Photo: Fisker Fisker Going East Fisker Automotive, the California-based maker of the Karma and Karma S series plug-in hybrids (aka electric cars with a range extender like the Chevy Volt ), has inked a deal with China Grand Automotive Group to have its vehicles distributed, marketed and serviced in the Middle Kingdom…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fisker Partners With China Grand Automotive Group for Distribution in China
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Image: joost j. bakker via flickr Still waiting for the opportunity to report some good news on coal ash , but unfortunately, that’s not today. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has sent a letter to the Pennsylvania State Auditor complaining about the disposal of toxic coal ash into abandoned mines, causing water pollution and toxic vapors, all under the c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Legal Questions Over Use of Coal Ash to Fill Abandoned Mines in Pennsylvania
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Photo: Dutch Bike Co., used with permission. Low-Cost Solution to Keep On Bikin’ One of the cyclists at Dutch Bike Co was caught without studded tires when it started snowing in Seattle, but no matter, that’s nothing that a box of zip ties can’t fix! This MacGyver trick isn’t new , but now that winter is here, it’s worth bringing up once more…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The MacGyver Approach to Winter Biking (Zip Ties!)
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Photo: NASA, Public domain R.I.P. Some things are so massive that they can only be appreciated from the vantage point of space. Many of the giant icebergs that are breaking off Antarctica are drifting Northward (is there any other direction that you can go to from the South pole?) and getting stuck on the shallow continental shelf that surrounds South Georgia Island. These icebergs are so large, that when they melt, the fresh water that they release in the ocean is enough to alter the local marine ecosystems…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mega-Icebergs go to South Georgia Island to Die
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Photo by ComputerHotline via Flickr Creative Commons This year has been quite a doozy for water. From spreading smart metering to our water works, to shipping water from Alaska all the way to India, to clever and crazy ideas to help us conserve, down to our annual month-long Blue August feature, we’ve been through the wringer, so to speak. Check out the top news of 2010 in the world of water. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What About Water?: The Year In Review
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Back in about 2004, in the early days of the modern prefab craze, I first learned of Peter Strzebniok and his Nottoscale prefabs . At the time his designs were based on ” a steel framework which allows individual building elements to be interchanged.” It seemed complicated , and I don’t think any of them got built. But now Peter is back with his T-Modulome , and it has been built, with a much simpler structure, and a bigger plan, providing a good demonstration of how the industry has e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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T-Modulome From Nottoscale Demonstrates The Evolution of Modern Prefab
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Image via GOOD How much does the US subsidize the various players in the energy sector? If you’re a regular Treehugger reader, you’re probably aware that the federal government doles out hefty sums to the oil industry , and that it lends also lends a hand to the nascent renewable sector as well. And of course, there’s ethanol … But who gets what? With another
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Back in about 2004, in the early days of the modern prefab craze, I first learned of Peter Strzebniok and his Nottoscale prefabs . At the time his designs were based on ” a steel framework which allows individual building elements to be interchanged.” It seemed complicated , and I don’t think any of them got built. But now Peter is back with his T-Modulome , and it has been built, with a much simpler structure, and a bigger plan, providing a good demonstration of how the industry has e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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T-Modulome From Nottoscale Demonstrates The Evolution of Modern Prefab
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Oliver Foster’s Vertical Farm The Economist does a good summary of the strengths and weaknesses of vertical farming . They note that “The necessary technology already exists. The glasshouse industry has more than a century’s experience of growing crops indoors in large quantities”, and that “The technology of hydroponics allows almost any kind of plant to be grown in nutrient-rich water, from root crops like radishes and potatoes to fruit such as melons and even cereals like maize.” But does it make sens… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Economist Looks At Vertical Farming and Asks: Does It Stack Up?
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photo: IRRI Images / Creative Commons With COP16 just ended and some hope of multilateral action on climate revived a new report from Friends of the Earth highlights an important point in all these discussions: Current official calculations on emission reductions only give us a 50% chance of keeping temperature rise below 2°C. That’s not what nations have pledged to do mind you, which certainly won’t keep temperature rise below that critical thr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Official Emission Reduction Calculations Only Give 50-50 Chance of Avoiding Climate Catastrophe
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