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Prince Charles is Partying and TreeHugger was There

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All Images by B. Alter: the Royal Vegetable Garden Prince Charles is having a great big green party and TreeHugger was there; along with a few thousand others, to be honest. HRH was holding it in the garden of his house, Clarence House and two neighbouring magnificent historic houses. It was a celebration and appreciation of all things green, done on a royal scale. A Garden Party To Make A Difference is part of the Prince’s START initiative to help people across the UK lead more sustainable lives. For 12 days, and the price of a ticket, the hoi polloi can check out the booths and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site–the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN’s message: “EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump On Appalachia.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Global Warming’s Impact on Arctic Ice Explained (Video)

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Rising Powers Earlier today, we looked at the fictional story of a polar bear leaving its threatened home in the Arctic to seek out the source of the problem in human civilization — and yes, that was an advertisement for Nissan’s LEAF electric car. But the phenomena it depicted, ice melting and land mass shrinking in the Arctic, is very real. So good thing then that Peter Sinclair has a brand new video out that details how exa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China Builds Sub That Can Dive a Record 4.35 Miles Underwater (Video)

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Photo via New York Times To aid in hunt for fossil fuels and minerals to mine China has evidently entered the arena of deep sea submersible building, which is hardly surprising considering the nation’s current thrust towards achieving various feats of technological derring-do. According to the New York Times , Chinese researchers have built a sub that can descend to a record 4.35 miles below the surface, and it has already been tested at depths of at least 2… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Twenty-three Governors Call For a Renewable Energy Standard

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photo via flickr A bunch of treehugging greenies sounded off today about the Senate passing a Renewable Energy Standard, which would mandate that a percentage of energy from utilities come from renewable sources. Wait, upon closer inspection, they are actually responsible governors from both parties and a diverse collection states. I guess it’s not just environmentalists who know that it’s sound policy to shift away from dirty energy toward clean sources, now is it?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nissan LEAF Ad Puts Global Warming Front and Center (Video)

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It’s rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that’s exactly what has happened with Nissan’s new TV ad for it’s all-electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age-old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change. Many — including Climate Progress , the Huffington Post , and

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A Crackhead Explains How To Keep Your Bike From Being Stolen

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The Bicycle Thief, caught. A former crackhead tells all in the Guardian about his career as a bicycle thief and what he does to avoid having his own bike stolen. We have noted before that the weight of the bike lock is inversely proportional to the weight of the bike, and Aziz basically concurs, using two thick chains through both wheels and the frame…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Immigration a Green Issue? (Video)

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Image credit: Center for New Community TreeHugger is a blog about environmentalism, not racism, ethnicity or immigration. Yet from holocaust deniers at the Copenhagen climate talks to the sometimes xenophobic undertones of energy independence debate , there are times when these subjects collide. When David posted about a Yale essay that claimed

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India Cancels Third Hydropower Project on Ganges Tributary on Environmental & Religious Concerns

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The Bhagirathi (left) joins with the Alaknanda (right) in Devprayag and is known as the Ganga from this point onwards. Photo: Wikipedia Good news for the River Ganga! India has cancelled a 600 MW hydropower project on the Bhagirathi River, one of the main tributaries that come together to form the sacred river, citing environmental and religious concerns. Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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California Roadkill Database to Make Highways Safer for Animals

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Photo via Seabamirum Mapping out roadkill. It’s an unusual, and yet incredibly important project. We know that roadways are deadly for animals, not just in the direct sense that everything from insects to birds to huge mammals are hit by cars, but also in that roads rip through habitats, dividing hunting territories and migration routes . But exactly how problematic are roads, and for which species? While the Humane Society reports about 1 million anim… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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