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The Post Carbon Reader: Track to The Future

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Post Carbon Reader: Track to The Future

Image: The Post Carbon Institute The Post Carbon Institute see their task as “leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.” And one of their current projects is the upcoming publication of a 540 page book, The Post Carbon Reader. Containing essays on renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience from a who’s-who of provocative thinkers, the book is available for pre-ordering with a 20% discount. Or as a free, part download…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is This the Worst Oil Advertisement Ever?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is This the Worst Oil Advertisement Ever?

Image via The Sierra Club Throughout the Gulf oil spill , BP pulled out all the stops to try and save their image — with a slurry of off-the-mark television advertisements airing across the United States. Still, their pricey PR campaign couldn’t come close to the impact felt after seeing the

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Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

Image via Leonardo Bonanni This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green , one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at Los Angeles Center Studios. Copy paper was the medium but the message was about its carbon footprint. New Leaf Paper ,

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Training to Swim the English Channel: The Waiting Game

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Free Nature Pictures Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives. I wasn’t far off the mark when I described my swim as a labor of sorts. I’m more than three weeks overdue and practically bursting with anticipation. Tide and time may wait for no man, but they will hold you to an uncertain vigil, checking the

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Existing House Transformed into Eco Home-of-the-Future (Video)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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 Great British Refurb—… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Will Libraries Turn Into Digital Reading Rooms?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via CCAC North Library We’re fans of e-readers. They’re a way to dramatically decrease how many trees are used in the production of reading materials, especially text books, magazines and newspapers. But they have their place. While we love e-readers, we love libraries even more. Paper books that are shared over and over again are far greener than an electronic gadget. But, as e-books take over and the e-reader market booms, will libraries start to follow suit? Sony hopes so, with a new program to promote digital reading in libraries…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Spill Esimate DOUBLED AGAIN: 2.5 Million Gallons Leaking a Day

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Reuters Well, things keep on getting better and better in the ongoing saga of catastrophe that is the BP Gulf oil spill . Shortly after Obama took to the oval office to give a speech to reassure the nation about the spill , officials released the newest estimates of how much oil was leaking from the Deepwater Horizon site. And they weren’t pretty:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Video Conferencing Can Save $19 Billion, 5.5 Million Tons of CO2

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by Scottfeldstein A new report by by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and sponsored by AT&T has revealed that videoconferencing can mean huge savings for companies, both in money and carbon footprints. According to the report, adding a telepresence to their repertoire can mean U.S. and U.K. businesses “cut CO2 emissions by nearly 5.5 million metric tons in total…and achieve total economy-wide financial benefits of almost $19 billion, by 2020.” As businesses are forced to cut back drastically in both areas to survive the latest economic… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s The Carbon Footprint of a Heart Bypass? Who Cares.

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: NC Museum of History Only yesterday I lamented the fact that too many TreeHuggers are overly focused on individual carbon footprints as a metric for success . So what should I make of news from The Guardian that a heart bypass operation carries with it a huge carbon footprint—as much as two short-haul flights? Should we worry that some over zealous greenies will advocate forgoing life saving surgery in the name of stopping climate change? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is It Time We Maximise Our Ecological Impact? Being Less Bad is Not Enough

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Pasty Muncher I’ve been thinking some more about why individual environmental action is not enough . It’s not just that the metric for success—personal reductions in our impact, as opposed to collective—is on the wrong scale. It’s the wrong metric too. We are spending so much time worrying about how to reduce our impact, and be less bad, we are loosing sight of the fact that we can’t just slow the destruction. We have to reverse it too. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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