Image credit: Moving Beyond Oil “The BP disaster in the Gulf is a wake up call,” Moving Beyond Oil says, “now is our chance to turn the tides and create a clean energy future that moves us beyond oil.” To make this happen, they are planning a mass action on the National Mall and they need everyone’s help to make it a success…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Declare Freedom From Oil on the National Mall
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Image: Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy As the Gulf disaster continues to unfold, people are looking at alternatives. Canada’s Minister of the environment has been pitching the Alberta oil sands as a greener, safer alternative, but as Jeff Rubin said , “You know you are at the bottom of the ninth when you are … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Goes Into (And Comes Out of) A Barrel Of Tar Sands Oil
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photo: m.prinke via flickr The race to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States continues with Rhode Island taking one more legislative step towards beating its neighbors. The Providence Journal reports that the state legislature has enacted a new law that speeds the time it takes to get regulatory approval between wind power developer… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rhode Island Offshore Wind Farm Takes Step Forward – And Some Environmentalists Are Upset?
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Image via Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies With off-grid charging for mobile devices set to be a $2.3 billion industry , it’s no wonder that practically every company specializing in personal off-grid power is trying to shrink down their products to something purse-sized. Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is known for their innovation in small scale power, showing off a
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Personal Fuel Cell Offers Pocket-Sized Power from Water (Video)
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The Apache AH-64D deployed by the US in Iraq; the same type as used in the Netherlands’ test flight. Photo: Wikipedia . Aviation biofuels continue to gain momentum, with both commercial airlines and the military all conducting test flights and in general finding them more efficient than petroleum-based fuels. While we’re still
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First Biofuel-Powered Helicopter Flight Made by Royal Netherlands Air Force
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Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It’s hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder
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Photo: Flickr , CC “Like going to the most amazing 3D movie you’ve ever seen and you can’t leave” A new study discovered that solar panels are apparently mesmerizing to certain types of insects (mostly aquatic). What happens is that solar panels reflect light in a way that is similar to how water reflects light, and this fools the insects, attracting them to the panels. “It’s like these organisms become dazzled to death,” said Bruce Robertson of Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners who l… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Solar Panels Fatally Attractive to Aquatic Insects
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Brendan Smialowski for the New York Times Peak Oil is not news to TreeHugger readers, but in the New York Times , John Leland talks to people who are preparing for food shortages, a collapse of the economy, a breakdown of civil order that many think is inevitable. He writes that “In bleak times, there is a boom in doom.” He puts the “doomers”…”somewhere between the environmental movement and the bunkered survivalists” and describes how they are packing away food, gold silver and no doubt guns and ammo for the inevitable collapse that will follow quic… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?
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Image: Bing screen grab. And Today It’s an Oil Pipeline… Statistically, most of you reading this are probably using Google to search the web, and so you haven’t seen the image above. It’s a screen grab of Bing , Microsoft’s search engine. Not quite a Google-killer, but it will soon power Yahoo search and has about 10% of the search market in the US. A couple days ago, Bing featured on its homepage a photo of solar panels, with links to articles explaining
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Microsoft Bing Features Solar Panels
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