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Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon "Slow Jam" BP Oil Spill News, Dave Matthews Speaks Up Against Mountaintop Removal, and More (Video)
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Photo via charles westerby. While the environmental impact from fuels like gas and coal are well-known, Japan has now set its sights on folks who burn the midnight oil. In hopes of reducing the nation’s carbon… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Japanese Gov’t Urges the Extinction of Night Owls
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Street artist Philip Lumbang’s “New Life” on found charred metal. Photos: R.Cruger With the latest fires raging in Arizona and Brazil , I’m reminded of last year’s notorious Station Fire, the largest to ever hit Los Angeles County, destroying more than 250-acres of Angeles National Forest in August 2009, confounding firefighters with the ferocity of its reach. Ash covered my yard, particulates filled the air and a reddish haze hovered. Massive flames in the hillside were viewable within walking distance. While I holed up with t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Artwork from Fires Restores Wilderness Park
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Image credit: Good Washers and driers are fast, easy, and convenient—but they tend to use a lot energy and water. Levi Srauss & Co., it turns out, has noticed. According to a study they commissioned , “60 percent of the climate impact comes during the consumer phase.” Now, they are asking for help to design a better way to dry clothes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Help Design a Better Clothes Line
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Images via Vac from the Sea project Electrolux is known for pushing the envelope on design, including sustainable design. And their latest project has our full attention. Pointing out that there isn’t enough recycled plastic on land to supply demand, Electrolux is backing a project that would pull plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and recycle it into appliances like vacuum cleaners. The project would simultaneously create (… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video)
Add another to our endless series of things that make you fat, many of which have to do with planning and design. The Harvard Business Review reports on a new study by Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia, that analyzed conditions in King County, Washington; he found that residents in neighbourhoods with grids and interconnected streets travelled 26% fewer miles by car than did those who lived in the neighbourhood of cul-de-sacs. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cul-De-Sacs Make You Fat
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Photo via the DCist Yet another poll has rolled in, revealing in clear terms — and by wide margins — that US citizens want comprehensive clean energy reform. Even if they have to pay more in energy costs . The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll , conducted by McCain pollster Bill McInturff (R), along with Peter Hart (D), found that by a stunning 2 to 1 margin, Americans want good, comprehensive energy reform that reduces carbon emissions and stimulates clean energy development. Here’s the breakdown:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Listen Up Senate: Majority of Americans Want Clean Energy Reform
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Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It’s passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the roof. Given the importance of wood in Finnish design and architecture, they are highlighting it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon Wins First Prize For Architecture
photo: Business Wire A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source , there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them. It’s there that Alaska Power & Telephone has installed a new hydroki… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hydropower Without Dams: Alaskan Village Powered Entirely by New Hydrokinetic River Turbine
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Image via FTC Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs and other lighting technology more comparable among consumers. Well word has just hit that the new system has been approved and we’ll soon see … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Year
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