published June 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Screenshot, Ecosia.org Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is powered by Bing) has raised $334,202.63 for the rainforest, and that number keeps climbing.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published March 17, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo by Boaz Arad via Flickr Creative Commons At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco this week, a panel of experts was asked about whether or not companies still care about carbon accounting. While the topic had a lot of buzz around it a couple years ago, it seems to have quieted down over the past year, despite the ...
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published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments
A new app called PlugShare for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is making it a whole lot easier to find convenient places to recharge your electric vehicle, which will make it a whole lot easier to reduce range anxiety. It comes just in time as gas prices hike upwards and consumers are taking a refreshed interest in EVs ...
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published January 29, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo Credit: Average Jane , Flickr. Granola can be a good source of fiber, and granola can be used as another word for Treehugger. Then there's grano.la. Notice the dot. It's a software program developed by a Virginia Tech prof with a TV star name and a graduate student with a fantastic mustache. The program can reportedly increase the ...
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published January 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Image via kaibara87 via Flickr Creative Commons Researchers have figured out that data can be stored in bacteria, and that a single gram of bacteria can store more information than 450 2-terabyte hard drives! This storing and encrypting information in living organisms is called biostorage, and students at Hong Kong's Chinese University are using E. coli to test the ...
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published December 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Ron Weaver, NSIDC One of a data center's biggest problems is keeping servers cool, and that's true even for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which offers data products to researchers and businesses about Arctic and Antarctic snow and ice. Of course, it doesn't want to be a contributor to the GHGs that speed up ...
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published December 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via FlyingSinger Modeling systems are incredibly helpful for anticipating the effects of everything from weather to policy decisions on the environment and human populations. They can simulate what might happen when a storm hits a coastline or a new farming policy is enacted that could impact ground water. Typically modeling systems are specific to topics or geographic areas. ...
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published December 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via TED Video TreeHugger has always been an advocate for share systems -- things like tool libraries, clothes swaps, car-sharing, and product-as-a-service systems like Netflix. The fewest products possible shared among the most people is very green indeed. The trends toward this networking of products has grown over the years, but author Rachel Botsman thinks its about to ...
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published December 20, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by lrargerich via Flickr Creative Commons What are city trees really worth? Just how much of a contribution do they make to cityscapes, and how can we calculate the pricetag? A software program called i-Tree helps to save urban trees by pinpointing their value. Created by the US Forest Service, the program hammers out cost-benefit calculations to quantify ...
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published August 20, 2010 and has No Comments
Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings via Wikipedia Dan Blankenhorn of Smart Planet was thinking of his commenters when he suggested that "trolls die young", based on a study researchers of the US National Institute on Aging . They looked at 5,614 Sardinians from four villages, and found that "those who scored high for antagonistic traits on a ...
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