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Buyers Get Money Towards Purchasing Electric Cars in UK

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Photo: indianblogs Buyers of some electric cars will be given up to £5,000 ($7,800) towards their purchase. With its new £43M plan to encourage people to drive electric and low-carbon cars, the government has announced that buyers of 9 models of cars will be rewarded with a subsidy worth a quarter of the price of the car, in some cases. The winners are: the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Smart fortwo electric drive, the Peugeot iO… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tom Philpott on the Dangers of Locavore Snobbery

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Image credit: Natalie Maynor , used under Creative Commons license. I’ve written before about the dangers of pious eco-religion and green living as passive aggressive preaching , and I’ve asked whether it is even possible to preach green without being pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UK Carbon Emissions From Shipping Six Times Higher Than Reported: New Study

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

photo: Steve Gibson/photohome.co.uk via flickr There’ve been lots of attempt to calculate the true climate change cost of globalized shipping of goods on a nation-by-nation basis, with divergent results based upon where the boundaries are drawn. A new attempt at that from the University of Manchester says that carbon emission… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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LED Lighting Has Become Almost Boring, and That’s A Good Thing

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

spacewalker by Dark, displayed by Eurolite all lousy images by Lloyd Alter We become so jaded and blase´. A few years ago, walking through the Light Canada Show (part of IIDEX and the Green Living Festival in Toronto) I was bug-eyed at all of the wonderful innovation in LED lighting. But in just a few years they have become mainstream and commodified, and I really found the pickings to be slim, mostly just another strip light or street light or ceiling. I know that this i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can We Preach Green Without Being Preachy? (Video)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: UNEP I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists , and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching , disasterbation , not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying

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27 Tips For Keeping Cool From Planet Green

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

When it comes to green living, Planet Green is the go-to for how-to, and has been beating to death the subject of beating the heat. We round up a few cool thoughts: Should We Declare Heat Days Like We Declare Snow Days? People have lived without air conditioning in hot places for thousands of years by adapting themselves to the heat–remember that the widespread air conditioning use has only become the norm in the past 15 years or so,