Bangladesh, India Ranked Most At Risk From Climate Change – Rich Nations’ Risk Under-Estimated?
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Farmland near Mysore during the dry season, photo: Nikhil Verma / Creative Commons Some new risk analysis from Maplecroft ranks Bangladesh, India, Madagascar as the top three most at-risk nations for climate change. Nepal, Mozambique, the Philippines, Haiti, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Burma–as in, the usual suspects–round out the top ten. At the other end of the scale Norway, Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Swede… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Chile Tackles Water Footprint Strategy, Sets New Standards for Measurements
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Entrance to Zeta Rapid on Chile’s Futaleufu River. Photo via nwrafting Measuring our water footprint is the first step toward reaching efficiency. More businesses and communities are getting serious about these measurements, putting them on par with carbon and energy accounting . But Chile is getting extra detailed about its footprint, breaking it down into green blue and grey, to ensure a complete understanding of how water is sourced and cycled through the syste… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Tony the Misfit / Creative Commons Inscribed on Thomas Jefferson’s tombstone at Monticello are the words: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.” Renowned architect and designer Bill McDonough often remarks about the power of this inscription. There is no mention, says Bill, of being the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …"Clean, Green" TATA Tower is a Bleak Vision of the Future, Dominated by Cars
October 21, 2010 No Comment
I have seen the future over at Inhabitat and it scares the shit out of me. It’s the proposed TATA tower in Mumbai , a solar and wind powered algae farm that happens to be offices, 930 apartments and parking for 4500 alternate-fuelled little nanos that move up and down the outside of buildings that look like the people farm in the Matrix. It is a future where we never g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …How To Offset Half of All Airline Carbon Emissions With Human Urine (Video)
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Our de facto senior humanure correspondent, Sami Grover, has written a number of times on how we’ve both created a huge mess by mixing our excrement with water in sewage systems and Ihow we’re flushing down the toilet an amazingly … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Sir Adavis The Electronics TakeBack Coalition has released a new report card grading electronics manufacturers that produce TVs, computers, gaming consoles and printers on their sustainability efforts around recycling. Somewhat similar to Greenpeace’s rankings , the report card shows where manufacturers are succeeding at walking the talk about minimizing the environmental impact of their products — but more often it shows where they’re… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Poptech Yesterday, I traveled up to the ordinarily sleepy, but beautiful town of Camden, Maine to attend one of the most consistently exciting conferences of the year. Poptech brings together technology innovators, scientists, thought leaders, writers, and designers for a three-day event that focuses on the intersection of technology, culture, and sustainability. It’s an event that’s all about big ideas. This year, the theme is ‘ Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs ‘ — suiting, to a year that has seen plenty of each (though … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gavia under the ice at Pavillion Lake. Credit: Donnie Reid , via Discovery News Gavia is the newest all-star at the University of British Columbia. Nope, not a genius student or doctor doing ground-breaking research — Gavia is a robot. It’s an autonomous underwater vehicle that is helping to shape our understanding of sea ice in the Antarctic, including how it is faring against global climate change. For researchers, getting information about life around and conditions of the frigid waters, but this high-tech robot is helping break… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images credit Baita Design At the Baita Design Studio in Rio De Janeiro, they write about the Safo Sofa: Every time I sit on my couch I wonder why they cannot be more than just seating places… Once they take up so much room, why not take advantage of the large idle space inside them? That’s TreeHugger Transformer thi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Flickr via Find Your Feet Luca Alinovi, officer in charge of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Somalia, has come out saying that investing in agriculture in Somalia, which for years has suffered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, is more effective and more sustainable than simply sending food aid. In a world where the effectiveness, let alone the concept, of food
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