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Today on Planet 100: Vuvuzelas Assault BP (Video)
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the good: 1 Bryant Park. Image: Viridian Realty For decades, modern office buildings have been pretty much covered in glass curtain walls. Some are high performance and very expensive, like the super-green LEED Platinum Bank of America Building at 1 Bryant Park in New York, or they can be the standard crappy suburban office building thrown up across North America, looking the same in California or Calgary. But as Steve Mouzon points out , even the very best glazing has an R-value that is equiv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can an All-Glass Office Building Really Be Considered Green?
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photo: Patrick Barry via flickr Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products. This time it’s the Sinar Mas group and their subsidiary Asian Pulp & Paper clearing forest and Walmart, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, and other well-known consumer names that are he… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Walmart, KFC, Burger King Paper Purchases Destroying Indonesia’s Rainforests: Greenpeace
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Image via Gizmodo Getting from home to the bus stop or from the train station to the office can mean needing an extra set of wheels like a bike, making driving a car continue to be a more appealing option than taking public transit. But a new concept called Tredways hopes to make crossing the too-short-to-drive-too-far-to-walk distance from point A to point B faster and easier by turning your shoes into a motorized set of wheels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Motorized Shoe Concept Gives Public Transit a Leg Up Over Cars (Video)
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Photo by coolmikeol It feels like reading a tabloid headline when we see reports about irreversible damage to ocean systems and the worldwide mass extinctions that could result. Unfortunately, it’s an all too real possibility. Renowned marine scientists Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute, and Dr John F. Bruno, an Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina, have completed a comprehensive study pulling together information from the most recent oceanographic research. Their … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Irreversible Changes in Oceans Leading to Global Mass Extinction
Credit: Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book / courtesy TreeLink . Why should you plant trees? For shade and oxygen? Right, but there’s tons of other things (like the tons of sequestered carbon) to keep in mind. And if these factoids to follow aren’t convincing enough, how about the chance to win an Apple iPad, along with a selection from the Warner Music Group?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Plant a Tree With Linkin Park and Green Music Challenge, and You Could Win an an iPad
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Industrial designer Nitipak Samsen is concerned that “Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism.” He has developed a sort of mini-carbon offsetting device he calls a A.T.R.E.E.M. ((Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine), which measures the growth of the tree and the rate of carbon dioxide absorption. You enter your activity (a flight, an electric bill), swipe your card and it measures the growth of the tree that would represent the carbon offset. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Instant Offsets: Measuring Device Calculates Carbon Dioxide Absorption
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Logo: Bike For All Photo: Sgillies on Flickr Almost a year ago we asked the question, When Should Tykes Be On Bikes? . Now in the UK the question is being asked, When Should Kids be Allowed to Ride to School — Alone? For one London couple, Oliver and Gillian Schönrock, they decided it was OK for their eight year daughter and five year son to ride the 1.2km (0.75 miles) to their school along th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kids Cycle To School and Parents Risk Being Reported to Social Services
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photo via flickr California utilities must get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2010 and 33 percent by 2020. The 2020 target looms large and utilities are trying to line up contracts with suppliers of renewable energy and set up their own projects. Pacific Gas and Electric had a deal with a Portuguese company for 106.8 megawatts of power from a solar and biomass plant, but local opposition and cost have shelved the plant. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Road To A Renewable Energy Economy Is Bumpy In California
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Be Independent From Bottled Water This Summer With NYC’s Water-On-The-Go
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