EPA Report Confirms: Location Efficiency Is As Important as Energy Efficiency
February 24, 2011 No Comment
Image credit: EPA. click to enlarge Kaid Benfield , Alex Wilson and others including myself have been making this argument for a while: where you live matters more for energy consumption than what you live in . Now… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …World’s First Dengue Fever Vaccine Developed – Public Sale Still a Decade Off
February 24, 2011 No Comment
photo: Wikipedia Researchers in Thailand have announced that they have developed the world’s first live attenuated vaccine for dengue fever . Endemic in over 100 nations, and spreading due to climate change as the mosquitos which carry it expand their range, dengue infects somewhere between 50-100… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Javier RodrÃguez Acevedo. Asked to design a dining room so that workers from the Chilean countryside could have their meals under some shadow and with more comfort, architect Javier Rodriguez Acevedo came up with this simple design that uses local materials from the area in a low impact construction that blends harmonically with the surrounding…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit Amândio Neto It’s not exactly Gary Chang’s domestic transformer four minutes of wow , but this Portuguese apartment has a giant moving closet that separates the living area from the sleeping, and much like the winner in the LifeEdited competition , it moves according to the need… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Growing Concern That Republicans’ E-Verify Plan Would Deport U.S. Agriculture Along With Workers
February 24, 2011 No Comment
Image: sodahead.com If you aren’t familiar with E-Verify, it’s “an Internet-based system that allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.” Efforts to require businesses to use it are being waged at the state level
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Image credit: WebTeamRiverCottage Last week’s post on beekeeping alternatives and top-bar hives drew a lot of attention, as did this video introduction to beekeeping . So I am guessing the fact that celebrity eco-chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is exploring beekeeping will also be of some interest to our bee-friendly readers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit JosephIWMolto , Wikipedia Commons Donovan Rypkema once suggested that LEED was an acronym for ” Lunatic Environmentalists Enthusiastically Demolishing .” In Toronto recently, there was a case of blatant misuse of LEED, using it as an excuse to knock down a bungalow to replace it with a house 2-1/2 times the area and double the height of any other in sight, (with a tower that is even higher) but hey, it’s OK, because it’s gonna be LE… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …How Much Ocean Pollution Falls From The Sky? New Method To Take Measurements.
February 24, 2011 No Comment
Photo by mrpbps We know that a significant portion of ocean pollution comes from particles in the air released by fossil fuel combustion, power plants and the like, and that rainfall is a primary way it moves from air to ocean. But just how much of the ocean’s pollution from from airborne chemicals? Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have developed … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World (Book Review)
February 24, 2011 No Comment
From his ongoing work through the Blue Ocean Institute , to his moving TED talk about the gulf oil spill’s unseen victims, Carl Safina is one of our favorite ocean activists. Now, he is moving into the territory of Henry David Thoreau or even William Jordan with his new book Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World , which takes a hard look at the seasonal changes in Safina’s home of Lazy Point in Long Island and … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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