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Lessons From The UK Heat Pump Study: Insulate First And Know What You Are Getting

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

number of heat pumps vs coefficient of performance from Energy Saving Trust Sami recently wrote 80% of UK Heat Pumps Performing Badly and suggested that “Lloyd will no doubt be feeling more than a little validated by this study.” Indeed; I will never understand why people will shell out tens of thousands of dollars on heat pumps, new windows and solar panels before they will insulate or caulk. But the study makes some good recommendations about how to get the most bang for your buck when you buy a heat pump and how to ensure that it is done right…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sign-O-Bike: Loud And Bright Turn Signals For Riding At Night

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Cycling safety advocates often suggest dressing up in loud and garish glow-in-the-dark industrial vests so that one can be seen more easily; it isn’t exactly Copenhagen Cycle Chic but we can’t all live in Copenhagen. Now Cycleicious shows us what might be an effective compromise: the Sign-O-Bike. It’s a reflective belt that has built in electroluminescent turn signals…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lisbon Store Interior Built From Cardboard

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Fabrizio Gallanti of Abitare , the wonderful Italian design magazine, sends us LOW, a store and bar in Lisbon designed by Pedro Campos Costa and built entirely out of cardboard. The products sold are all made from at least 50% recycled materials, so it is logical that the designer built the store completely out of cardboard. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Video)

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Image credit: StudioJOHO The BP oil spill was a classic example of how corporate greed can undermine sustainability. Nevertheless, it’s hard to ignore the fact that many of the solutions proposed here on TreeHugger—from smart grids to electric cars —will need al… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10,000+ Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska As Arctic Ice Melts

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photo: Heather Thorkelson via flickr In an event that the US Geological Survey is saying is “directly related to the lack of sea ice” in the Chukchi Sea , tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska. The

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China to Have 200+ Million Cars by 2020!

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Photo: Flickr , CC Serious Environmental Issues Foreseen

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Nissan LEAF Ad Puts Global Warming Front and Center (Video)

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It’s rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that’s exactly what has happened with Nissan’s new TV ad for it’s all-electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age-old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change. Many — including Climate Progress , the Huffington Post , and

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Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills

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photo: John Norton via flickr A perfect example of how the cost of electricity from fossil fuels isn’t fully represented by the price on our bill: A new report from the Clean Air Task Force shows that in the United States particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, not to mention about 9,700 additional hospitalizations and some 20,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Humans Get Better, Planet Gets Worse: It’s the Environmentalist’s Paradox

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Photo via Research4Development A recent paper in the September issue of BioScience took on the so-called ‘Environmentalist’s Paradox’. That paradox poses a question along these lines: Why is it that human well-being has increased over the years, while the planet’s resources have been severely degraded — and how is that trajectory continuing today despite increasing damage to key ecosystem services? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Flying Cars Just Around the Corner for Eighty Years

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When Daniel covered the Terrafugia, he wrote “the rest of us here now on a heating planet could use more efficient cars and airplanes, not wacky combos of the two built for the super rich.” It is interesting that nothing has changed in 80 years since this vehicle, shown in Modern Mechanix, was proposed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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