World Growth International Slammed by Scientists For Being Front Group For Big Timber
October 28, 2010 No Comment
This one’s probably a bit insider-info for most TreeHugger readers, and I admit I’m partially to blame for it, but bear with me because it’s if you care about rampant greenwashing and deforestation it’s important: A group of prominent scientists has issued an open letter challenging the objectivity of World Growth International , challenging the group’s and its leader Alan Oxley ‘s, objectivity in addressing the environmental and social impact of
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credit: Lloyd Alter I wonder what they will be saying in the Vinyl For Life booth next month at Greenbuild in Chicago; last year they were there in force, explaining how benign it was. But now the USGBC , which runs LEED (and Greenbuild) has listed phthalates, a key ingredient in the making of most vinyl used it buildings, in a pilot credit for Chemical Avoidance In Building Materials This means that getting vinyl out of buildings may contribute … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kevin Burkett Flickr, Creative Commons It’s one thing to foolishly claim that you don’t believe that humans are causing the planet to warm — there are plenty of ideologically and politically motivated reasons that can move folks (especially Republican politicians ) to deny man-caused climate change. It’s dumb, but I get it: You don’t like the regulatory implications that the solutions imply, so you deny the root cause. Fi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Pennsylvania Township Bans Fracking Wastewater Disposal – Defies State Government
October 28, 2010 No Comment
If you only thought fracking was an expletive on Battlestar Galactica, watch this trailer for the documentary Gasland for a bit more info Defying the state of Pennsy… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From Stockholm, Sweden, to Zaragoza, Spain, bike sharing can be found in 100 European cities. Photo courtesy The Bike Sharing Blog . First was the news that the London bike share program (conspicuously sponsored by Barclay’s Bank) expects to break even and turn a profit in the next few years. Now Spiegel magazine reports that a new record has been reached, with 100 European cities su… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Public Health Copenhagen “You won’t believe it… You’re safer on the bicycle than on the sofa!” That’s the official slogan of a Copenhagen campaign—run not by the department of transportation or bike safety advocates, but by the city’s public health office. The picture above was a poster seen across the city last spring bearing the message: “You are safer on the bike than on the couch… Pu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Weather Underground The strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest swept through Minnesota, bringing fierce winds and torrential downpours along with it. It turns out the ‘superstorm’ caused the lowest pressure ever recorded in a U.S. non-coastal storm–955 millibars. The storm was stronger than the Great Ohio Storm of 1978, the previous record-holder, and stronger even than the storm that famously sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1974. That’s according to
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Goats for rent photo credit Goat Rental NW . Smack dab in the middle of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the corner of SE 11th Avenue and Belmont, there’s a small herd of goats that are doing what they do naturally – eating grass and weeds. The goat herd has attracted lots of attention from neighbors, however, and their grass eating, says the local Portland weekly Willamette Week , is brilliant in “any number of ways.” They are emissions-free mowers that give relief from the gas-powered tractor, and have a specialty in chomping up pernicious and invasive b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve got a garden full of kale , and I’m running out of time to use it all up. Kale is quite happy to be hit with a bit of frost, and many people say it actually makes it sweeter, but even this hearty vegetable can only take so much cold. So it looks like kale will be on the menu quite a bit over the next couple of weeks. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Credit: John Amend, Cornell University It is tough picking things up; one has to coordinate fingers and get feedback. It is harder still to make a robotic hand that can master the complexities. We have a tendency build these things in our own image, what Fast Company calls “Terminator Style.” Heinrich Jaeger throws that out the window, and has built a hand that can pick up … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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