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Record High May Temperatures in US Continue to Outpace Record Lows by 2:1

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images via Climate Capital April turned out to be the hottest on record globally, and South Asia is in the midst of a heatwave that is the hottest since modern records began two hundred years ago. Closer to home, as Capital Climate points out, the National Climatic Data Center reports for the past three months in the US new record highs are outpacing record lows by about two-to-one. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Garden Shed Home Offices Sprouting Up in UK

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The backyard-shed-as-home-office idea is catching on in North America, but it is nothing compared to what is going on in the UK. There, they are being promoted as turnkey solutions that reduce commuting, save money for companies, and are being offered as fully outfitted workspaces, the cubicle of the 21st century. A new entry is from podSPACE ; Alex at Shedworking writes that “the pod comes with data/phone points… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wretched Excess Dept: a Lamborghini in the Living Room

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Koichi Torimura Some people love their cars, so much that they wish they could be in their living room. But what if you have nine of them? Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida had such a client, who also said “Oh, and the living room needs a tall tree.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can This 76-Million-Year-Old Species Survive… Us?

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The Hispaniolan Solenodon may look a bit strange for a modern mammal, what with its long snout, hairless legs, and rat-like tail, but considering how long they’ve been around, it’s no wonder why their look is not in vogue. Solenodons, it turns out, are one of the oldest surviving mammals on the planet, with a lineage dating back some 76 million years ago–and they’ve been through a lot. Having survived the same asteroid impact which killed the dinosaurs, as well as millions of years worth of temperature extremes, the hearty creature now finds itself

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BREAKING: US Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill

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photo: banspy via flickr I can here the collective cry of ‘Right on!’ and ‘About effing time!’ rising up from the TreeHugger readership… CNN is reporting that US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf Gusher. We’ll have more as it emerges, but this is what we know so far:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Should Obama Temporarily Take Over BP?

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Photo via the Times Online Public policy expert and Salon writer Robert Reich thinks he should . In a persuasive piece that’s the sort of idea du jour in the green blogosphere, he argues that the Obama administration needs to put BP into a temporary receivership, allowing the federal government to have direct authority over the flailing company. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vancouver’s EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosion of Small Green Modern Design

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It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don’t. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views and privacy but gets rid of the NIMBY factor that has paralyzed this kind of thing elsewhere. (See http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/vancouver-approves-back-lane-housing.php) Now it is coming to fruition, with the first laneway houses designed under the bylaw getting built. First up in Bryn Davidson’s Lanefab house, 710 square feet of green modern design in at the back of a house on Vancouver’s east s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Butterfly Biomimicry Can Curb Counterfeiting of Banknotes

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Image via University of Exeter The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays , but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them with as well. Researchers are looking in to how biomimicry can foil the efforts of would-be forgers, using the radiant colors created by light rather than pigment…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Stock Plunges: Company Loses $67 Billion in 6 Weeks

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Image by Stephen Messenger Evidently, being responsible for the biggest environmental disaster in US history doesn’t come cheap. Over the last 6 weeks, BP has lost a staggering $67 billion — one third the value of the entire company’s market share. The spill has also cost the company an additional $1 billion in cleanup costs so far. In fact, BP’s financial outlook is so dire that some analysts say the company could fall victim to a hostile takeover…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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LEED or Not, Parking Garages Are Not Green

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In Leiden, the Netherlands, Paul de Ruiter Architects are building a parking structure. It is made of “recyclable” materials so that it can be taken down in ten or twenty years when the land is redeveloped. The architect writes at Designboom: “given that our current way of life is largely dependent on mobility (by car), it is important that the issue is resolved in a way that is as sustainable as possible.” Wrong. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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