Screengrab from YouTube video What if we were to geoengineer a ring around the sun, specifically for human habitation? What would that look like? Artist Simon Terrey decided to visualize it for us. Check out the video animation of planet Earth as a ring around the sun. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Beautiful View of a Ringworld, the Ultimate in Geoengineering (Video)
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Image courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Laboratory When the eastern gray squirrel was introduced to the UK during the 19th and 20th centuries, it quickly found a niche—outpacing the smaller, weaker, and generally less fit native red squirrel throughout England. Since then, conservationists have struggled to preserve the waning populations of red squirrel and the eastern gray has become a symbol of the dangers of invasive speci… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Killer Shrimp Invades the UK
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, as part of the Cape Farewell project . “I had started on a voyage of discovery, only to find that it was I who was being discovered.” – Tété-Michel Kpomassie in An African In Greenland The Arctic Circle begins at roughly 66
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I arrived home from my cottage last week to find a rather large number of eggplant ready for harvest.I was quite happy with the harvest we had throughout August, and I thought we were more or less done with them. I was a bit surprised to find 5 or 6 ready to eat with another 4 or 5 at a smaller stage and a number of flowers. I imagine that the frost will hit before those flowers come to fruition, but maybe I’ll be lucky and get some more eggplant in October. But for now, I’m thinking about all the ways I can enjoy what I have…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Little Advance Planning to Make an Eggplant Torta
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Photo via the Tehran Times A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience suggests that the estimates for the rate of ice loss in Greenland and West Antarctica from global climate change should be significantly reduced — by as much as half. The study posits that current ice loss estimates fail to take into account a process called glacial isostatic adjustment, which involves the rebounding movement of the Earth’s crust after the last ice age. Here’s what’s happening, according… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rate of Ice Cap Loss May be Slower than Feared: New Study
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Image: A123 Systems A Shiny New 291,000-Square-Foot Factory A123 Systems, the makers of advanced lithium-ion batteries, have just opened a new battery factory in Livonia, Michigan. They claim that “based on available data” it is the largest battery plant in North-America (some manufacturer might be keeping their capacity secret). This new facility should increase A123’s manufacturing capabilities by “up to 600MW hours per year when fully operational, contributing to the company’s plan to expand global final cell assembly capacity to more than 760MW hours annually by the end of 2011. ” That’s a lot of… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A123 Systems Opens North-America’s Largest Lithium-Ion Battery Plant (600MWh/Year)
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Today on Planet 100: Ryan Air CEO Lets Fly on Climate Change (Video)
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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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Lisbon Store Interior Built From Cardboard
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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10,000+ Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska As Arctic Ice Melts
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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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Flying Cars Just Around the Corner for Eighty Years
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