New Data Shows China & United States’ Carbon Emissions Still Way Higher Than Everyone Else’s
February 1, 2011 No Comment
View larger at The Guardian . Some new figures on global and national carbon emissions have been released by the EIA : China is far and away the largest national emitter; the US significantly trails in second place; India comes in a distant third. If there’s any good news in this it’s that global emissions are more or less stable, decline one-tenth of a percent in fact. That’s all based on 2009 data, the latest available. Here’s some further stat parsing:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …12 Post-Apocalypse Floating Cities and Homes: From Crazy Concepts to Reality (Slideshow)
February 1, 2011 No Comment
Embassy Of Drowned Nations Concept. Photo: Oculus. Nobody really knows how much the planet will warm up in the following years and what the consequences will be. But the growing number of natural disasters in 2010 , and the recent wave of animal deaths sure made many of us think about an a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Evening Standard The road can be a dangerous, even deadly place for cyclists, and battles between cars and bikes have a sneaky way of turning out in the driver’s favor . But by riding to work with a camera built into his helmet, London’s Ben Porter was able to prosecute a driver who’d cut him off and then got out of his… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Green Roofed Shipping Container, Recycled Furniture At Lovely Pop Up Cultural Center in Buenos Aires
February 1, 2011 No Comment
Photos: Paula Alvarado . Designed to set up ‘educational points’ at different areas of the city, a new pop up, nomad cultural center has opened at the explanade of the Proa foundation in La Boca neighborhood, Buenos Aires. It’s a project by architecture studio a77 , known for their Plug and Live system and work with repurposed materi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Leen Sadder From toothbrushes with reusable handles to recycled plastic toothbrushes there are already some green(er) options out there for more sustainable oral hygiene. But much of the world has one up on us Western consumers on this front—using a totally biodegradable twig to clean their teeth. What’s the best way to promote this product to the rest of us? Why, wrap it in plastic of course. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: csmonitor.com At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit Spacing.ca The War on Bikes in Toronto goes on, even in the middle of winter. It seems there has been an epidemic of bike crashes with pedestrians in Toronto (one death in three years, a 15 year old crashed into a woman who hit her head. The woman was not wearing a helmet.). Herb notes at IbikeTO that an average of 29 pedestrians are killed by cars each year in Toronto, and perhaps the campaign is disproportionately critical of cycli… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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My repeated assertions that environmentalism and socialism are not synonymous have certainly not convinced everyone. The fact is that while people from all walks of life, and all political persuasions, consider themselves friends of the environment, it is probably fair to say that the activist green community tends to skew left when it comes to politics. But a huge popular outcry is underway in the UK that reminds us that the environment is everybody’s treasure, and everybody’s responsibility. John Vidal over at The Guardian tells us that left and right, young and old, conservationists, unio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via MAKE Craftster Erik Pettersson came up with a cool idea for repurposing his old laptop — he turned it in to a digital picture frame with just a few adjustments and a frame from Ikea. But it shows that while some hacks keep electronics from going to the recycling bin, it doesn’t necessarily make them green. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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