Mitsubishi Getting Serious About Electrification, Will Launch 8 New Models in Next 5 Years
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Image: MMC Transitioning Away from the Internal Combustion Engine Mitsubishi, the maker of the lovely electric Jellybean (aka the i-MiEV electric car ), has plans to introduce 8 hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by 2015. They anticipate increased demand for “low-carbon” cars and want to position themselves as a major source of those. (Whether they will succeed is another question entirely, but they should at least get some points for trying to move away from th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons After his most recent trip to the Sudan in an effort to draw attention to the war-torn nation, George Clooney came home with an unpleasant souvenir: malaria …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise by 2100 Certain With Business As Usual Emissions: James Hansen
January 21, 2011 No Comment
photo: Julie G / Creative Commons James Hansen may be as much as a celebrity as one can be in the world of climate change science, so when he and colleague Makiko Sato say that we’re in for multi-meter sea level rise by 2100 you have to … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Paques Unilever is taking a Ben & Jerry’s factory in the Netherlands a green step forward: constructing a bio-digester that will convert the waste products from ice cream production and provide for 40 percent of the factory’s green energy requirements. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo Credit: Alexa Sky. There are plenty of good reasons to avoid Monsanto: Roundup , genetically-engineered beets, corn, and other crops , the fact that they sue farmers after their seeds (a monopoly of their own) contaminate the farmers’ own fields , Agent Orange….we could go on and on. What some people may not realize… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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+ Karen Ingham’s “Pollinator Frocks” are treated with a nectar-like sugar solution that attracts and nourishes bees and other endangered pollinators. + Also inspired by Colony Collapse Disorder, Ada Zanditon’s “Colony” collection translates the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb into high style. + This dress’s iridescent hue is purely a trick of the light. It’s made from
Continue reading …Programs That US House of Representatives, Republican Study Group Would Cut
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Ryan Grim lists at HuffPost a pile of government budget items that “Leading conservative House Republicans” want to cut back or eliminate. Ryan’s post explains the RSG context in detail (at HuffPost link). It was easy for me to pare the full RSG list down to those with apparent environmental relevance (either plus or minus, direct or indirect). What follows is based on that greatly shortened list, with items grouped into what I think are logical categories for possible environmental pros and cons. Group or “category” cut… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Sioux City Journal Yet another one of the incidents in the much-publicized global mass animal death story — which nobody really cared about , anyways — has been stripped of its mystery. The hundreds of dead birds that were discovered in South Da… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: kevindooley / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Alexandra Giese, staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute. Topping off the warmest decade in history , 2010 experienced a global average temperature of 14.63 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit), tying 2005 as the hottest year in 131 years of record keeping…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Tabitha Kaylee Hawk / Creative Commons Nine months after the Gulf oil spill and the effects of exposure in Gulf residents is starting to show up in people’s blood. The Institute for Southern Studies reports that the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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