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San Diego Sets Example for Water Conservation, Curbs Consumption by 11%

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

Photo via StormyDog Good news for water thanks to San Diego. The city is home to over 1.25 million people, all of whom are feeling the pinch of water restrictions after a drought emergency was called last year. San Diego set a goal of an 8% reduction in water use, which they flew past with a fantastic 11% reduction during the past fiscal year. “A year ago, I urged all San Diegans to make water conservation a conscious part of their everyday lives,” Mayor Jerry Sanders said

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Private Parking Lots Forced To Offer Space For Bikes In Buenos Aires

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

Image copyright: McClellanParkTMA.org . In a city where bike theft is a very good reason to make you doubt about riding somewhere, providing parking facilities is almost as important as creating new bike paths . This is the case in Buenos Aires (and many cities around the world), and the reason why it’s so good to hear that the government has pushed a new law to provide several bike-parking facilities, including spaces inside pri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Method Laundry Detergent’s Radical Innovation Wins International Design Excellence Award

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

All images via www.methodlaundry.co.uk Along with the great news that Method Laundry Detergent has just recently been launched in the UK (yes our clothes are already cleaner) we hear that Method’s innovative pump action laundry detergent bottle has won the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) for its behaviour changing design.

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Can Rivers Be Used for Swimming Again?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image: The sculpture “First Generation” by Chong Fah Cheong depicts the Singapore River as in olden days, via williamcho, Flickr As July practices heat waves in preparation for some real hot August, one cannot help but yearn for the olden days, when people would jump into the nearest river to cool down. But that was before industrial wastes made the water too dirty for swimming. Before we protested, passed laws, an… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Meet the New 4-Part Climate Bill

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via a Green Living It looks like Senate Democrats are indeed going to make one last push for energy reform before the November election circus takes the main stage. The legislation, which hasn’t been entirely hammered out yet, will have four main parts, Politico reports — including a part specifically designed to address the BP Gulf Spill and offshore drilling. Here’s a quick look at those parts: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Killing Millions of Gassy Animals Could Really Cut Carbon, Study Says

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

Photo via chuck12600 If you hate carbon emissions, the Australian Outback may seem like a paradise, unless you’re a bit gassy, that is. According to a new study, the vast, sparsely populated Outback stores an incredible amount of carbon within its forests and grasslands, a whopping 9.7 billion tons of the stuff, in fact. As impressive as that is, researchers say the region could hold much, much more if certain measures were to be implemented, but there’s a catch — one calls for the culling… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who’s Cleaning Up the BP Spill & How Much Has it Cost? (Infographic)

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

Image via Boston Here’s a handy infographic to bring you up to speed on the cleanup operations following the April 20th explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig . Also included are easily digestible stats on how much, approximately, operations have cost thus far. It’s brief and to the point, and makes for a solid quick reference point. Infographic is after the jump: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Overpopulation a Green Myth?

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

Image via Greenpacks We hear it all the time, and have heard it since Malthus : That overpopulation is the primary cause of the world’s environmental ills. It makes sense in simple logical terms: The more people there are consuming natural resources, the greater a threat humanity poses to exhausting them. Hard to argue with that. But the issue is of course more complex — and there’s an interesting back-and-forth over at Grist on the subject to prove it. O… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chevy Volt Battery to Have 8 Years/100,000 Miles Warranty

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

Photo: General Motors Other Automakers Will Have to At Least Match It GM seems pretty confident that the Chevy Volt’s battery pack, which is based on LG Chem cells but is packaged by GM, will last a long time without too many problems. It has just announced that it will be offering a standard warranty of 8 years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes first) covering the all of the 161 battery components. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC Guerrilla Gardeners Turn Billboard Blight into Pop-Up Planters — In Four Easy Steps

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

Photo of an ‘instant’ garden at Spring and Lafayette via NYC The Blog . Guerrilla gardeners in New York have seized the opportunity created by the city’s crackdown on illegal advertisements to promote their own cause on the now-empty billboard spaces: greening the urban jungle, one pop-up wall garden at a time…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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