photo: stephane333 / Creative Commons Until recently the International Energy Agency never really publicly acknowledged peak oil , and still rarely uses the term itself even though over the past year the topic has been acknowledged to be (gasp) very real and likely very soon. But in this year’s
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Credit: Fox Searchlight When Aron Ralston set out for a climb through the Utah’s Blue John Canyon on April 26, 2003, he didn’t tell anyone where he was going. And when an 800-pound boulder slipped while he was climbing and pinned his right hand between the rock and two narrow walls, he knew he was going to die there, alone…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Brian Merchant You probably haven’t heard much about Volkswagen’s forays into the electric car realm — frankly, until recently , there hasn’t been much to talk about. But that’s finally changing, as the world’s second largest carmaker just unveiled its Golf Blue E-motion electric car. Slated for a 2014 release, the e-motion will essentially be an electrified version of the popular Golf (“the most successful car Europe has ever seen”). VW invited TreeHugger out to its HQ in Wolfsburg, Germany to take an early model of the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: derekp , used under Creative Commons license. From asking what Reagan would do , through discussing a green Republican movement , to looking at Margaret Thatcher’s mixed record on climate change , TreeHugger has devoted plenty of column … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit The Modules Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house . They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate the virtues of modular construction…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects was our Best of Green Architect in 2009 for his “low tech and low impact” work “using natural ventilation and basic technologies to produce tough and edgy designs.” This new office addition to a factory in Anacortes, WA appears to do exactly that. It certainly is edgy…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Genaro Alva. With the goal of recovering the historical center of Peru’s capital city, a group of organizations put together an event called Gran Semana de Lima or Lima’s Great Week, which aimed to create new life in the streets. Among other activities, there was a contest for urban interventions and one of the winners was this amazing project called Green Invasion by architects Genaro Alva, Denise Ampuero, Gloria Andrea Rojas and industrial designer Claudia Ampuero…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Glastonbury Festivals From wind- and solar-powered phone charging stations , to providing a platform for Greenpeace and Joss Stone to call out climate criminals , Glastonbury Festival in the UK has always had a dark green tint to it. Now festival founder Michael Eavis has taken his ecological commitments a step further—launching the UK’s largest private solar po… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: AP/Department of Justice Smuggling endangered animals across the globe inspires criminals to take drastic — and almost laughable — measures, from hiding monkeys under their hats to securing lizards in their underwear. But there’s nothing funny about animal trafficking: It’s a worldwide problem that threatens endangered species and puts a price, literally, on biodiversity.
Continue reading …Radical Transparency – InterfaceFLOR Commit to Environmental Product Declarations on all Products by 2012
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This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest , founder of InterfaceFLOR Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company’s journey up “Mount Sustainability”. They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero environmental impact by 2020. Anderson says they are already 60% there with 10 years to go. InterfaceFLOR has been the absolute pioneer of corporate and industrial sustainability over the past 16 years, with consistently radical
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