Photo: Wikipedia , CC Not Adapted to This New Threat For most of their existence as a species, birds haven’t evolved in an environment where something like a power line could be in their flight trajectory. Because of this, they mostly look down while flying to find other birds, nesting areas, and places where they can feed. If there’s a tree or a mountain in front the bird and it is looking down, it’s going to see the trunk or the lower portion of the mountain; with power lines, unless it’s right at the pylon, there’s nothing under the lines to give… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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View original post here: Today on Planet 100: United Nations Agrees on Biodiversity (Video)
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Image Credit: Virgin Three years ago I called Virgin’s LEED certified spaceport a contradiction in terms , noting that Tourists and passengers will drive into the middle of the desert, where Richard Branson and others will literally burn rubber, mixed with nitrous oxide, to fire people into space for seven minutes at $ 200,000 a pop. And guess what? It is designed to be LEED Platinum. To be “both sustainable and sensitive to its surroundings.” What an oxymoronic gesture. Next thing you know we will have LEED certified coal fir… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …"Pay As You Plant" Insurance Helps African Farmers Recover from Climate-Induced Crop Loss
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Image: Flickr via meaduva Micro-insurance might be the latest in a string of technology applications that have brought exciting developments to perhaps one of the most surprising regions, rural Africa. Kilimo Salama, or “safe farming” in Swahili, is a micro-insurance system that allows farmers to be compensated for low crop yield due to poor weathe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: TreeHugger It’s likely that the outdoors enthusiast is the person on your holiday gift list that cares the most about getting eco-friendly presents — after all, you’re helping protect his or her favorite playground: Mother Earth. From must-have gear for weekend adventures to durable campsite cookware and engrossing books for rainy days, these gifts will get your nature-fiend in the right place: outdoors Produced by Mairi Beautyman Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: sahlgoode / Creative Commons When it comes to protecting animals , it seems that a simple rule could be “more is better.” The more species saved, and habitat preserved—this implies—the healthier the resulting ecosystem. New research, however, suggests that the reality might not be so simple; in fact,
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Photo: The U.S. Army , Flickr, Creative Commons BP announced today that it now expects the cost of the Gulf spill to be $7.7 billion more than it initially anticipated, bringing the total expense close to $40 billion. Back in July, when the Macondo well was still spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP set aside $32 billion to cover the cost of the cleanup. But due to a number of factors, that number has substantially ballooned:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hennepin Collection We have written often about the extraordinary waste of food in the world; In America, as much as half of it is lost between the field and the fridge. Health writer Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times picks up on the subject with a discussion of Jonathan Bloom’s new book “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food” … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Makers of Record-Breaking Electric Motorcycles Will Become Suppliers of EV Technologies
November 2, 2010 No Comment
A MissionEVT Motor and Controller. Photo: MissionEVT A Bigger Market Than Super-Motorcycles, For Sure Mission Motors, the makers of the record-breaking Mission One electric motorcycle , are expanding their operations by launching MissionEVT, a division that will design and supply high performance EV powertrains, including energy storage systems, drive systems and software intelligence, to the OEM market…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: TreeHugger This week, we are rolling out 10 holiday gift guides packed with green gifts, and first up is for the giftees who know exactly what’s on TV, in the theaters, or hot on the streets: Pop culture may seem flightly, but few things are more luxurious than losing yourself in a good book, taking the time to appreciate great art, or spending your afternoon lounging in front of an engrossing movie . You also can’t deny the influence that
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