Photo: Royal Court At last, a play about the environment that isn’t preaching to the converted and is bringing in the crowds. The Heretic at London’s Royal Court Theatre is painfully witty in its intelligent look at what we believe in 2011. It helps that it stars Juliet Stevenson , one of the most interesting actresses on the theatre scene. Playing a scientist and skeptic, the dialogue with her colleague makes for some of the sharpest and funniest parts of the p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: miheco The organic watchdog group Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint with the FTC claiming that Peace Cereal was deliberately misleading consumers into thinking that their cereal was organic in order to garner an increased profit. According to Cornucopia , Peace Cereal is priced higher than many name brand certified organic cereals…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: fiskfisk / CC The woods, meadows, and streams of California’s Tahoe National Forest make up a diverse ecosystem, rich in biodiversity and home to a variety of wild animals — but for one male wolverine that calls the region ‘home’, things are a little on the lonely side. Buddy, as he’s known, was first spotted three years ago, the first confirmed sighting of a wolverine in California since 1922. Research… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: leocbrito A lot has changed in the last 40 years, hasn’t it? From the rise of personal computers and the Internet, to tubeless toilet-paper and carnivorous clocks — the world today hardly resembles the one seen in faded photos of people with big hair dancing to disco that our parents closely guard. But, acc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Carbon Nation," Focusing on Climate Solutions, Hitting Theaters Soon (Video)
February 20, 2011 No Comment
van jones, via Ted Talks It took ” An Inconvenient Truth” and then ” The Age of Stupid ” to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were short on presenting solutions, leaving many feeling powerless. Enter ” Carbon Nation ,” a new documentary that shows what can be done to slow and reverse climate change before it’s too late. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Last Lions Film Review: Five Years to Save the Wild African Populations!
February 20, 2011 No Comment
For every trailer viewing of The Last Lions on YouTube , National Geographic will contribute $.10 to lion and big cat conservation in Botswana, Africa. My Friday evening was any ‘Huggers dream date. Dinner and a nature documentary – the New York opening of The Last Lions . Imagine a cinematic slice of life in Botswana, Africa as told by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons. The lens narrows on one resilient lioness in particular and her harrowing plight to survive and raise her cubs–displaced on the we… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Hydrogen spectrum, cosmiccandace Last time we checked in on Thomas Mallouk’s work applying biomimicry to generate hydrogen , he was reporting about 0.3 percent efficiency. According to his projections, the proof-of-concept device for producing hydrogen using the same trick applied in plants for photosynthesis could eventually reach efficiencies of 10-15%, beating nature’s average of 1 to 3 percent. Mallouk is back at the annual meeting of the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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