Photo Credit: Hydrogen Community Lolland In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland , located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem – they produced 50 percent more electricity from wind power than … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Marcellus Protest / Creative Commons The past month saw several significant developments on the natural gas reform front. From Texas to New York, to Arkansas, new studies have revealed how damaging fracking really is, sparking some governments to take steps to protect their citizens from contaminated drinking water and other threats…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images credit Michael Chrisman/Torontoist For a number of weeks the walls, hoardings, abandoned windows and parking receipt machines of Toronto have been covered with enigmatic posters of a young man, labelled “Andrew.” It turns out they are a kind of transatlantic memorial to a dead bicyclist, Andrew Mackenzie Hull , architect and film-maker, killed in London in a bicycle ac… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: linh.m.do / Creative Commons This guest post was written by David Waskow, Climate Change Program Director at Oxfam America. I’ve recently returned from the UN Climate Conference in Cancun and I’m still holding on to some of the good, warm feelings. No, it wasn’t the beautiful sandy beaches (didn’t see much of those) or the tasty margaritas (ok I had a few). It was the world coming together in a busy conf… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jeff Rubin quit his job as Chief Economist at a big bank to write Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller . Tyler Hamilton does a terrific interview of him in the Toronto Star, in which Rubin unleashes his usual memorable zingers. Hamilton asks him about where oil prices are going: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Bush Admin Officials Advised Retaliation Against Europe For Rejecting GM Crops: Wikileaks
December 23, 2010 No Comment
photo: Grüne Baden-Württemberg / Creative Commons More from Wikileaks of interest to the environmentally-minded, shedding light on the mindset of the Bush administration on the European Union’s actions on genetically modified crops: US Ambassador to France recommended the US “calibrate a target list that causes some pain across the EU” because both
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image credit: Edmund Sumner “We made friends with the conservation and planning people. We needed them on our side. There are people who say the towers shouldn’t become homes because this takes away from their historic role. But if they aren’t going to be lived in, what’s to happen to them? Those that hadn’t been blasted away during target practice by the military have often been left to rot, and then demolished.” image credit: Edmund Sumner G… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Pretty Crazy Small, Hammock-Shaped Home With Recycled Materials In Paraguay
December 23, 2010 No Comment
Photos: Andrea Parisi. If you’ve been to any part of South America you’re probably familiar with the Paraguayan hammock , a sort of knitted textile bed hanging from two poles very typical of areas with hot weather. Inspired by this item Paraguayans are pretty proud of, architect Javier Corvalan of +Laboratorio de Arquitectura came up with this amazing looking home that not only looks, but also works as a hammock in its structure. Apart fro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Grand opening of San Francisco’s EcoCenter, one of this year’s EJ award winners Image: via EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park The EPA’s environmental justice working group was only revived this year , but the agency has been giving out awards for leaders in the area for a few years. This year’s winners represent different regions and are focusing on different problems, but all unified in the struggle for
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Photo: U.S. Coast Guard We wish we could say the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the only horrific environmental disaster this year. From red toxic sludge spewing through Hungary to floods in Pakistan and heatwaves in Russia, 2010 was a year of record-setting natural disasters — all of which were exacerbated by climate change. As part of our Year in Review Series, here’s a sobering look back at the year’s worst environmental catastrophes. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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