President Barack Obama is restructuring his economic advisory board to place an emphasis on job creation, and he is naming General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt as its new head. The new board, called the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, will replace the former Economic Recovery Advisory Board that had…
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Photo by mikebaird via Flickr Creative Commons Peter Tyack is dedicated to studying how sound impacts marine mammals. As we know, whales and dolphins rely on vocalization to find food and one another. Many species are able to hear each other over vast distances, locating one another to breed and migrate to feeding grounds. Their sensitivity to sound means that the human activity in the ocean — from the
Continue reading …Interactive Country Comparisons on Electricity, Oil, and More Is An Eye Opener
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Image via If It Were My Home Last year during the oil spill, If It Were My Home showed us what the oil spill would look like if it were covering where we live. Superimposing the area of the oil spill over my home in San Francisco was a real eye opener for exactly how big it was. Sometimes changing the context of information is what’s needed to get the point across. If It Were My Home is at it again with more information, comparing the UK to other countries across the world, and displaying what you’d be like if you lived there in… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Circle of Blue Coal tar is an awful thing to deal with. It is a relic by-product from the early 20th century process of carbonizing coal to made coke or gasifying it to make coal gas. The resulting coal tar can have a wide range of substances mixed into it, and while it has many uses from skin treatments to food dyes, it is definitely considered a pollutant in the Hudson River. However, a project in New York’s Hudson Ri… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Nejdra Nance—or, as her biological parents know her, Carlina White—has been reunited with her real family after 23 years , but the story is far from over. While her appearance answers a lot of questions for her biological family and Nance herself, it raises others—the most pressing of…
Continue reading …Record number of aircraft ‘laser events’ gives us one more reason to hate LA
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Are you that kid aiming his father’s laser pointer at people walking along city sidewalks? Yeah, well stop it — now. What you might consider a harmless prank can have serious repercussions when aimed at the cockpit of an approaching jetliner. What seems like good fun at the time can temporarily blind a pilot attempting to land nearly a million pounds of life, metal, and fuel. According to the numbers just released by the FAA, 2010 saw a record number of reports of lasers pointed at aircraft — “almost double” the number of reports from 2009. Of the 2,800 incidents reported nationwide, the Los Angeles area reported the most with 201 incidents, followed by Chicago (98), Pheonix (80, half of which were probably UFO related), and San Jose (80 — nerds!). Top 20 list after the break. Continue reading Record number of aircraft ‘laser events’ gives us one more reason to hate LA Record number of aircraft ‘laser events’ gives us one more reason to hate LA originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Meguru is the world’s first EV rickshaw it didn’t know it needed (video)
January 21, 2011 No Comment
If you’ve never experience the thrill that is fearing for your life while some crazy rickshaw jockey takes you tearing through a busy street, two-stroke engine screaming even louder than you, you haven’t really lived. Soon there’ll be no 175cc engine to drown out your lamentations, with the Meguru offering all that thrill and style with an EV powertrain. It has a traditional Japanese design with motorcycle-derived innards but a cushy (and tackily upholstered) back seat for two — or maybe three depending on how friendly everyone is. The side curtains are made of bamboo and washi paper, giving it a look that says “I’m at least partially organic.” It’s available now for a mere
Continue reading …Recruiting and training replacements for gay service members discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy cost the Pentagon a whopping $193 million from 2004 to 2009, according to the Government Accountability Office. The analysis found that 1,442 of the 3,664 service members dismissed for being gay…
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Photo courtesy Marty Odlin from a trip to Ghana in 2009. There’s no question that TreeHugger loves bamboo bikes. We’ve shown readers bamboo bikes of every stripe – high performance bamboo bikes , high statement bamboo bikes , and even DIY bamboo bikes. And though we explained why bamboo bikes are
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South Korea says its commandos stormed a hijacked ship in the Arabian sea Friday, freeing 21 crew, killing eight pirates and capturing five. President Lee Myung-bak hailed what he called a perfect operation. (Jan. 21)
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