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Electric Sports Cars, SUVs and Mini-Vans in Fully Charged Round-up (Video)

Image credit: Fully Charged Robert Llewellyn has been busy once again. Having road tested of the BMW Mini-E , explored fast electric car charging , and reviewed the Nissan Leaf , the cult British TV presenter and comedy actor has also been trying out some more unusual EV’s. From a fully electric Range Rover SUV, through… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow’s Khimki Forest

Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow’s Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country’s most famous musicians and one of the world’s biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building a highway through an ancient oak forest near

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Notre Dame Begins Test Run of iPads With a Paperless Course

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The University of Notre Dame is taking the use of e-readers in classrooms seriously, embarking on a one year study of how the devices integrate into classrooms. The first course to have students use an iPad instead of any text books is Project Management, a class with 40 students that will not only use the iPad as a book, but will also be encouraged to use it for everything else in daily life and report back their impressions (hmmm, could that possibly have been at Apple’s request?). Apple is making a big push to turn iPads into the next big thin… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Canadian Tar Sands Industry & Government Maintains Higher Water Toxicity Near Projects is Natural

map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn’t much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP’s Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cotton Cloth Coated in Nanotubes Electrifies Bacteria to Purify Water

Image via Stanford University Fresh, clean, drinkable water is an increasingly rare thing on this planet, especially in places that are suffering through catastrophes like floods or must deal with high levels of pollution without the resources to set up water treatment facilities. But a project from Stanford University researchers could see cheap, simple filtration devices distributed through developing nations. How simple? Well, it’s just a piece of cotton cloth coated in nanotubes that filter out nearly all bacteria at a rat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cotton Cloth Coated in Nanotubes Electrifies Bacteria to Purify Water