Mercury News Apple has been assembling land in Cupertino for a while, and just acquired a bit Hewlett Packard property two miles away from its current base. Now a Spanish newspaper breaks the news that Norman Foster, architect of Masdar, has been hired to des… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Norman Foster To Design Apple City In Cupertino
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Photo: Smock Paper No matter how green your gifts are, wrapping them up in disposable paper leaves you with a lot of unnecessary waste that puts an environmental damper on the joy of the holidays. Choose these bright patterns, bold prints, and seasonal designs from recycled materials, organic cotton and more for a pile of pretty presents (almost too gorgeous to open) that won’t add to
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10 Gorgeous Green Alternatives to Holiday Wrapping Paper (Slideshow)
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Image credit: Fully Charged From checking out the Nemesis electric car , to exploring fast electric car charging , Robert Llewellyn has been an enthusiastic and outspoken advocate for electric cars. So when Rory Reid of cnet uk thoroughly trashed EVs, Robert invited him to have it out with him in person. This was the result…… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Do Electric Cars Still Suck? Fully Charged vs Cnet UK (Video)
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Photo of the Year Reminds COP16 That People Are Waiting for Climate Change Solutions
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Photo: Ben+Sam Not a moment too soon the House passed The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act just two days ago after it passed the Senate in August. This is long overdo as far as I’m concerned and just before the holiday season, it puts school nutrition and our kids on the front burner again. That’s not to say that disconcerting compromises didn’t make for a less than perfect bill, but getting
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The House Finally Passes The Child Nutrition Act
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Photo: Jendarling Bags We’ve covered Jendarling’s organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection , comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Chic Travel Accessories by Jendarling Offer Alternative to Plastic Garment Bags
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photo: Rupert Taylor-Price / Creative Commons Is there no place on the planet where human-caused pollution has not reached? Scientists have discovered that both the snow and soil on Mount Everest now contains dangerous levels of arsenic and cadmium, most brought to the roof of the world thanks to the
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Heavy Metals Now Dangerously Contaminate Snow & Soil Atop Mount Everest
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Photo: Jeda Villa Bali , Flickr, CC That’s the finding of a newly released report , put together by a trade group of over 20 associations around the world, that tracks the development of solar power around the world. According to the findings, by 2020, the world could easily enjoy 1,000 Gigawatts of solar power — if the proper incentives and support is given by world governments. You might also be surprised for the sunny future projected for US solar: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Global Solar Energy Could Hit 980 GW in Under 10 Years
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Huge Issue With Small Resources The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology has released a report that is critical of the U.S. for not investing enough into energy R&D, recommending that spending more than triple from $5 billion to $16 billion (not that much when you compare it to the cost of other big expenditures). The U.S. lags many other country in energy R&D investments (see the chart below), and considering how much it spends on fossil fuels, any investments that reduce that consumption w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama
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Image credit: Gita Nandan, Tim ONeal of BoroughBees.com, via NRDC. Used with permission. Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red , and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that the urban bees (the bee ban of New York having now been lifted) were hitting the corn syrup at the local Maraschino Cherry factory in record numbers. Now the
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The Red Bees of Brooklyn, and a Search for a Solution
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