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Revenge of the Electric Car (Official Trailer!)

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Revenge of the Electric Car (Official Trailer!)

Coming in the Spring of 2011 As promised , now that the Revenge of the Electric Car facebook fan page has reach… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Paul Nichols Uses Technology and Daring to Catch Animals in His Camera Trap

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The Week in Pictures: Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People by 2020, Solar-Powered Hornets, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Week in Pictures: Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People by 2020, Solar-Powered Hornets, and More (Slideshow)

Last week, a boat in the Amazon spilled around 210,000 gallons of popcorn into a major river, making the surface of the water look a bit like the floor of a movie theater. Find out how oil workers came to the rescue, below, and read on for more stories from the world of green, including photos of the beautiful Miluira Retro Electric Roadster from Japan, an exclusive peak inside Michelle Kaufmann ‘s Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the story of a woman who has used the same Christmas tree every year since 1928, and more on those solar-powered hornets. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

There are gads of programs, downloads, and even fonts that help you conserve paper when you print. And there are those little taglines on emails that encourage readers to think before printing. However, there is one new strategy from WWF that really gets people to stop printing. They’ve created a software program that allows you to save a document as a file that literally cannot be printed out. Talk about cutting off the problem at the source! … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

There are gads of programs, downloads, and even fonts that help you conserve paper when you print. And there are those little taglines on emails that encourage readers to think before printing. However, there is one new strategy from WWF that really gets people to stop printing. They’ve created a software program that allows you to save a document as a file that literally cannot be printed out. Talk about cutting off the problem at the source! … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Image courtesy of Practical Action Ninety years from now, your London-going grandchildren may be jealous that you didn’t have to strap on a snorkel to visit Big Ben, Parliament, London Bridge, and Canary Wharf. That’s the forecast from Practical Action , the development charity behind the London Underground Map 2100 . Any area in blue is predicted to be underwater by the end of the century…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Dress Up as Pandas to Fool Them (and Us?)

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Scientists Dress Up as Pandas to Fool Them (and Us?)

Photo: the Independent O.k.; which one is the real panda and which is the scientist? It’s a tough one: scientists in China are dressing up as pandas in order to prepare the bears for release into the wild. Pandas are an endangered species, there are just 2,500 left and they can’t get too used to human contact because it will make them too tame. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Beekeepers & Activists Demand EPA Remove Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Beekeepers & Activists Demand EPA Remove Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths

Image credit: wolfpix , used under Creative Commons license. The puzzle of the red bees of Brooklyn may now be solved , but conclusive answers regarding the larger honeybee mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder remain elusive. Nevertheless, in my roundup post about the epic fight to save the bees , I noted that the British Beekeepers … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Congress’s New Science Chairman to Fight "Global Freezing"

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Congress’s New Science Chairman to Fight "Global Freezing"

Photo: Abeeeer , Flickr I present to you the United States of America — the wealthiest, most prosperous nation on the planet. It is a nation whose storied tradition of embracing science — we put the first man on the moon, dammit — that has helped foster its prosperity. Now, this great nation, which has revolutionized information and clean energy technology, to name a few, is on the brink of being run by some of the most sterling scientific minds of our generation. Meet, for instance, the man who will be the Science Chairman in the House of Representatives… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nearly All Dollar Bills are Tainted with BPA: Report

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Nearly All Dollar Bills are Tainted with BPA: Report

Image: Wikimedia A new report, “On the Money: BPA on Dollar Bills and Receipts “, has found that 95% of US dollar bills are contaminated with trace amounts of Bisphenol A. The chemical, which is also found in plastics, aluminum cans, thermal paper receipts, and elsewhere, is a known hormone disruptor , and has been

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