Photo: Flickr , CC Adding 3MW Turbines Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines to the existing 140, increasing the capacity of the wind farm from the current 322 megawatts to 539 megawatts. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Expand to 539 Megawatts
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Credit: Photos via facebook.com/meeteater . I like “Meet Eater,” at least on Facebook. Not much happened after I hit the “Like” button to express my, um, admiration. Apparently, though, every time this plant makes a friend on Facebook, an electronic system delivers water and nutrients. No friends, no love? Dead plant. Unhappy Meet Eater…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Meet Eater,’ the Plant That Lives on Social Media
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Handmade is becoming big business — reeeally big. Etsy — the online marketplace for handmade items — announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not including the funding). With sales up a whopping 72% from last year, business is booming — not to mention ex-Google exec Adam Freed being roped in as Etsy’s new chief operating officer. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing
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Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you’ve been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they’ve been working on the first stage of their “Elephant Trails” project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habitats for the zoo’s Asian elephants that will allow the endangered animals to thrive. Phase I, which opened to the public yesterday, includes two new outdoor yards and an elephant barn, which is
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Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian National Zoo
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photo via Nike In an attempt to honor the 29 coal miners who tragically died last year at the Upper Big Branch coal mine , the West Virginia University Mountaineers have teamed up with Nike to create new football uniforms that have the mark of coal. The uniforms are white, but have coal dust on the pants and shoulders. The yellow strip on the hemet is said to represent a miner’s headlamp. In the photo featuring the new uniform a player appears to be emerging from a strip mine, leav… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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West Virginia Football Uniforms To Honor Coal, Fallen Miners
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Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed “clean coal” power plant. Image credit: Illinois Times Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explain, in a last-year kind of way, why Obama’s Energy Department supports this $3.5 billion fantasy. (Several major conceptual design changes have been made since the Bush Ad… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford
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Photo by Taberandrew Despite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007 , California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience shops would have taken effect by July 2012 in larger stores, and 2013 in smaller stores, and it would have made California the first state to institute a ban like this. It was
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California Bombs on Plastic Bag Ban
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Photo: Flickr , CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out? In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In car-centric places like Los Angeles, it’s a huge advantage. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill (SB 535) into law that extends HOV-lane access to 40,000 qualifying plug-in hybrid … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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California To Extend Carpool-Lane Access To 40,000 Plug-In Hybrids
photo: Martin Abegglen via flickr All the regulatory paper shuffling required to get the 240 MW Cape Wind project started is finally coming to an end. As Renewable Energy World reports, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the state can give the project a “composite certificate” superseding local regulatory agencies, some of which do not look favorably on the wind f… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Court Ruling Means Cape Wind Has All Permits Allowing Construction to Begin
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photo: Pete Birkinshaw via flickr Now that we’ve got some distance from the ‘biofuels are going to save us, oh wait they’re going to kill everything else’ hysteria of a couple years back and some sane skepticism has emerged, how well are we doing? As the BBC reports, in the UK at least it’s a mix bag: Volume targets are being met, but some fuel suppliers are falling “well short” of their own green standards…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biofuels Falling Well Short of Green Standards in UK
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