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World’s Scientists to Carry Out Independent Review of IPCC

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:40:00 +0000

Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by the Inter-Academy Council–and it will be conducted completely independently of the United Nations. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:59:00 +0000

photo: Wikipedia

This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:40 +0000

Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted.”

1. Palm Oil

Many of those substances are bad for our health, bad for our planet and show up in really surprising places. One of the most blatant examples is palm oil, which is now found in just about everything; alm…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Interview and Video: Director of VBS.tv’s "Heimo’s Arctic Refuge" On the Most Far Out Americans

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:02 +0000

Survivalism may be going mainstream, what will all the new cave men and off-gridders. But for Heimo and Edna Korth, survival in the wild has been a way of life for three decades. The last humans to be living in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and living 130 miles above the Arctic Circle, they are quite possibly the most remote Ameri…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Cove Documentary Set To Become A TV Series on Animal Planet

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:25:00 +0000

Photo via The Cove

The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar, and now it just might turn into a new TV Series on Animal Planet starting this fall. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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No More Downcycling? Breakthrough Organic Catalyst = More Effective PET Plastic Recycling

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:53:26 +0000

Photo: Monica M. Davey/Feature Photo Service for IBM

13 Billion PET Plastic Bottles are Thrown Away Each Year
Certain things are harder to recycle than others. While it’s relatively easy to make a new aluminum can out of an old aluminum can, making a new plastic bottle out of an old one is a lot harder. Currently, most recycled plastic is not truly recycled, but rather downcycled to a lesser use. But thanks to a breakthrough in green chemistry by IBM and Stanford researchers, this might be about to change!…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Breakthrough Producing Hydrogen from Water + Sunlight

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:09:32 +0000

Image: Angewandte Chemie, Wiley

Sunlight + Water = Hydrogen Gas
Scientists at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr. Thomas Nann, report a breakthrough in the production of hydrogen from water using the energy of sunlight. Amidst all the hype about a potential hydrogen economy, which would rely upon the highly energetic and clean burning hydrogen atom, one of the big questions has been whether sufficient hydrog…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Controversy Erupts Over Planning Reform in Israel

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0000

A building under renovation in Tel Aviv – Jaffa. Photo by Jesse Fox.

Israel’s planning system is inefficient, and long overdue for a reform – on this, almost everyone agrees. What kind of reform? On this there is no consensus, but plenty of ideas are floating around. In the meantime, an expeditious attempt to reform the system has ignited a storm of controversy, and even the High Court has been drawn into the dispute, issuing an injunction last week temporarily preventing the government from even discussing the matter.

What is it about planning reform that has so many people in Israel in an uproar?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hand-Powered Log Splitter: A Safe Alternative to the Axe (Video)

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:10:12 +0000

Image credit: Smart Log Splitter

From effective masonry heaters to beautiful Danish wood stoves, the Scandinavians know a thing or two about heating with wood. And as Collin stated in his post on wood stoves vs pellet stoves, with trees being a near carbon neutral source of energy, efficient wood burn…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Things That Could Suddenly Make Americans Love Electric Vehicles

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:39:47 +0000

Commuter park and ride lot. Image credit:Virginia DOT.

Post about a transformational technology here and comments are sure to contain one-off criticisms. Many of these critiques become memes that return any time a certain phrase is mentioned. ‘Wind power is unreliable.’ ‘Hydrogen cars will never work because…’ ‘Green jobs programs are socialist.’ No matter that the success of transformational technologies must hang on many factors.

For example, setting aside design for a moment, a b…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Manatee Cousins in Mideast Face Uncertain Future

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:43:00 +0000

A dugong in an aquarium in Sydney, Australia. Photo by jo3hug via Flickr.

It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have been the inspiration for the myth of the mermaid. While the fictional fish-human hybrids were believed to have “called sailors to their death by encouraging them to jump overboard from their ships,” Green ProphetRead the full story on TreeHugger

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Recycle Old Jeans Into Insulation at the Gap, this Weekend!

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:06:47 +0000

UltraTouch Jean fiber insulation. Credit: UltraTouch

Today through March 14, bring your worn down denims to Gap stores across the United States and they will be recycled into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation. The retail chain has teamed up with Cotton Incorporated for their COTTON. FROM BLUE TO GREEN.® denim drive; once jeans are converted into insulation they will be donated to communities in need. Click through for discounts and more on the pro…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Color-Changing Creatures You Have to See to Believe (Slideshow)

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:19 +0000

Photo via Killer Plants

The chameleon gets all the attention — but it’s not the only member of the animal kingdom that can alter its color and texture to suit its mood. From spiders that take on the color of their flower (like the one shown here) and flounder that match the sea floor to wolves that get a seasonal makeover and an octopus that goes red with rage, could you spot these super-camouflaged creatures in the wild?

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US Gains 2500 Gigawatts of Wind Power Potential Thanks to Taller Turbines

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:00 +0000

photo: John Schanlaub via flickr.

A new analysis of the United States’ wind power potential for the lower 48 states has been released by AWS Truewind and shows that increases turbine height mean the nation gains an additional 2,500 gigawatts of onshore power….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Perverse Hybrid Incentive

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:32:07 +0000

Image credit: Method

The hybrid car has become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners. But what is the real intention of all these incentives? Did someone consider the effects of these perks when they were designed?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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