Image credit: Andreas Demmelbauer , used under Creative Commons license. Whether it’s turning food waste into electricity , keeping bees near its stores , or launching city-wide electric vehicle charging
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Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic , but about every 18 months or so, we get together to connect and hash out some of the bigger issues that phone conversations can only help so much with. While telecommuting rocks in many ways (business casual = pajamas and bunnie slippers, and we can fully embrace the ability to
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Economist Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller talks to Melissa Shin of Corporate Knights about how Your city is about to get a whole lot bigger She concludes the interview by asking Rubin: What do you favour as an alternative to oil? Unfortunately, there is no substitute for oil as a transit fuel, mainly because natural gas packs only one quarter of the energy density of oil. We don’t have enough time [to d… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Patrick Finnegan , used under Creative Commons license Wind farms may often face opposition from NIMBY protesters , but it doesn’t always have to be that way. Not long ago I reported on how residents near a proposed wind farm were greatly in favor of the project . And now we come across a story of a village … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Week in Animal News: Penguins Showering, 82 Whales Stranded, Baby Gorillas, and More (Slideshow)
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Photo: Burrard-Lucas.com Penguins lining up for a shower? Bring on the cute overload. We also have a set of rare baby mountain gorilla twins, the shocking story of 82 whales stranded, happy pigs freed from a factory farm, the ironic death of a gambler at a cockfight, and more.
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Photo: americaspower , Flickr, CC Debunking the Notion that Creating Green Jobs is Bad for the Economy A newly released study suggested that upholding the new, stricter EPA Clean Air Act rules would create a slew of new jobs — something along the order of 1.5 million of them . On the face of it, it’s a win-win: Cleaner air for the nation, and jobs for construction workers, engineers, and pipefitters in the short term. But detracto… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Week in Pictures: Valentine’s Day Gifts, Candy Wrapper Chair, and More (Slideshow)
February 11, 2011 No Comment
A chair made of candy wrappers? This funky piece, called, quite bizarrely, the ‘Snowjob,’ is the work of Emiliano Godoy , in collaboration with ethical accessories label Ecoist. We also have Valentine’s Day gifts sweet on the Earth, shocking factory farm stories, sustainable H&M, a photographer’s journey to a volcano in Antarctica , and more in our photo roundup of the Week in Pictur… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH
February 11, 2011 No Comment
Strasbourg’s Place de l’Homme de Fer. Photo: Lauri Pitkänen under a Creative Commons license . Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, is already one of the country’s most bike-friendly cities. Fewer than half of its residents use a car to get around, and it has more than 300 miles of bike lines, not to mention a tramway network that is the longest and densest in France. Now the city is really throwing down the gauntlet: it announced this week its plan to reduc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Suunto Core Wrist-Top Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and Depth Measurement (Light Green) . Image and caption credit: Amazon . Fashion watches will soon disappear from department stores, extirpated by the same thing that’s wiping out phone books and yellow pages: digital devices. When a fellow wants to know what time it is there’s usually cell phone in his pocket (which, marvelously, someone else is responsible for keeping set). That phone handles time-zone change automatically – something few fas… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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