Image credit: TheTruthAbout , used under Creative Commons license. When we talk about protecting precious resources, it can be tempting to focus almost exclusively on the physical—whether that be diminishing oil reserves or clean water. But sometimes we need to take a step back and look at some more abstract resources. Just as getting a handle on personal finances and money can be an act of environmentalism , ma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Interactive Country Comparisons on Electricity, Oil, and More Is An Eye Opener
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Image via If It Were My Home Last year during the oil spill, If It Were My Home showed us what the oil spill would look like if it were covering where we live. Superimposing the area of the oil spill over my home in San Francisco was a real eye opener for exactly how big it was. Sometimes changing the context of information is what’s needed to get the point across. If It Were My Home is at it again with more information, comparing the UK to other countries across the world, and displaying what you’d be like if you lived there in… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Circle of Blue Coal tar is an awful thing to deal with. It is a relic by-product from the early 20th century process of carbonizing coal to made coke or gasifying it to make coal gas. The resulting coal tar can have a wide range of substances mixed into it, and while it has many uses from skin treatments to food dyes, it is definitely considered a pollutant in the Hudson River. However, a project in New York’s Hudson Ri… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo by mikebaird via Flickr Creative Commons Peter Tyack is dedicated to studying how sound impacts marine mammals. As we know, whales and dolphins rely on vocalization to find food and one another. Many species are able to hear each other over vast distances, locating one another to breed and migrate to feeding grounds. Their sensitivity to sound means that the human activity in the ocean — from the
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Photo courtesy Marty Odlin from a trip to Ghana in 2009. There’s no question that TreeHugger loves bamboo bikes. We’ve shown readers bamboo bikes of every stripe – high performance bamboo bikes , high statement bamboo bikes , and even DIY bamboo bikes. And though we explained why bamboo bikes are
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Photo: B. Alter Train travel can be such a delight, when it works. Take the London subway to the station, hop on the train, and two hours later you are in the centre of Brussels. What could be more environmental and it feels so virtuous. The Eurostar train terminal in Brussels is celebrating its green-ness with a big piece of art work made of recycled coke cans, plastic water bottles, crumpled paper and some paper plates. Each symbolizes an aspect of the company’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Megadeth photo: Marta Xochilt Perez / Wolf photo: FurLined Despite being an endangered species, wolves in Norway face serious threats from gun-totting farmers looking to protect their livestock by way of a bullet — but it turns out that another kind of heavy metal may be just as effective at keeping the animals away. Rec… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: US Clean Air Task Force (pdf file) There’s a 2-page article in the New York Times Home & Garden section in which it is explained that wood burning has recently become a guilt factor for city dwellers. I’d have to agree: burning of wood or coal in big city fireplace is a silly affect, no more justifiable than the wearing of Lynx fur collars, than blood jewels worn over exposed bosoms, or frequent vacations to exotic locations to get … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The socks, the scarf, the denim shirt, the coat, the flannels….there’s a lot to love in this mix.
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