Photo: Suntech Power Suntech Plans to Make 2.4 GIGAWATTS of Panels in 2011 Not all news out of China today is bad . The Middle Kingdom’s largest solar panel maker, Suntech Power Holdings , has come out with its sales projections for 2011 and they forecast a healthy solar power market (though not quite as ebullient a a few years ago). … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China’s Largest Solar Panel Maker Expect Sales to Climb 20% in 2011
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Image credit Tjeerd Veenhoven , via Gizmag One of the few complaints about the iPhone is the short battery life. Most people need to charge their phones on a nearly daily basis. The possibility for a low battery while away from a power outlet is pretty good, so off-grid charger concepts have come up often over the last few years. Most revolve around solar power, but the new iFan concept from Tjeerd Veenhoven utilizes the power of a good strong breeze. However, is it at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPhone Skin is Really a Wind-Powered Charger
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image credit wikivisual TreeHugger has published a lot of posts about absorption refrigerators; they are common in off-grid situations and because they run on heat, they are possibly key to the holy grail of solar powered air conditioning . Jennifer Ouellette explains on io9 that Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard developed and patented an absorp… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Einstein Invented A Fridge That Runs On Heat, Had No Moving Parts
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Around the world, tarantulas are kept as pets but many popular species are endangered in the wild. Photo credit: christopher.woo / Creative Commons ” Operation Spiderman “—which had nothing to do with the fictional crime-fighting web-slinger—came to an end this weekend with the arrest of Sven Koppler, a German man thought to be responsible for the smuggling of thousands of endangered spiders. Authorities began tracking Koppler after intercepting a package concealing 3… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Spider Smuggler Snared in Sting Operation
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Image credit: Daly3d , used under Creative Commons license. Richard Branson has long argued that business must step up and tackle both climate change and peak oil as a matter of urgency. From proposing waste-based biofuels in aviation, and even towing planes to the runway , through to setting up a carbon war room a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ships Get Energy Ratings Thanks to Richard Branson
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Image credit: Permaculture Science Whether learning that I am only 10% human, 90% bacteria , or musing on the concept of composting as animal husbandry , my life has taken a decidedly microbial turn of late. And not without good reason. As the video below argues in no uncertain terms, we owe our very existence to the tiniest of beings around. You’ll be astounded at quite how many there are under your feet—… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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40 Tons of Life in One Acre of Soil: Geoff Lawton on the Magic of Soil (Video)
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In 2000, at the United Nations’ Millennium Summit a set of development goals were created with an aim to improve some of the most critical social, economic, and environmental issues in the developing world by 2015. The eight goals are: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 4: Reduce child mortality rate Goal 5: Improve maternal health Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development At yesterday’s meeting of the United Nations… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What is the Role of ICT in Sustainable Development?
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Photo: Mahalie Being a parent is tough. Even if you’re vigilant, feeding finicky kids can be nearly impossible. Even if you serve local, organic, whole foods at home, one birthday party with green icing and your kids scream for more of this addictive drug. Except a new study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine says that what a woman eats during … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Study: A Local Whole Foods Diet is Like Mother Like Child
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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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Image courtesy of Griffon The French furniture company Griffon was established in 1848 and spent the next century making conventional products for churches and private homes. But in the 1960s, Griffon turned to creating furniture for an increasingly urban population, as the French moved out of the countryside into cities, and into smaller homes. Today, the company is still doing it, and offers an impressive catalog of folding beds, from the simple to the majestic. Folding a bed into your furniture never looked so good…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Folding Beds from Griffon Make Reclaimed Space Look Good
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