Image: fancast.com Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company’s largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease arrangement. Campbell’s will lease the land and BNB Napoleon Solar LLC will build and own the 9.8 MW, 24,000-module photovoltaic system…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit Paul Raff Studio, Ben Rahn/A Frame Regular readers will know that we tend to favour simple, non-mechanical methods of green design, like passive solar heating instead of, say, thermal solar collectors with evacuated tubes and pumps. One of the simplest and most elegant solutions to retain solar heat is the Trombe wall, where solar heat is collected and stored in a wall of high thermal mass, tempering the heat gain during the day and releasing it at night. One of the best modern examples is Paul Raff’s slate covered Trombe wall in a
Continue reading …Don’t Worry About Peak Resources, God Will Provide and Fix, Says GOP Rep
February 17, 2011 No Comment
Take that, Jim Kunstler and all you peak oilers and climate warmers! According to Mike Beard, Republican state rep from Bachmannland, aka Minnesota, God will provide and repair. According to Huffpo: “God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable,” Beard told MinnPost. “We are not going to run out of anything.” God will fix it too; look what He did in Japan: “It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the earth]….How did Hiroshima and Nagasaki work out? We destroyed that, but here we are, 60 years lat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Stunning Library In Tropical Colombia Has Permeable Rock And Wood Walls
February 17, 2011 No CommentPhotos: Nicolás Cabrera . Colombian tropical town Villanueva’s popular library is an example of non pretentious architecture gone right. Projected by Alejandro Piñol, Germán Ramírez, Miguel Torres and Carlos Meza , it was built with local materials and workers (some former members of guerrilla groups), low budget, and designed to adapt harmoniously with the surroundings, need low maintenance and provide great indoor weather…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo credit: Unhindered by Talent / Creative Commons In early January, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that its Food Price Index had reached an all-time high in December, exceeding the previous record set during the 2007-08 price surge. Even more alarming, on February 3rd, the FAO announced that the December record had been broken in January… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photos: Brian Merchant Today, Greenpeace launched its anti-coal campaign with a bang — activists with the environmental group scaled the Bridgeport Harbor coal plant today, and unfurled a 20 X 40 ft banner there, announcing the message ‘Shut it Down: Quit Coal’ to the state of Connecticut. I’m on the scene reporting on the event — more specifically, I’m writing this post from inside my rental car, as the police have been holding me for over an hour now. I guess they don’t believe that I’m not a Greenpeace activist … here’s a closer look at what’s going on:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Herman Miller’s GreenHouse Factory Generates 15 Pounds of Landfill Waste Per Month
February 17, 2011 No Comment
Images credit Lloyd Alter This doesn’t look like any factory I have ever been in. The interior street (curved, because architect William McDonough wanted the experience to change as it unfolded before you) is full of plants and amenities; there are no doors separating it from the factory floor. But as attractive as the pictures of Herman Miller’s GreenHouse are, the real story is in the numbers, which are mind-boggling. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Rhian vK , used under Creative Commons license Whether it’s celebrity chefs feasting on endangered birds or wildlife smugglers trafficking in protected species , you’d think rare animals would have enough to worry about these days. So why would anyone even think of letting dogs loose in sensitive habitat … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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