published December 29, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Bhernandez / Creative Commons Since the end of 2010 is rapidly approaching and if you're like many people you're thinking about resolutions to undertake in the new year, I offer up one which will really help you make your life much greener: Stop Worrying. Specifically, stop worrying about the fate of the planet. Don't stop caring, but stop ...
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published December 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Hometta The modern gingerbread house industry looked so promising a few years ago; I eagerly followed every launch. But this year, it seems to have tanked as deeply as the modern construction industry. I would have thought that, along with the tiny house and shedworking movements, gingerbread would thrive in tough times; they are small, relatively economical and ...
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published December 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: Resources for a Sustainable Future There is a strange debate going on at Green Building Advisor, where a writer thinks "home buyers have been "brainwashed" into thinking only about R-values, as energy codes give short shrift to the importance of airtightness." The debate goes back and forth, but not once to they address the real point: How ...
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published December 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by respres via Flickr Creative Commons When I first read the headline of the article on PressDemocrat stating that kids are now to have access to fresh water where they eat their lunches, my jaw dropped a little. Have I been out of school long enough for all the water fountains in cafeterias to have disappeared?! Apparently, yes. ...
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published December 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Earthshipkirst Appalachian Gothic architecture made from recycled pallet wood is by no means the only DIY housing option using reclaimed materials. In fact, TreeHugger has featured countless posts on "earthships"—self-sufficient passive solar homes built from old tires, cans, mud and concrete. From Justin's introduction to the earthship concept , via Kristin's post on
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published December 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Pisces the constellation. Image credit: Aspin, 1825, via University of Oklahoma "History of Science" exhibit Hoping for a way to sustain the world's fisheries? PETA has a better idea: end fishing. Immediately on reading the headline " PETA offers state budget help with anti-fishing sign ," which was published at State House Live , I thought PETA is like ...
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published November 28, 2010 and has No Comments
US electricity demand projections...low but continuing rate. Image credit: USEIA Most of last remaining State electricity rate caps will have fallen away by the end of this year. The resulting electric bill increases - stemming from both "rate cap removal" and higher-priced coal - tend to be in the 20% and higher range. "Coal Dems" and "Tea Partiers" won't ...
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published November 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Takahumi Yamada When you live in small spaces, you don't necessarily want to have a lot of furniture. Now you can get rid of the coffee table by Daisuke Motogi's Lost in Sofa; it is designed so that you can stick things right into it. You will always have coffee money too, digging among the cushions. ... ...
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published November 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Castle in a pumpkin. Image credit: photo by John Laumer With Halloween 2010 only a day behind us and the mid-term elections tomorrow morning, likely-voter polls indicate Americans are up for a good ' hate it when that happens ' kick in the pants. Let's think about some of the key outcomes of the coming Congressional turnover. Just from ...
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published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps ...
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