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TAKE ACTION: Join With 350.org And Ask Obama to "Put Solar On It"

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via 350.org By now, most people have heard this story. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House, but when the Reagan Revolution swept into power a few years later, Reagan famously had the panels taken down. Well, it’s a new day, and it’s high time for those panels to go back up. Solar power in the U.S. is rapidly growing, with 91 MW coming on line la… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages (Video Slideshow)

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Image via babs886.files.wordpress.com While some of your favorite childhood cartoons came with a pretty obvious green message — “Captain Planet,” anyone? — other animations go for a more subtle impact. From the animal testing in “The Secret of NIMH” and the vegetarian undertones in “Charlotte’s Web” to “The Simpsons'” environmentalism, here are 11 fantastic animated features sending surprisingly green messages to kids (and adults).

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From Anti-Runway Campaign To Community Sustainability (Video)

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Image credit: Transition Culture It’s so much easier to be against something than for something. In fact, I’d argue that is one of the central strategic challenges facing sustainability activists . How do we convert opposition against something—say, nasty oil spills for example—into advocacy for the alternatives&md… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Shelf Becomes The Box With System 1530

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Sabine at Mocoloco shows an interesting bookcase system designed by Daniel Gafner of Postfossil . It is essentially made of plywood boxes held together by standard binder clips, which is clever enough. But when looked at in the framework of a more mobile flexible lifestyle, they become more interesting; the bookshelves can actually become a durable box in which you can move the contents. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More Frequent Extreme Heatwaves Commonplace Across the US by 2040

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image: Noah Diffenbaugh/Stanford Univ. Just as one extreme snowstorm in winter not meaning the world isn’t continuing to warm, one summer heatwave doesn’t prove it. That said, the trend is definitely towards more extreme heatwaves , as new research from Stanford University confirms. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , the scientists say that exceptionally long heatwav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Predators’ Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know

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Before heading to a new planet, we hunted down these fun facts. By Eric Ditzian Topher Grace and Alice Braga in “Predators” Photo: 20th Century Fox How on Earth — or in the alien skies above — do you go from the badassery of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring “Predator” to the vapid, nearly franchise-destroying schlock that was 2007’s “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem”? Don’t look for answers here. Not now, at least, because we’re here to celebrate a resurrection, as director Nimr

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Pharrell Likens His Scooter To A Rolls-Royce, On ‘When I Was 17’

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BREAKING: RAN Invades EPA To Protest Mountaintop Removal

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via RAN Activists with the Rainforest Action Network are at EPA headquarters blaring John Denver’s “Take me Home, Country Roads” and locking themselves to each other to protest the devastating practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. The EPA has given the green light for a major new mountaintop removal coal mining permit in Logan County, West Virginia, that will destroy three miles of currently clean streams and 760 acres of forest. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Climategate is Dead (Video)

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Nissan Claims In-House Hybrid Tech 2-3x Better Than Toyota’s

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Photo: Wikipedia , Public domain. Nissan LEAF R&D Side Benefits? So far, Nissan has been licensing Toyota technology for its Altima hybrid. But that’s about to change for the next generation of Nissan and Infiniti hybrids, and it’s no big surprise considering how much R&D money Nissan has been spending on the LEAF electric car (a lot of what it learned can be used in hybrids). The first car to benefit from Nissan’s new hybrid drivetrain will be the Infiniti M sedan (coming late 2010), and the co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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