Photo: The Godfather Cosa Nostra Goes Green It seems like the mob has discovered that there’s money to be made with wind power in Italy. The mafia is up to its usual tricks: fraud, extortion, bribery, money laundering, etc. Police wiretaps even caught an alleged mafioso telling his wife: “Not one turbine blade will be built in Mazara unless I agree to it.” Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power
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“The Scott Naturals brand Smart Flush bag offers a safe and easy way to save water at home.” Caption & image credit: PR Newswire Kimberly Clark is promoting their ‘green’ TP line with a plastic bag-based remake of the old toilet tank brick trick. (Try saying that 4 times as fast as you can.) Advertising Age reports that KC, owner of the Scott Naturals brand, plans to give away “750,000 Scott SmartFlush toilet-tank inserts, which the brand claims can save a typical family 2,000 g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kimberly Clark Gives Away Plastic Toilet Tank Inserts As Product Promotion
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Photo: Say goodbye to San Rafael Falls, Ecuador? (via listafterlist.com ) Ecuador made waves not too long ago as the first country to not only recognize the constitutional rights of ecosystems , but also for demanding money in exchange to not drill into their rich oil reserves — located under their equally-rich rainforests. Now,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ecuador’s Highest Waterfall Threatened By Chinese-Financed Dam
Image: Wikipedia , CC This Document Was Not for Public Consumption A leaked study by the German military reveals that the Bundeswehr is taking the possibility of peak oil (the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, leading to a gradual decline) very seriously. The authors of the study, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Will, forecast a “shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency, of a decline in importance of the western industrial nations, of… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The German Military is Freaked Out by Prospect of Peak Oil
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Photo via Eggs&Beer Mountain pine beetles have been a problem for many years , especially the last decade. Warming temperatures have helped the destructive insect move into new territories. Their booming numbers and rapid spread have meant death for large patches of forests. Now NASA satellites have been able to detest these masses of forests killed off by the beetles and researchers have looked at how the damage done by the beetles is linked to forest fires — or as N… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA Satellites Reveal Connection Between Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation and Wild Fires (Video)
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Photo: SWNS.COM/ SWNS via the Guardian We are, after all, named TreeHugger , and have noted before on TreeHugger and Planet Green that trees are effective and sophisticated cooling devices, but perhaps one can have too much of a good thing. David Alvand, a civil engineer in Plymouth, Devon, planted a leyland cypress tree in his front yard in 1991 and it is certainly shading h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We Love Trees, But Can You Have Too Much Of A Good Thing?
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Photo via The Telegraph Oshine the orangutan has a bit of a weight problem . After being kept as a pet for 13 years, lazing around and eating junk-food , the portly primate ballooned up to 220 pounds – but she should soon be on the right track to a hea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obese Orangutan Finds a Healthier New Home
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Credit: pgegreenenergy The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven’t fully tapped into the power of using less power. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Are the Top States for Energy Efficiency? Did Yours Make the Cut?
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Photo: Flickr , CC Adding 3MW Turbines Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines to the existing 140, increasing the capacity of the wind farm from the current 322 megawatts to 539 megawatts. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Expand to 539 Megawatts
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Photo: Flickr , CC Might Expand to Other Countries Speaking of ” Reduce, Reuse, Recycle “, IKEA Sweden wants to make it easier for owners of old IKEA furniture to give it a second life. Against their own commercial interest, the company is offering a free online platform where sellers and buyers can find themselves, and they aren’t even taking a cut of the transactions. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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