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Plumen Proves We Want Weirdly Shaped Light Bulbs

Image via Plumen A couple years ago, we told you about a concept light bulb called Plumen

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Plumen Proves We Want Weirdly Shaped Light Bulbs

Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around

We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we’ve built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal

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Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around

Climate Change Already Pushing Vegetation Towards Poles & Equator

Vegetation around the globe has already been moving in response to global climate change , a new report in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography shows. In fact the report authors say that since the 18th century they have found fifteen cases where biomes have shifted because of temperature and precipitation changes (see map below)–vegetation has moved up mountainsides towards cooler temperatures and to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Change Already Pushing Vegetation Towards Poles & Equator