Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: people will always need plates Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design. For anyone looking for a great gift for a design-freak friend, or just a good piece for the apartment; this is the place for the next few days. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Bolivia To Take Dispute Over Climate Negotiations To International Court
December 16, 2010 No Comment
photo via the telegraph In the early hours before an agreement was made in Cancun toward a global dea l to combat climate change, one country, Bolivia, repeatedly stood up to voice its opposition to the process. The COP’s president, Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, gaveled down Bolivia and a deal was ultimately approved. Now … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Solar Reserve The most common complaint lodged against solar power is that — say it with me now — it’s only able to provide power when it’s light outside. Solar developers have tried to solve this problem a number of ways, and using molten salt to store the heat is one of the most promising… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo Credit: vaxomatic / creative commons It’s in vogue these days, infrastructure that is. Everyone is talking about it. Pronounced in-fruh-struhk-cher , it’s phonetically brilliant. But do you know what it really means? With regard to sustainability, infrastructure is at the core of society’s attempt and struggle to live in harmony with nature. When you talk about energy, you are actually talking abo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Planned West Coast Port Expansions Would Enable Asia To Import More US Coal
December 16, 2010 No Comment
Coal train. Image credit: Wikipedia US coal production is at a tipping point, leaning toward more exports to Asia. It’s just as easy to load the train with the kind of coal used to make steel or activated carbon as with the sort used to generate electricity – and Chinese demand is on the increase for both. Counting on US coal port facility development, the USA is poised to satisfy that growing demand in parallel with an ant… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Fisker Partners With China Grand Automotive Group for Distribution in China
December 16, 2010 No Comment
Photo: Fisker Fisker Going East Fisker Automotive, the California-based maker of the Karma and Karma S series plug-in hybrids (aka electric cars with a range extender like the Chevy Volt ), has inked a deal with China Grand Automotive Group to have its vehicles distributed, marketed and serviced in the Middle Kingdom…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: mroach , Flickr, CC Yesterday, Matt reported on the rather unsurprising (yet still interesting to view in the light of day) news that Fox ‘journalists’ had been given direct instructions to essentially never report on climate change without offering skeptical talking points as well. Predictably, the green and liberal blogosphere, which loves to hate Fox, went abuzz. The most interesting point to be raised, in my opinion, was just how different… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Tar Sands Not Most Destructive Project on Earth, But Very Far From Benign: Royal Society of Canada
December 16, 2010 No Comment
image: RSC TreeHugger has filled a great many virtual pages on the topic of Alberta tar sands , detailing time and time again the high environmental costs of extracting this so-called unconventional source of oil , which the Albertan government has bet much of its future on. Now the more august and staid body of the Royal Socie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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