Photo: Samuel Mann , Flickr, CC It’s likely to be the largest plastic bag ban to hit the US yet — enacted in parts of the sprawling LA county, the disposable containers will be off limits to 1.1 million people. In addition, paper bags will now cost 10 cents a pop for shoppers — providing yet another incentive for southern Californians to turn to reusable bags. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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LA County Passes Biggest Plastic Bag Ban in US
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Via: The Nature Conservancy Green Gift Monday blog. Black Friday is about crazy deals, waiting in line, excess spending, consumption, capitalism, you name it. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with giving. But if you’re going to give (‘Tis the Season), why not give with your gut, your conscience? If you’re looking for ideas that show you care for the person AND the planet, take the Black Friday weekend off, and go for Green Gift Monday on Nov. 29…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Gift Monday is the New Black Friday
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Image credit: Solar Tech South / Chapel Hill Tire As I write this post, I’m waiting for my annual car inspection. I’m staring at a flat-screen monitor that communicates just how much power is being channeled down from the 16.4kw PV array on the roof to help power the inspection. It’s just one more example of why asking when solar will reach grid parity is at least partially missing the point . Done right, for bu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Solar Delivers Much More than Electricity – Renewables as Branding Tool
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photo: tinabasgen / Creative Commons China has been the world’s foremost carbon emitter for over a year now–with per capita emissions now higher than those of France–and this summer overtook the US to become the world’s largest energy consumer as well. Now, according to new analysis by WWF , China can also check itself off on another eco-black list: If everyone on the planet consumed natural resources like the average Chine… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China’s Ecological Footprint Unsustainable – We’d Still Need 1.2 Planets if Everyone Had It
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Photo: Cogenra Two Birds With One Stone (But No Birds Actually Harmed) Solar water heaters make a lot of sense. Solar photovoltaic panels make a lot of sense too. But why choose between them? Startup Cogenra is combining the two solar technologies in its solar arrays, increasing the total amount of solar energy that can be captured (and thus reducing reliance on other sources of energy that aren’t as clean). It’s a very clever system, and if it works well, I hope most solar arrays that are close enough to a user of hot water will be like that in the future (obviously, it wouldn’t work if the array… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cogenra’s ‘Hybrid’ Solar System Captures 80% of the Sun’s Energy to Generates Electricity and Hot Water
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About 55% of waste from the Gulf oil spill has been disposed of in minority communities. Photo: Deepwater Horizon Response via flickr. With little fanfare other than press release a week ago (which I missed and Miller McCune didn’t) the Environmental Protection Agency has reconvened the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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EPA Revives Environmental Justice Working Group After Ten Year Hiatus
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Image: GM I Have a Special Request for GM To promote the launch of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, 6 Volts are about to embark on a cross-country tour. Over 3,400 miles and stops in 12 major cities are planned (see the schedule below), with special events where people will be able to do test-drives and talk to GM engineers. It all sounds good, but there’s something I’d like to request from GM and that I think would make this whole thing a lot more interested: Once all this is all over, I’d like GM to release details on how many gallons of gasoline and how many kWh of electricity were used during this ro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Chevy Volt Goes on a Tour of the USA
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Well there’s an interesting statement. In Rolling Stone’s recently published and widely circulated interview with Barack Obama , the president explains his thoughts on climate change and current US energy policy. Discussions of his frustration with the failure to pass national climate policy, how a new strategy to implement clean tech is needed, and so forth seem more than reasonable–and then he says this: The progress that we’re making on renewable energy, the progress that we’re making on retrofitting buildings and making sure t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obama: US on Target to Reduce Emissions by 17%
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Image via The Sierra Club Throughout the Gulf oil spill , BP pulled out all the stops to try and save their image — with a slurry of off-the-mark television advertisements airing across the United States. Still, their pricey PR campaign couldn’t come close to the impact felt after seeing the
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Is This the Worst Oil Advertisement Ever?
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Texas coal mine locations. Image credit: Energy Report – Coal; Window On State Governmen t, via TX Railroad Commission. USEPA is proposing that, by this coming January, permit applications for especially energy intensive operations cover greenhouse gases. That would include facility modifications as well as new plants and periodic updates of permits. In response, “the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, told the EPA in a letter last month that Texas would openly defy the regulations and refuse to ens… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Texas Will Refuse To Implement Federal Permitting Rule On Greehnouse Gas Emissions
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