Image via Live Science video The walnut sphinx caterpillar has a trick up its sleeve — er, side — to keep birds from chomping on it. The clever bug can make an odd whistling sound, which startles birds enough that they usually just leave it alone. Researchers didn’t know how it managed to make this sound, so they set up cameras and began experimenting. The results are rather strange. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Researchers Discover Caterpillar Whistles to Ward Off Birds
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Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)
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Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)
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Photos: Planar. I have to admit I’m a bit the green grinch of the family: I really can’t stand all the mindless consumption over the holidays, and I’m always pushing the buy nothing concept. I don’t even have a Christmas tree. If I did, however, these cute, biodegradable wool felt figures would probably be the ornaments hanging from it instead of plastic shinny balls. More on them and Planar inside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cute, Low Impact Wool Felt Christmas Tree Ornaments by Planar
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Image: Worrell Water Technologies Enter the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on the Mexican border, and you’ll never know just by looking around that you’re walking through a “living machine” wastewater recycling system. But when installation is complete, a custom-designed system will treat and recycle wastewater on site, reducing “generation of wastewater and demand for potable water, while increasing the local aquifer recharge,” according to the company that designed the system, Worrell Water Technologies…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. Border Crossing to Become Wastewater-Recycling Living Machine
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Photo: Hitesh Mehta/Collins Design Whether you’re planning your next splurge of a vacation — or just trying to mentally escape your drab cubicle — the striking architecture and views of these environmentally-friendly hotels will do the trick. In Authentic Ecolodges , author and architect Hitesh Mehta highlights 36 of the most beautiful — and sustainable– hotels around the world, from China and Thailand to Canada and Tazmania, ranging in price from $15 a night to over $500 a night. We’ve highlighted 10 of the most incredible hotels here, with descrip… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Hitesh Mehta/Collins Design Whether you’re planning your next splurge of a vacation — or just trying to mentally escape your drab cubicle — the striking architecture and views of these environmentally-friendly hotels will do the trick. In Authentic Ecolodges , author and architect Hitesh Mehta highlights 36 of the most beautiful — and sustainable– hotels around the world, from China and Thailand to Canada and Tazmania, ranging in price from $15 a night to over $500 a night. We’ve highlighted 10 of the most incredible hotels here, with descrip… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard LED Lights Are Coming of Age To paraphrase William Gibson, the future of lighting is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Light-emitting diodes (LED) lightbulbs have been coming on the market in the past few years, but their quality varies greatly, from “almost perfect” to “horrible” (kind of like the early compact fluorescents). I had the opportunity to spend a few days with two LED lightbulbs from Qnuru , and I’d like to share my impressions with you. Read on for more photos and my rev… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Qnuru 6.4W and 9.2W LED Lightbulbs (Product Review)
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Photo: mroach , Flickr, CC Yesterday, Matt reported on the rather unsurprising (yet still interesting to view in the light of day) news that Fox ‘journalists’ had been given direct instructions to essentially never report on climate change without offering skeptical talking points as well. Predictably, the green and liberal blogosphere, which loves to hate Fox, went abuzz. The most interesting point to be raised, in my opinion, was just how different… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rupert Murdoch & The Fox News Climate Conundrum
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Photo credit: skyseeker / Creative Commons In 1940, a hydroelectric dam was constructed in northern Akita Prefecture, Japan. The project, it was known at the time, would destroy the only native habitat of the black kokanee salmon by making the waters too acidic for the fish to survive. Still, developers went ahead with their plans. A concession was made to protect the species: 100,000 eggs were transported to nearby Lake Saiko. Unfortunately, the transplanted eggs did not hatch and the
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Fish Thought to Be Extinct for 70 Years Rediscovered
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