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Reuse Community Takes Facebook By Storm – With More to Come

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Reuse Community Takes Facebook By Storm – With More to Come

Image Credit: Reuse Connection Repurposing a stove into a high-powered entertainment system might not be to everyone’s liking, but we still love reuse—warts and all. When I asked how we identify that fine line between reuse and hoarding , the question seemed to resonate with our readers—who clearly are passionate about the idea of reuse. (“Who could have guessed?”, I hear you cry.) Having read t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Family Planning As Important For Fighting Climate Change As Clean Technology: Worldwatch

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photo: Paul Keller / Creative Commons Population growth is one of the touchiest issues out there. It’s really easy for people to leap to paranoia about government control of who can and cannot have children and no amount of qualification about how that’s not being advocated seems to stop it. Nevertheless population growth and its flip side, resource consumption is a critica… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GM to Hire 1,000 Engineers & Researchers to Develop Electric Vehicles

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on GM to Hire 1,000 Engineers & Researchers to Develop Electric Vehicles

Photo: GM If There’s One Thing Michigan Needs, It’s Jobs… While the “green jobs” bonanza that some predicted hasn’t quite happened yet, there are many high quality green jobs that are being created all around the world these days. The latest announcement comes from GM, who starting today will start hiring 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan to “significantly expand its vehicle electrification expertise and lead in the development of electric vehicles from hybrids to electric vehicles with extended-range capability, like the Chevrolet Volt.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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When 9 MPG Can Save 100 Billion Gallons of Fuel

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on When 9 MPG Can Save 100 Billion Gallons of Fuel

Photo: Andrew Atzert , Flickr, CC An objective look at that number — 9 miles per gallon — will cause most environmentalists to recoil. But in this one case, they should be rooting for that fuel efficiency standard to become a reality. The EPA is considering updating the fuel economy standards for semis and heavy trucks. It’s currently at 6 MPG. And raising that number would have a massive impact on polluting emissions and fuel usage…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Breaking: Ban on Offshore Drilling is Back! Sort of.

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Breaking: Ban on Offshore Drilling is Back! Sort of.

Photo: eschipul , Flickr, CC President Obama can’t seem to make up his mind about banning offshore drilling — does he want a drilling moratorium in place or not? Now, it once again looks like he does — sort of, anyway. The White House is announcing today that the administration plans on maintaining most of the initial ban. Certain waters will be kept off limits, though some will still be opened for drilling. Here’s where we stand now…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Some U.S. Utilities Starting to Replace Coal with Natural Gas

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Photo: Wikipedia , CC A Lesser Evil? It’s time for a round of “good news, bad news”. The good news is that some U.S. utilities with aging coal plants are looking at the costs of installing anti-pollution equipment on them and at the future cost of carbon regulations (the details are uncertain right now, but at some point it’s going to happen), and they’re deciding it makes sense to them shut down instead of sinking more cash into this dirty source of power. The bad news is that they aren’t exactly replacing them with wind, solar, geother… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Worldwide, Fossil Fuels Get 12 Times the Subsidies as Clean Energy

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Worldwide, Fossil Fuels Get 12 Times the Subsidies as Clean Energy

Photo: BLM , Creative Commons A consensus seems to be growing that since comprehensive energy reform is now a long ways off in the US, the least we can do is get rid of subsidies and handouts for fossil fuel companies. And this new report from the USC Marshall School of Business illustrates why: Worldwide, fossil fuels receive a staggering 12 times the amount in subsidies that clean energy does…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

Photo credit: Collin Dunn When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think : Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you’ve been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a few of the islands are home to the Galapagos Penguin. If you haven’t been here (or studied the islands, or just know a lot about it), you may be thinking one thing: What the heck are penguins doing on the equator?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Volt, Schmolt; Get a Bike Instead

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Daily Dish An interesting thread of posts on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish includes a great quote from … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Composting As Animal Husbandry – Moving Way Beyond Recycling

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Composting As Animal Husbandry – Moving Way Beyond Recycling

Image credit: Sami Grover I was observing the heat rising from my compost heap this morning, the one inspired by my review of Gene Logsdon’s guide to managing manure , when I was struck by a particular insight—what I was actually witnessing was the cumulative body heat of billions upon billions of tiny little beasties. To anyone familiar with the composting process, that observation is pretty elementary. But it got me wondering—maybe we should stop thinking about composting as simply “recycling”, “waste … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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