered Bluetooth Headset

photo: Rupert Taylor-Price via flickr. Here’s a pretty concrete effect of warming temperatures and long-term glacier melting in the Himalayas : The Guardian is reporting that climbers waiting to ascend the world’s highest peak are seeing house flies at the 17,585′ high base camp:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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House Flies at Everest Base Camp Effect of Warmer Temps

Civil societies protested in front of the UN conference center in Bangkok, demanding rich nations to step up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Mongkhonsavat Luengvorapant/Oxfam. By the time climate talks in Bangkok wrapped up last week, developing nations hadn’t only accused the world’s richest (Annex I) countries of

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Q&A: Antonio Hill, Oxfam’s Climate Envoy, Sees Progress, But We Need a “Major Turnaround”

photo: Mike Powell via flickr. Aviation accounts for only 3% of carbon emissions from the global transport sector, but it’s a number that’s growing. Not to mention that those emissions often have a higher warming potential than ones emitted elsewhere. Radiative forcing anyone? Well, to address these concerns the International Air Transport Association committed Saturday to new emission reductions targets and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Airlines Pledge to Cut Emissions 50% by 2050

In working through a backlog of posts we should’ve brought to you earlier, we present the Bigfish folding bike. In a strange reversal or trade, the bicycle was designed in Slovenia and is made in Italy. Yet sells for just £495 in the UK, €600 in Europe and $549 in the US, which is quite decent for a folding bike, particularly one made in Europe. It’s main claim to fame is that it can be either folded or unfolded in 15 seconds. without need of any tools, and without any hi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gone in 17 Seconds. The Bigfish Bike Folds and Unfolds Fast

photo: J.Novak From açai to goji and raw cocoa to spirulina, superfoods have blossomed into an industry that’s expected to reel in upwards of $10 billion by 2011, according to Small Footprint Family . I admit at first I was in awe of such luxurious ingredients, day dreaming of being wrinkle-free at 100 and doing headstands into my nineties. But recently I’ve been having second thoughts about the fossil fuels used to fly these often tropical tastes to my doorstep. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Superfoods a Super Waste?