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Real Worst-Case Scenario For Gulf Of Mexico: Double Exploding Methane Trigggered Tsunamis

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

Image credit:mi2g.com If one side of the deepwater drilling debate denies any serious risk of expanded deepwater drilling – an example of this denial would be the court injunction, just now successfully obtained, overturning the Federal exploratory drilling moratorium in the deepwater Gulf – it is fair and appropriate to state the ultimate potential danger of expanded drilling. From Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance, via Mi2g.com , a work-in-progress worst-case risk description concludes with this paragraph: “The danger of loss of buoyancy and cascading tsunamis in the Gulf of Mexico — caused by the release of t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Cap and Trade Explained (Video)

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

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Weekday Vegetarian: White Bean and Arugula Salad with Lemon Dill Vinaigrette

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

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I guess like most home vegetable gardeners , I am having my share of hits and misses this season. Some enterprising little critter ate all of my carrot tops as soon as they started to come out, so that was the end of that. My beets were doing fabulously, but something has started to eat them as well, which I find much more upsetting. My

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Solar-Assisted Air Conditioning Comes To Market

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

Solar powered air conditioning makes so much sense; it is hottest when the sun shines. So all the blogs are excited about LG’s new “eco-friendly solar hybrid air conditioner”. Slapping a 70 watt solar panel on top of a thousand watt air conditioner is certainly a help, but hardly the holy grail… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If Bike Theft Makes You Fat, Better Bike Parking Makes You Thin

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

Bikes, many of them stolen, pile up at the Amsterdam bike depot. Photo A.S. It’s practically a requirement these days to carry not one but two ponderous bike locks, yet city streets are still thick with bike thieves. A British insurance survey recently suggested a bike is stolen about every 65 seconds in the U.K. and Mike Cavanaugh of the London Cycling Campaign thinks theft turns people away from healthful cycling: “Bike theft is cited as the most common reason for people giving up cycling. In 2008 there were over 17,000 bikes reported stolen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: David Frum on How To Get Off Oil

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

Remember $4.00 gas? How it killed the Hummer and changed habits? Conservative columnist David Frum does, as he hits TreeHugger two days in a row for being….sensible. No wonder he got fired from the American Enterprise Institute. He writes in CNN.com about the tough but necessary slog to get off oil: President Obama is right: We can take the U.S. off oil. But he omitted to mention the fine print: Doing … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ice Cream Creates Plastic-Fighting SUPER Heroes with Help from Bonnie Raitt

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

Credit: Ben & Jerry’s . Bonnie Raitt can move you with music, but can she move people to ditch their disposable bottles? Perhaps the possibility of 52 pints of premium Ben & Jerry’s goodness can help? Raitt is front and center on the 6th challenge from the Green Music Group , to get people to switch from single-use plastic bottles to hip, reusable containers. Raitt is urging peo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security

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

Image credit: stevendepolo /Flickr With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century. Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water use is devoted to irrigation. Thus, raising irrigation efficiency is central to raising water productivity overall. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s the Best Way to Price Carbon Emissions: Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend, or Carbon Tax?

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

photo: Jeffery DelViscio via flickr With all the talk about getting the United States off of oil, energy independence, creating a low-carbon future, et cetera, one of the key parts of that is reducing carbon emissions, whether they are from electricity, transportation or wherever they occur. Central to that is setting a price on carbon emissions. What options are there to do this? Cap and trade may be the main option being considered, but both a cap and dividend approach, as well as a carbon tax have their vocal proponents. Let’s take a look at e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forced to Cut Back, One Die-Hard Bacon Lover Learns to See the Merit in a Bit of Moderation

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by lisatozzi via Flickr. In my social group of foreigners living in Istanbul , the high price of pork products — unpopular eats in a predominantly Muslim country — is a constant lament. But in the countries we hail from, according to the creators of a hard-hitting recent documentary, bacon , sau… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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