Photo: Daimler One Size Fits All? So far, Daimler has developed its own hybrid drivetrain technology. See, for example, the Mercedes S400 hybrid , which has the distinction of being the first mass-produced hybrid with a lithium-ion battery pack. But that might be about to change, according to the Nikkan Jidosha newspaper in Japan. It is claimed that Daimler and Toyota are currently negotiating a deal to license Toyota’s hybrid tech…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Uncyclopedia Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative , billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres , essentially the world’s top international climate negotiator, to discuss policy and business solutions for global warming. Figuere… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why Can’t Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)
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Apologies if you live in someplace that Hulu won’t let you watch this hilarious and apropos clip of Mr Burns blocking out the sun from a 1995 episode of The Simpsons. Among the more high risk methods of geoengineering ,
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Reflecting Sunlight Away From Earth to Cool the Planet Could Help Some Places, Really Hurt Others
If you thought killing the Macondo well over the weekend meant that the all to familiar saga of
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BP & Feds Ban Journalists Digging Sand or Building Sandcastles on Beach
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Image credit: Pentti Linkola Fansite I confess I’ve always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as “Hitler Youth” , or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie . While environmentalism, like any movement, does attract its fair share of extremists, the vast majority of greens I have met are pragmatic, democratically-minded souls with a firm belief in … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Dark Threat of Ecofascism
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Image: Hello Electric Nice PR Coup! For a few years, BP (originally British Petroleum) has tried to rebrand itself as “Beyond Petroleum”. The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has made obvious that BP was far from being beyond oil (though beyond the pale, at times), but it’s never too late to start. A group called Hello Electric wants to give an electric car to Tony Hayward, who will soon step down as BP CEO, along with a letter encouraging him to become an EV ambassador. Read on for more det… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hello Electric Wants to Give BP CEO Tony Hayward an Electric Car
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photo: Sara Novak When I saw this story I couldn’t help the huge grin that appeared on my face. I was born and raised in Charlottesville, Va so a story such as this in my small hometown lightens my heart. While hospital food certainly has a bad reputation, and in many cases, it’s deserved, the University Health System at the University of Virginia is taking steps to change all that thanks to Local Food Hub …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Changing the Face of Hospital Food in Virginia
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photo via flickr Washington, D.C. viewers of the The Daily Show on Sept. 16 saw a powerful commercial that just might convince them to never pick up another Big Mac. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) aired a commercial set in a morgue, a loving family surrounding a corpse that presumably was felled by fatty food from McDonald’s. The tag line reads: “I Was Lovin’ It.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Some Washington Area Doctors ‘Not Lovin’ McDonald’s Menu
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“McCarthy brandishing one of his infamous lists,” Image credit: Knowledge Rush Environmentalists in Pennsylvania may have more in common with the “Tea Party” crowd than they might like to admit. Both have been similarly spied on and reported to PA authorities as ‘security risks,’ simply because they expressed their Constitutional rights to free speech and/or to peaceful public assembly. Brian recently covered the absurd-sounding story of a Philadelphia-based ‘ security company ‘ contract with Pennsylvania’s Department of Homeland Security – prov… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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