Image Credit: Inhabitat Rio has been going through a bit of a rough patch lately- it’s been set on fire by a hot air balloon and hit hard by deadly torrential rains . But the city is far from beat: a key player in
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New, Green Museum of Tomorrow in Rio Unveiled
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Image courtesy of Matt Kistler/Walmart This guest post was written by Matt Kistler, senior vice-president of sustainability at Walmart. At Walmart, sustainability continues to make us a better company by reducing waste, lowering costs, driving innovation, and helping us fulfill our mission to save people money so they can live better. In 2005, when we began our sustainability journey, we learned that taking a leadership role and collaborating with others that share our commitment and passion for sustaining the environment could benefit … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Walmart’s Sustainability Initiatives Explained
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Sigh. While we write about a world after cars, where people live in walkable cities, Francesco Gatti is building a drive-thru museum in Nanjing, China. The whole thing is a cross between some complicated origami and a parking garage; one drives through exibits to the parking on the roof, then gets out of the car and looks at exhibits in the cube in the middle that takes up a small proportion of the building area. Of course it ramps down, so effort expended is minimal…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Just What We Needed Dept.: A Drive-Thru Car Museum
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Photo via Mykl Roventine Ecomagination is General Electric’s environmentally-focuses research and development program. We’ve watched Ecomagination for years now, including eyeing it for greenwash , and the program has continued to grow, even becoming the first corporate tenant in Masdar City . And now, it is about to get a whole lot bigger as GE invests a full $10 billion into the programs with a g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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General Electric Invests $10 Billion in Ecomagination
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Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch British-based risk consultancy Maplecroft has released a new report showing which countries have the most precarious and stable water supplies. The report is intended to help guide investors, underscoring just how serious water supply is getting when it comes to the world economy. From farming to manufacturing, investors in various industries are starting to seriously weigh where they put their money based on how secure water supplies are or will be, and companies with interests in areas with unstable water supplies are having to put water ef… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Study Shows Haves and Have-Nots in World Water Supply
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photo: Minette Layne via flickr The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling , to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Commercial Hunting Just One of Many Problems Facing Whales: Oil Exploration, Pollution, Fishing Nets
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I missed episode two . How did I do that? They played two on the first night. I wasn’t paying attention. I figured it was one episode per week. My bad. I get a dumbass award…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Should I Stay of Should I Go? Thoughts on an "Unhappy Birthday" at the Beekman Boys Farm
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Photo via Nature Blog By now, it’s become quite clear that climate change presents a number of threats to life on Earth. So while manipulative politicians and skeptical media outlets continue to voice dissent, institutions like the US military are already in the process of planning, with the aid of climate scientists, how to cope with global war… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Navy Vice Admiral: Climate Change is a Threat Multiplier (Video)
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image: Klimacampus Though currently the extent of Arctic sea ice in lower than it was back in 2007, when the current record minimum was set, two different groups of German scientists’ forecasts show continued rapid decline but no new record to be set by this September. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scientists Predict Continued Rapid Summer Arctic Sea Ice Decline – But No New Record
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Image credit: Good Washers and driers are fast, easy, and convenient—but they tend to use a lot energy and water. Levi Srauss & Co., it turns out, has noticed. According to a study they commissioned , “60 percent of the climate impact comes during the consumer phase.” Now, they are asking for help to design a better way to dry clothes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Help Design a Better Clothes Line
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