Is Asking When Solar Power Will Reach Grid Parity Addressing the Right Question?
November 8, 2010 No Comment
photo: Rodrigo Suriani / Creative Commons If you want a decent overview of all the issues that go into the pricing of solar power –from technological issues to comparisons with fossil fuels (when will solar power be less expensive than burning fossil fuels?)–a new piece over at
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Image: Screenshot, Climate Denial Crock of the Week One of the prevailing myths about climate change is that it’s a “new” science — merely the latest fad in an ongoing cycle of scientific doom-saying. You’ve almost certainly heard or read someone say something like this: “In the 70s, the scientists were all telling us the globe was cooling — now it’s warming. Well which one is it, durn it?” The implication is that climate science is some kind of a trend, and is apt to change course when those fickle scientists find something els… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bill McKibben speaks with Bryony Schwan at Green Festivals 2010 in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive. Bryony Schwan is the executive director and co-founder of The Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes the new science of biomimicry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Saturday in Madrid was one of those perfect Autumn days….warm in the sun and cool in the shade. Perfect conditions for those impractical combinations that are only practically perfect for a few days a year. A flirty cotton summer dress paired with a lightweight wool coat or an oversized cardigan, why fight it? Give into a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Continue reading …Bill McKibben speaks with Starhawk at Green Festivals 2010 in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan mov… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …USDA Fighting Obesity With One Hand, Promoting High-Fat Cheese With The Other
November 8, 2010 No Comment
Cheese Promotion by Dairy Management All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps companies like Dominos sell more pizza by packing on more cheese. But it is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Ag… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …EU Biofuel Expansion Plans Worse For Environment Than Burning Fossil Fuels, New Report Claims
November 8, 2010 No Comment
photo: trasroid / Creative Commons The old spectre of indirect land-use change and biofuels again rears its head: A new report from the Institute for European Environmental Policy looks at the increase in greenhouse gas emissions that could result from plans to expand biofuel use within the European Union and concludes that not only will a whole bunch more land will have… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images credit Arhitektu Birojs Arhiide So much of design is governed by rules and codes. A Recreational vehicle cannot be more than 8’6″ wide, a park model home cannot be more than 12′; a modular not more than 16′ in many jurisdictions. Each set of rules will have a different set of transport and zoning restrictions. Certainly the skinnier the unit, the easier it is to move. The Esclice Home from Lavian architects Ēriks Grūbe, Toms Kokins Mārtiņš Hermansons measures in at only 2.95 meters or 9′-8″. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Ecotricity , used with permission. From Dale Vince’s announcement that he would build a 100mph electric sports car to the Nemesis, as it became known, recently hitting 134mph in wild safety tests , the development of this battery-powered speed monster has been a fascinating journey—not least because Dale Vince and team provided
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Image credit: nancybeetoo , used under Creative Commons license. From taking my compost with me when I moved house, to composting the waste produced by the move , I am well known for being a little obsessive when it comes to all things compost-related. It is, after all, a truly miraculous process that represents the very heart of what … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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