Photo: Bjoertvedt , Wikimedia Commons, CC Ah, the fallout from the 2010 midterm elections — it just keeps on getting more depressing, at least from a climate and clean energy perspective . Yes, the folks over at Think Progress did some background research on the incoming Congressmen, and they reveal a disheartening stat: 50% of them outright deny that climate change is real. Nice. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A BMW concept car shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. Photo: Michael Graham Richard E-Autobahn The German luxury car maker BMW announced today that it will invest 400 million euros (about 560 million dollars) by 2013 to develop and produce an electric model. The teutonic company already has some experience with EVs, but it’s mostly conversions of existing models like the Mini E or concept cars for Auto Show (like the one above). No electric cars designed from the ground up to run on electrons … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Broadacre City. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950-1955. [Image via urbannebula.nl.] The politics and planning of our food system is a big topic these days, with urban farming being all the rage. In Design Observer, Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landcape Architecture at Harvard, looks back at earlier approaches to merging agriculture and urbanity, at the way that urban farming might affect urban form. Frank Lloyd Wright was convinced that the automobile would cause the city to decentralize, and envisioned Broadacre City, a mix of urbanity a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Colorado Coal Mine Refuses to Capture Methane – Releases Directly into Atmosphere Instead, Depriving Government of $250M
November 5, 2010 No Comment
Image: Flickr via Steven Damron For all their environmental woes, most coal mines in the U.S. at least capture the methane released when the coal is mined. It can then be used for fuel, which in terms of greenhouse gas emissions is tons (ha) better than simply releasing it freely into the atmosphere. However, 12 mines do not capture methane, according to the EPA, including one that is currently expanding and might get away with continuing t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Permaculture TV Back in 2006 the Dervaes’ family’s Path to Freedom urban homestead project hit the airwaves of TreeHugger TV. Since then we’ve seen a proliferation of urban farm tours , awesome small-scale permaculture projects ,
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photo: Thomas Tringale / Creative Commons If you thought the obesity epidemic in the United States couldn’t get much worse, new research from Harvard University projects that the national obesity rate won’t plateau until at least 42% of adults are obese, something which may not happen for another fou… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I harvested the last of my beets this week and just roasted them simply in some olive oil with a bit of salt and pepper and they were wonderful. But I also got a huge amount of pleasure out of cooking the greens , which too many people just toss out without realizing how delicious they are. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …More Stories From the Gulf Oil Spill: Shrimp Fisherman One of the Forgotten Victims (Video)
November 5, 2010 No Comment
A couple weeks ago we shared a couple of the touching and sobering videos that NRDC , StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf have been producing, reminding us that even though t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: davidsilver , Flickr, Creative Commons On election day , Republican strategist Karl Rove may have let more truth slip than he’s typically comfortable with. At a conference for shale gas drilling companies, he gave a speech about how the incoming Congress “sure as heck” won’t pass legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate is gone,” he said. It very well may be, Mr. Rove, if you get your way. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Netherlands Will Only Use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil by 2015 – First National-Level Commitment
November 5, 2010 No Comment
Oil palm fruit, photo: fitri agung / Creative Commons In a big boost for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification standard, the Netherlands has committed to only using sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015–and becomes the first nation to do so. Dutch businesses are Europe’s largest imp… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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