published September 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Center for New Community TreeHugger is a blog about environmentalism, not racism, ethnicity or immigration. Yet from holocaust deniers at the Copenhagen climate talks to the sometimes xenophobic undertones of energy independence debate , there are times when these subjects collide. When David posted about a Yale essay that claimed
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Is Immigration a Green Issue? (Video)
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
There's a growing body of evidence that land-use conversion in the tropics, driven in part by biofuels, negates many of their benefits. Photo: Craig Morey via flickr. The UK government's own climate advisors have recommended that current biofuel targets for transport of 10% by 2020 are too high, given concerns about their impact on tropical forests. Currently the nation ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Martin Abegglen via flickr All the regulatory paper shuffling required to get the 240 MW Cape Wind project started is finally coming to an end. As Renewable Energy World reports, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the state can give the project a "composite certificate" superseding local regulatory agencies, some of which do not look favorably ...
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published August 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Advocates say harnessing the Gulf Stream could create one-third of Florida's energy needs. Image: NASA While most marine power projects rely on turbines or other power-generating devices in relatively shallow water, researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are attempting a new spin on the concept: Creating swarms of floating turbines, tethered to the sea floor or on movable undersea platforms, ...
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published August 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: OedipuSphinx (Creative Commons) A few years ago I got into a heated debate about Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth with a green-minded friend of mine. My hippy friend couldn't stand the movie—not because of anything it said, but because of the 'hypocrisy' of flying around the world to preach about climate change. "Doesn't he know this sends his ...
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published August 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Lollie-Pop /Flickr As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. The old energy economy, fueled by oil , coal , and natural gas , is being replaced by one powered by
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published August 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Look at How Much Energy is Wasted! The image above (see the full size version in this PDF ) is a snapshot of energy use in the United States in 2009. On the left, the different sources (solar, nuclear, hydro, wind, etc) and how many quads of energy they contribute, and then by following ...
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published August 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Zerocarbonista From announcing he would develop a "wind-powered" electric sports car , to the day the Nemesis electric car finally hit the track at 100mph , it's been a long and winding road for Dale Vince"— wind-energy entrepreneur and
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Nemesis Electric Car: 134mph in Wild Safety Tests (Video)
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published August 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Great British Refurb TreeHugger is no stranger to fancy new LEED platinum residences , but the fact remains that we must do something about our existing housing stock if we are ever going to get CO2 cuts on the scale needed. Luckily, people are exploring how to do just that. A while back we reported on the ...
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published August 4, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: LBL Assessments of the state of the US and world wind industry are frankly a dime a dozen, however a new one by the Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory offers some insights not found elsewhere--particularly in growth of wind power at the state level, the amount of wind power manufacturing taking place domestically, and the ...
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