Posted by in Environment on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet
Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet
images via Designboom That is what French designer Josselin Zaïgouche says about his novel, if unusual, way to reduce power consumption…. Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet
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Posted by in Environment on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Hit Or Miss? The Light Tree Combines Solar Street Lighting and Planters
Hit Or Miss? The Light Tree Combines Solar Street Lighting and Planters
Image via Yanko Design This seems like a slightly more Alice In Wonderland, slightly less majestic version of Ross Lovegrove’s solar tree-like streetlights , but designer Omar Ivan Huerta Cardoso is giving fake-tree-solar-streetlighting a go with the Light Tree. This one, however, has a few real...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Uncontacted Amazon Tribes Get Internet Connection
Uncontacted Amazon Tribes Get Internet Connection
Photo via SIPAM For the first time, indigenous Amazonian tribesmen , long isolated by their location deep within the rainforest , will have access to the internet and telephone. The system, which includes a VSAT satellite dish , was installed by the Read the original post:  Uncontacted Amazon Tribes...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
New Chip Can Boost Image Quality of Cheaper Televisions
New Chip Can Boost Image Quality of Cheaper Televisions
Image via Tech-On It’s always a good thing when a new technology can simply be inserted into an old technology in order to improve quality; it means no need to create new manufacturing facilities, no need to worry about new recycling issues, no need to worry about new packaging and on and on....
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Posted by in Environment on 02 27th, 2010 | No Comments
PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010
PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010
Image credit: PETA Much like Blythe’s excellent slideshow on PETA porn , I’m never quite sure what to make of PETA . On the one hand, the constant focus on Originally posted here: PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010
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Posted by in Environment on 02 26th, 2010 | No Comments
If the Winter Glove Won’t Fit…
If the Winter Glove Won’t Fit…
Image credit: Grist “The attack on climate science,” Bill McKibben says in the title of a recent essay , “is the O.J. moment of the 21st century.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post:  If the Winter Glove Won’t Fit…
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Posted by in Environment on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments
Say Goodbye to Bluefin?
Say Goodbye to Bluefin?
Image credit: Good After years of voracious demand, the population of bluefin tuna has been decimated . A ban has been proposed but support has not been unanimous …. Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Say Goodbye to Bluefin?
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Posted by in Environment on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments
Vermont Shutters Only Nuclear Plant Due to Radioactive Waste Leakage
Vermont Shutters Only Nuclear Plant Due to Radioactive Waste Leakage
Photo via NRC Just a week ago, Obama announced that the first nuclear reactor to be built in the US in over 30 years was receiving an $8 billion loan guarantee. Today, Vermont has voted to shut down its only nuclear plant because of revelations that it was leaking radioactive tritium into the ground,...
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Posted by in Eco, Environment on 02 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
Maximizing Your Vehicle’s Efficiency
Maximizing Your Vehicle’s Efficiency
Image credit: Good The average car, Good writes , uses just 15 percent of the energy it produces from gasoline. Making cars more efficient, then, is an obvious way to reduce fuel consumption as we wait for electric vehicles to become ubiquitous …. Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest...
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Posted by in Environment on 02 21st, 2010 | No Comments
THINK & Aerovironment: 80% EV Charge in 15 Minutes
THINK & Aerovironment: 80% EV Charge in 15 Minutes
Image credit: ElectricAid Having teetered on the verge of bankruptcy , only to be rescued by a massive financial boost , the Think City Electric Car recently restarted production in Finland. And it’s also been making… Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: THINK...
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