image: Wikipedia It’s likely not long before Arctic ice melt reaches levels where trans-Arctic shipment of goods is no longer headline-making, but commonplace. With that comes more black carbon air pollution from ships–soot to you and me–and, that means already disproportionately high levels of warmi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Continue reading here: Today on Planet 100: Where are all the Bleeping Jobs? (Video)
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Photo: Big Cat Rescue …And how one of the world’s leading conservationists says we can fix it Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is a wildlife conservationist rock star — insofar as there is such a thing as a conservationist rock star, that is. No further evidence is needed then his talk at Poptech 2010 , where he brought down the house and roused a standing ovation with the story of his lifel… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Vacuum Cleaners Made from Ocean Plastic Highlight Ugly Pollution, Beautiful Design
October 26, 2010 No Comment
Photos via Electrolux This summer we let you know about a really cool project from Electrolux, a company that wanted to make a series of their well-known vacuum cleaners out of plastic collected from the ocean. Well, they’ve done it — and the vacuums turned out way cooler than we’d have imagined. The company just announced five unique vacuum cleaners each made from plastics collected from a different sea. Check them out, and a video on the process of collect… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …World’s Biggest Solar Power Plant? US & South Africa Race For First 1 GW Project
October 26, 2010 No Comment
photo: Naimi Grondin / Creative Commons No matter who wins the bragging rights, it’s all pretty great news: In the United States, the Department of the Interior just gave approval to a 1 GW solar power on public lands in southern California; and, in South Africa plans for 5 GW solar power plant, large enough to supply 10% of the nation’s current electricity demand, was announced. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Can Green Walls Beside Highways Actually Reduce Temperature and Pollution?
October 26, 2010 No Comment
A new project to turn a highway structure into a living wall in Buenos Aires. Photos: Paula Alvarado. The Buenos Aires government is doing a six month tryout of how green walls perform in the city’s highways as noise, temperature and pollution mitigators. Installed inside horizontal tubes filled with water and nutrients, the first seedlings were planted in the exit of a route that connects the southern part of the city with the suburbs. But, do green walls next to motorways do any good at all?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The EPA writes about its Working off the Waste with EnergyStar Competition : From March Madness and Monday Night Football to American Idol and Survivor – we love a good game. This facet of American culture added the final dimension to EPA’s strategy–a head to head competition. Put a diverse group of buildings on a diet, add a dash of spirited rivalry and a little national media attention, and you’ve got an idea that could help raise awareness and spur greater energy efficiency in the buildings where Americans work, play, and learn.
Continue reading …New TV from Philips Earns Points on Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Ranking
October 26, 2010 No Comment
Image via Greenpeace The latest Greenpeace greener electronic ranking has just come out. The ranking shows which companies are holding their own on the green front, and which have slipped behind on sustainability initiatives. In the lastest version, Philips makes a surprising leap forward to rank up there with HP thanks to a new TV that cuts out PVC and BFRs, while Toshiba and Microsoft fall behind, increasing the chasm between companie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: zidane_0120 / Creative Commons With only an estimated 1,590 giant pandas alive in the wild—and fewer than 300 in captivity—some conservationists have predicted that the species could be extinct within two or three generations . One hope, of course, is captive breeding but the notoriously fickle pandas have made such programs unreliable. But now, a baby boom is giving conservationists a new hope … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Flickr via hellochris Why New Yorkers continue to drink bottled water is a mystery. Its quality has been praised all over the place, but that praise has just reached new heights: restaurants in Florida dueling over technology to replicate it. The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. in Delray Beach has accused Mamma Mia’s Trattoria & Brick Oven Pizzeria in Lake Worth of stealing technology it developed to “Brooklynize” its water, the
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