Shedworking Alex at Shedworking reminds us of the Clipper CS1, a sort of office shed for CAD workers of the early nineties. The normal office environment didn’t work very well for CAD monitors… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Who Needs an Indoor Office Shed?
Image credit: Beverly & Pack /Flickr Since the ban on DDT —an egg-shell thinning endocrine disruptor and pesticide—in 1972, the iconic bald eagle has battled it’s way back from the brink of extinction. Now, conservationists have their sites set on difficult habitats, like
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Bald Eagle Diet Complicates Conservation Efforts
Image credit: uscglantareapa /Flickr The explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform on April 20 and the whole thing sank on April 22. Since then, how much oil has leaked into the ocean?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Much Oil Has Leaked Out of Deepwater Horizon?
Photo: Flickr, CC & Google 169.5 Megawatts of Combined Capacity Google has stopped being only about internet services such as search and email a while ago, but so far, most of its investments in renewable energy were directed at R&D and startups, not at more mature clean energy sources. This is changing: the search giant has decided to invest its pocket change into two wind farms located in North Dakota…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Good Move! Google Invests $38.8 Million in Two North Dakota Wind Farms
Image credit: Marc Veraart /Flickr Elephants are big, beautiful, animals, but a herd of marauding elephants can also be a serious nuisance. The big feet of a dozen elephants can crush crops, topple houses, and even pose a serious risk people that get in the way. When a group of elephants were pushed out of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon, they caused a panic in nearby villages—and kicked up a debate about how to deal with such incidents…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Panic Ensues in Cameroon After Elephants Flee Reserve
Last year Brian did a great slideshow of some of our environmental heroes. He wrote “This is by no means a comprehensive list, but here are some of the great men and women who’ve defined modern environmentalism–these green heroes deserve a huge Earth Day salute.” Troll alert: it includes Al Gore and Rachel Carson. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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An Earth Day Tribute to 11 Environmental Heroes
Image credit: .martin /Flickr As part of their “I Have a Green Job” series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson , a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that’s dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How to Mind Your Own Bees Wax
About 84 percent of Missouri’s energy comes from coal, the “most dangerous substance” known to man, according to Bill McKibben. The state’s heavy reliance on coal makes it an interesting venue for next week’s live streamed debate between Fred Palmer, VP of Governmental Relations at Peabody Energy and Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, moderated by Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Coal Fight Night: Sierra Club Vs. Peabody Next Week in St. Louis
Image credit: Good What if, instead of building suburban communities around golf courses, developers created large farms to serve as the center of a neighborhood-maintained agricultural system? Would people be willing to replace the tranquility of a manicured green with the buzzing of a busy field? Could home-grown apples replace sliced golf balls?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Agriculture is the New Golf?
Photo: Trash in the Himalayas ( Columbus Magazine ) An expedition of twenty Nepali climbers will head out this week to clean what’s known as the world’s highest garbage dump. Located above 8,000 meters (26,246 feet) in the “death zone” of Mount Everest, it’s named for its notoriously oxygen-poor air, freezing temperatures and dangerous terrain. Since the first successful ascent of the world’s tallest summit by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, Everest has become a proverbial dump, carrying an estimated 50 tons of trash gen… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Everest Expedition To Clean World’s Highest Garbage Dump