Image: Digg.com screen grab Can You Guess What it Says? This screen grab of the Digg ” Top News ” page (found on competing site Reddit , but it’s not a Photoshop job as far as I can tell) pretty much speaks for itself. The sad part isn’t so much that BP is spending money on PR damage-control – that was expected – but rather that it is featured on Digg mixed-in with the user-submitted content in such a way that it’s easy to mist… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: AP Photo/MTI, Sandor H. Szabo The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the local disaster relief services, it remains about 10 kilometers from the main branch of the river as of this morning. There are reports of “sporadic fish death” there; all the fish in the Marcal River, which was hit first, have been killed (
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Photo: Opbrid Goodbye Diesel Fumes? Opbrid, a company based in Spain, has just unveiled its Bůsbaar charging system for electric buses. It leverages technologies developed by the European rail industry and a special type of Lithium Titanate (nLTO) battery that allows rapid charge capability and a very large number of deep discharge cycles. This system would allow electric buses to have smaller batteries (thus less expensive) that are recharged more often; 5-6 minutes at each end of a bus route would be enough to allow an EV bus to operate all day…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Pete Bethune Says Sea Shepherd Deliberately Sunk Its Own Ship to ‘Garner Sympathy’
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It’s been a couple months since Captain Pete Bethune> (then of Sea Shepherd) was given a suspended sentence by Japanese authorities for boarding the Japanese whaler wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It’s technically not a mosque, and it’s technically not at Ground Zero, but it is technically interesting. Of course TreeHugger is entirely apolitical and is just interested interested in the green technology, a mix of old and new. Architectural Record interviewed architect Michel Abboud of SOMA about the project, who explains that the facade is really a traditional sunscreen made from ultra-modern materials. Abboud describes it to Alex Padala:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Greg du Toit Water is one of the world’s most essential elements — and not just for humans, as this collection of images by photographer Greg du Toit proves. He spent months hiding by the lakes, rivers, and water holes of Africa to capture close-ups of wildlife quenching their thirst with the country’s water supply — and the stunning images are an important reminder that we’re not the only ones who rely on H20.
Continue reading …Past Peak Oil Travelling Towards Transition Animation from Anita Sancha on Vimeo . Watch a very cute animation by self-described “eco animator” Anita Sancha . Where most Peak Oilers are pretty dystopian, Anita envisions a bucolic world full of wind power and bicycles, after a rather dramatic crash of our oil-powered vehicles. I hope she is right. Others are not so optimistic; More on Hubbert’s Peak below…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I seem to have made a couple of lucky choices in squash recipes this week. After the delicious squash pasta I had the other night, I tried something completely different with a kabocha squash. This time I braised it in a black bean sauce which turned out to be another wonderful dinner. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via wikipedia Thanks to more acidic oceans , jellyfish populations seem to be flourishing. While they aren’t exactly edible for humans, they might be useful for powering nanodevices. Swedish researcher have been turning thousands of Aequorea victoria, a common North American jellyfish species, into liquid and extracting a green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the animals glow in the dark to see if it can also he… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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