Source: City of Providence, Rhode Island The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the Providence River. The bridge will create a new connection for pedestrians and bicyclists from the Fox Point and College Hill neighborhoods to Downtown and link two new wate… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kim Hansen , Wikimedia, CC As it stands, it typically takes a staggering 7 years — at the very least — for an offshore wind project to receive federal approval to begin construction. And as we’ve seen with the infamous Cape Wind project , there’s plenty of red tape on the local and state levels as well. So its no surprise that the the US is seriously lagging in the offshore wind power sector. But the Dept. of the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Plymouth Massachusetts Thankful As Coalition Restores River Used by Pilgrims
November 23, 2010 No Comment
Town Brook, at the Plymco dam site in Plymouth MA, USA. Image credit:all photos in this post are by Brian Graber of American Rivers, and used with permission. Odds are that you’ve heard the story of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims coming to Plymouth, Massachusetts . Maybe you’ll even tell it a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A search conducted by arachnid enthusiasts led to the rediscovery of Clubiona rosserae . Photo credit: woodleywonderworks / Creative Commons Originally discovered in the 1950s, the Rosser’s sac spider was elusive—evading even a photograph—until 10 years ago when sightings stopped completely. With its wetland habitat shrinking, researchers and enthusiasts feared that the spider may have gone extinct . Now, a new sighting of the spide… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Indonesia Using $1 Billion in Forest Protection Funds to Cut Down Forests?
November 23, 2010 No Comment
Peat forest leveled for palm oil in Riau, Indonesia. Photo: Wakx , Flickr, CC It was a trailblazing ‘showcase’ deal in global climate negotiations: Norway agreed to send $1 billion to Indonesia (most of it coming from Norway) if the nation would put a moratorium on logging its natural forests and peat lands, and replant degraded areas. The deal would reduce carbon emissions by millions of tons, and prevent widespread habitat loss. Indonesia accepted, and t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via D’Arcy Norman , Flickr We all get our share of e-mail spam. One that keeps showing up in my InBox offers the opportunity of a lifetime: Buy an Arizona landfill. Fill it up. The more waste you bury, the more money you make. For the Un-TreeHugger who has everything? And just in time for the holidays! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mention social good to generation Y — or other generations for that matter — and the focus easily turns to high tech innovation. It’s an angle emphasized by big events like TED, which emit a steady feed of technology-heavy ideas. Take the recent Rolex Young Laureates Program , the watch company’s newly-inaugurated register of some of the most promising projects making a difference in the world. High tech was in full attendance at the ceremony, thanks largely to the venue: the EPFL
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Image: U.S. EPA These Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story, Though… Nissan has announced that it has got the final LEAF electric car ratings from the EPA. As you can see on the sticker above, the LEAF is rated at 106 MPG-equivalent in the city and 92 MPG-equivalent on the highway, for a combined rating of 99 MPG-equivalent (more below on what “MPG-equivalent” actually means in this case). The electric driving range of the car as measured by the EPA is 73 miles, almost 30% lower than Nissan’s own estimate of 100 miles. In real-world driving, the LEAF’s range should vary quite a bit depending on … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant. Photo: Tedder , Wikimedia, CC There’s currently only one lonely coal-fired power plant in all of Oregon. But by 2020, there will be none — Portland General Electric Co., which operates the plant, has announced that it will either shutter the 585 megawatt Boardman plant or convert it to burn biomass. In less than 10 years, the state of Oregon will be coal-free…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Lloyd Alter A few years ago everyone was talking about vampire power; since then it has fallen off the table as people realized that really, there are bigger issues. So why would anyone shell out forty bucks each for the Modlet, a smart outlet that turns off power to your appliances and equipment? Because there is a lot more to it than just phantom loads. It is about knowing where your power is going…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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