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Sony’s Hana Mado Solar Panel Brings Fun Back to Solar Cells

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Sony’s Hana Mado Solar Panel Brings Fun Back to Solar Cells

Photo via Gizmag The ability of a solar cell to turn light into electricity is exciting. However, solar cells themselves are boring, and usually ugly too. That’s one of the reasons why integrating them into fashion and home decor has been so difficult. But Sony aims to change that with a new product called Hana Mado, or “Flower Window,” introduced at the Eco Products 2010 exhibition in Tokyo last weekend. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UK Anti-Coal Activists Found Guilty, Despite Supporting Testimony From NASA’s James Hansen

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on UK Anti-Coal Activists Found Guilty, Despite Supporting Testimony From NASA’s James Hansen

Image: World Development Movement via flickr Despite a two-hour testimony by NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen this week, a UK court found 20 environmental activists who tried to shut down a coal plant last year guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UK Anti-Coal Activists Found Guilty, Despite Supporting Testimony From NASA’s James Hansen

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on UK Anti-Coal Activists Found Guilty, Despite Supporting Testimony From NASA’s James Hansen

Image: World Development Movement via flickr Despite a two-hour testimony by NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen this week, a UK court found 20 environmental activists who tried to shut down a coal plant last year guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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5 Green Things We Really Need More Of

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 5 Green Things We Really Need More Of

Photo courtesy Pink Sherbet Photography via flickr and Creative Commons . The continuous flow of press releases through the TreeHugger mailboxes is truly astrounding, and mostly inspiring. So many green entrepreneurs, with so many great ideas! After a while, however, a discernible pattern appears of the products that continue to flow into the market. Green, sustainable messenger bags, no shortage there.

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West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Image: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr An EPA-funded study found recently that not only is the West Nile virus more prevalent in low-income neighborhoods, but that economic conditions, including personal income, are the greatest predictor of disease occurrence. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Factory Farms Decreasing in Number, But Increasing in Size: 20 Percent Growth in 5 Years

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Factory Farms Decreasing in Number, But Increasing in Size: 20 Percent Growth in 5 Years

Image: Friend of Family Farmers via flickr Despite small but significant signs that the country wants to move in a different direction, factory farms across the country are growing at an unprecedented rate—not in number, but in size. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Saving the Oyster, and the Bay: Shell Recycling Program Replenishes Endangered Oyster Population

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Saving the Oyster, and the Bay: Shell Recycling Program Replenishes Endangered Oyster Population

Image: fotologic via flickr Recycling, it turns out, is not reserved for inanimate objects. An increasingly popular Chesapeake Bay program is sending oyster shells collected from restaurants, which save the shells from customers’ meals, back into the bay, where they form homes for new oysters. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles

Image: Abigail Batchelder via flickr Barely a week after the U.S. Senate failed, because of industry influence, to ban BPA in baby bottles and limit its use in other children’s products, the EU passed a very similar ban that will go into effect next year…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mayor Bloomberg Warns Against Fracking in Delaware River Basin

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Mayor Bloomberg Warns Against Fracking in Delaware River Basin

Image: Ari Moore via flickr Apparently New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg shares at least some of the concerns about natural gas drilling—known as hydraulic fracturing , or fracking—that communities and environmentalists have about its safety. He… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York City Gets Serious About Local, Sustainable Food

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New York City Gets Serious About Local, Sustainable Food

Image: Teesha Dunn via flickr When New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the 59-point-plan, “FoodWorks,” yesterday, she unveiled the city’s latest move to reduce its environmental footprint, and boost the local economy and health of its citizens. The plan is designed to address all aspects of food in the city, from agricultural production through post-consumption…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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