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How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)

Photo via CMAFDA At what may have been the most interesting session at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative — a discussion with leaders from big business and nonprofit orgs on how to find market solutions for protecting the environment — Dr. Sanjayan, the lead scientist of the Nature Conservancy, discussed his agency’s promising large-scale project to turn combating water crises around the world with market-based ‘water protection’ plans. The video after the jump explains: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century

photo: Alan Strakey via flickr A new paper in the journal Nature explains what happened during the mid-twentieth century to halt the ever-increasing global temperature rise that continues to this day. Rather than warming in the Northern Hemisphere being stopped by a greater build-up of air pollution as had been supposed, the researchers say an unexpectedly a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Early Findings Show a Radically Changed Arctic

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Early Findings Show a Radically Changed Arctic

Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Simon Boxall, a lecturer in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre, as part of the Cape Farewell project . The science on this year’s Cape Farewell has been split into two (linked) sections. We want to build on previous visits to Svalbard (2003,04 and 07) by repeating a cross section through the West Spitsbergen current (part of the extension of the Gulf Stream) and measuring the East Spitsbergen current for the first time (the other half of that e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Last Pure Air Particles on Earth Captured for Climate Science

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via MyFavoritePetSitter In order to know what the emissions and pollution created since the industrial revolution have really done to our air quality, researchers need to know what the air was like before we discovered our affinity for factories. To do that, they have to scout out the last places on earth where the air has stayed unaffected by everything we’ve pumped into it. It sounds like an impossible task, but researchers have found a spot above the Amazon Basin of Manaus that seems to fit the bill. They’v… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Can’t Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Uncyclopedia Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative , billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres , essentially the world’s top international climate negotiator, to discuss policy and business solutions for global warming. Figuere… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Podcars Almost Ready To Roll in London

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

image via ultraprt I have to be very careful when writing about Pod Cars; the pod people are dedicated and vocal and once gave me a prize for writing fishwrap . I have previously called them a solution in search of a problem, but Jim Witkin at the New York Times thinks that they might make se… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bicycle – The Freedom Machine

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of us. It punctuates that time in our lives when we were enveloped by a sense of unbridled freedom. We were no longer dependent on our parents to shuttle us around the place. We weren’t constrained by bus or train timetables. We could… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Palm Oil Plantations on Peat Soil No Longer Qualify for Clean Development Mechanism Carbon Credits

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Palm oil plantation and processing plant, photo: Marufish via flickr Good that this loophole’s been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils –those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture are the perfect… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Wine In Old Bottles: The Greenest Way To Drink

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via Inhabitat Whenever there is a discussion about wine packaging, TreeHugger comes down on the side of local and refillable. We return often to TreeHugger Emeritus Ruben Anderson’s article in the Tyee: New Wine in Old Bottles , where he notes that in France, wine bottles are refilled an average of eight times. Now they even have computerized wine dispensers where you can fill your own jugs with vin de table for about two bucks a litre…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Americans Reject Frankenfish

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit jlastras via flickr. If you’ve been following AquaBounty ‘s attempt to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon (the salmon has extra genes from Chinook salmon and an eel-like species called the ocean pout to make it grow much faster than normal) you might already know that FDA has given preliminary approval and is weighing final approval in two day of hearings. What you might not know is that a strong majority of Americans surveyed by the environmen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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