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Solar-Powered Toothbrush Needs No Toothpaste

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image of toothbrush via ingridtaylor ; image of solar powered brush via Canada.com It’s one thing to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power. It’s another thing altogether to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power and eliminates the need for you to ever buy toothpaste again. Sound too good to be true? It might be. Though Shiken company of Japan believes otherwise now that they’ve created a tooth… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: WasteZero Some places have looked at paying people to recycle , but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a “pay-as-you-throw” scheme for trash , our readers were broadly supportive of the idea. However, the UK Conservative Party (which is … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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OPEC Needs Low Oil Prices Because it Keeps Alternative Energy Down

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Low Enough to Keep Competition Away The Atlantic has a good piece about OPEC, everybody’s least-favorite cartel. It shows pretty clearly why OPEC is probably the most effective enemy of renewable energy. The way they do it is by going against their short-term interests and keeping oil prices relatively low (at least low compared to the kind of prices they could create if they choked off supply more) to assure their long-term market-share and keep alternatives to oil down…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vedanta’s Controversial Bauxite Mine Violates Tribal People’s Rights: Indian Govt Report

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Swap Your Shop: Like House Swapping With Your Desk Thrown In

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

TreeHugger has noted before that swapping is good for your budget and for the environment . House-swapping and home exchanges are not new; one company facilitating swaps has been doing it since 1953. It was developed as a way of getting low-cost vacation accommodations, but who takes long vacations anymore? Everybody is too busy working. But the problem of the quick, short vacation is the carbon footprint of the travel, the inability to settle in and get to know a place and its people, and the high cost per day. That’s why

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At Least 20% of Pakistan is Underwater (Video)

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Weather.com After weeks of persistent flooding, the UN now estimates that at least a full one-fifth of Pakistan — a nation of 170 million people — is underwater. And the New York Times reports that estimate is probably lowballing the full extent of the damage. 1,600 people are believed to have been killed, and 14 million have been either forced out of their homes or been impacted in some way. The tragedy has gotten so out of h… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Incredible Images of Pilot Whales in the Strait of Gibraltar

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Marine biologist Rory Moore and his team, including photographer Danny Kessler, came across pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean and managed to take some extraordinary photographs of the curious animals. Pilot whales rarely come into contact with humans thanks to strict diving regulations, so the images are an extra special treat. While they appear to be playful, graceful and comedic, the toothed pilot whales can also become aggressive and deadly, which makes the photos all the more intriguing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tell NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg You Want a Vegetable Garden at City Hall!

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Amy Seek of Flatbush Farmshare’s conception of what a vegetable garden outside City Hall might look like. Image via People’s Garden NYC . If the White House has one, and the city halls of Baltimore, Portland, and San Francisco have (or had…) them, why not New York City? I’m talking about planting vegetable gardens right out front. That’s what the people behind People’s Garden NYC are pushing for, creating a petition urging Ma… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Fined a Record $50 Million for Texas Refinery Explosion

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Photo via SymonSez To all those who’ve voiced concern that the federal government is just being too hard on poor ol’ BP (here’s looking at you Rep. Barton), perhaps you should take note of the following: There’s a reason that BP needs to be held accountable for considerable damage its caused. It’s called gross negligence, and not just in beginning a deep-water drilling operation it had no contingency plan for — but also in cases like that its Texas oil refinery, where safety protocol was treated like a joke, and subsequently, a 2005 explosion left 15… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Michigan Solar Panel Factory’s Labor-Intensive Assembly Tasks Moved To Mexico

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

ECD, 5.6 kw UNI-SOLAR® product installation example in Heilbrunn Germany. Image credit:ECD UNI-SOLAR® products web page . Energy Conversion Devices of Auburn Hills MI recently received a $13 million stimulus tax credit to upgrade operations to produce a new, more efficient line of solar cells. The focus would be on mechanical and chemical engineering innovations, I assume. That government supported plan is still on course, apparently, although on a delayed schedule. That’s the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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