Image credit: Fully Charged Robert Llewellyn has been busy once again. Having road tested of the BMW Mini-E , explored fast electric car charging , and reviewed the Nissan Leaf , the cult British TV presenter and comedy actor has also been trying out some more unusual EV’s. From a fully electric Range Rover SUV, through… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Electric Sports Cars, SUVs and Mini-Vans in Fully Charged Round-up (Video)
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Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The University of Notre Dame is taking the use of e-readers in classrooms seriously, embarking on a one year study of how the devices integrate into classrooms. The first course to have students use an iPad instead of any text books is Project Management, a class with 40 students that will not only use the iPad as a book, but will also be encouraged to use it for everything else in daily life and report back their impressions (hmmm, could that possibly have been at Apple’s request?). Apple is making a big push to turn iPads into the next big thin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Notre Dame Begins Test Run of iPads With a Paperless Course
map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn’t much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP’s Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Canadian Tar Sands Industry & Government Maintains Higher Water Toxicity Near Projects is Natural
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Image via Stanford University Fresh, clean, drinkable water is an increasingly rare thing on this planet, especially in places that are suffering through catastrophes like floods or must deal with high levels of pollution without the resources to set up water treatment facilities. But a project from Stanford University researchers could see cheap, simple filtration devices distributed through developing nations. How simple? Well, it’s just a piece of cotton cloth coated in nanotubes that filter out nearly all bacteria at a rat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cotton Cloth Coated in Nanotubes Electrifies Bacteria to Purify Water
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Images via Tina Sparkles Electronic clothing is something that continually fascinates some designers. From circuit board boxers to keyboard purses to blinking bicycling sweaters , there’s just something about turning electronics into fashion. But Tina Sparkles does it w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Computer Wire Dress by Tina Sparkles Makes Statement About e-Waste
All Images by B. Alter: Jrumchai Singalavanij With ecological and sustainable fashion growing more popular, it’s important that students be interested and involved in this area: they are the future. In which case we are in luck: at this year’s Royal College of Art Summer Graduate show there are some fascinating new designers on their way up. Jrumchai Singalavanij is committed; she makes all of her creations out of recycled bits from the textile industry and transforms them so that they can be woven. Her pieces are fa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Textiles and Eco-Clothing at the Royal College of Art Summer Show
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photo: ((brian)) via flickr Unless you’ve just started following environmental issues you’re probably aware that biodiversity is declining so much that the planet is seeing species go extinct at a rate a thousand times historical rates of extinction–and that we’re collectively not do a very good job preventing human activity from accelerating that. Is part of the problem is the way we discuss biodiversity? It’s a more complex (and more i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: GM A Significant Drop Predicted It’s all about supply and demand: According to Hideo Takeshita, an analyst at the Institute of Information Technology Ltd. in Tokyo, the price of lithium-ion batteries could drop by about 19% in 2010, while another analyst, Shiro Mikoshiba of Nomura Holdings, said that the worsening oversupply may push prices down as much as 25%. While it’s always important to take market predictions with a grain of salt, if lithium-ion battery prices drop by anywhere near 1/5th, it’s going to have a positive impact on the
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Image via Ecorazzi Brazil has received a whole lot of negativity regarding the Belo Monte dam. The $17 billion complex would divert nearly all of the flow of the Xingu River, a massive river known for its biodiversity, to generate hydroelectric power. A new video narrated by Sigourney Weaver illustrates through a 3D tour using Google Earth video the catastrophic social a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sigourney Weaver Deconstructs Disasterous Belo Monte Dam in ‘Defending the Rivers of the Amazon’ (Video)
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Image credit: The Journey TV From this awesome tour of a permaculture allotment , to residents battling to keep their gardens , Britain’s ‘allotment’ culture has featured regularly on TreeHugger. And not without good reason. These small plots of land, rented from local government for an affordable fee, are visible in almost every town and city across the country,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Britain’s Allotment Culture: When Residents Demand Land, They Get It (Video)
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