Image credit: WasteZero Some places have looked at paying people to recycle , but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a “pay-as-you-throw” scheme for trash , our readers were broadly supportive of the idea. However, the UK Conservative Party (which is … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month
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Image credit: SocialBicycles Whether we are talking about grassroots “peer2peer” bike rental , or multi-million dollar public bike share schemes , there’s no doubt that these initiatives are revolutionizing the way we think about mobility in many cities. But managing access to bikes can be an expensive headache. Luckily, the rise of mobile computing is helping out here too. One proposed scheme is looking to take wirele… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can GPS Slash Costs of Bike Sharing Schemes? (Video)
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Image credit: Peak Moment TV When Peak Moment TV asked whether being uncivilized is sustainable , it prompted an interesting discussion on what happens if we move away from current models of industrial civilization. Now their next episode tackles another aspect of the same question—what happens if we give up on the concept of perpetual economic growth? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are We Hooked on Growth? Dispatches from the Edge of a Cliff (Video)
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There’s no doubt that the last decade or so has seen the rise of what we might term ‘conscious capitalism’. Consumers have increasingly put a premium on paying more for goods and services that have a philanthropic bent — look at the Fair Trade coffee of Starbucks, the organic produce at Whole Foods, or the donation of shoes through Tom’s. Few would argue that this has been a positive development. But there’s at least one man who’s doing exactly that: the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. In this animated feature, he argues that ‘conscious capitalism’ is really just making us feel better about maintaining what is at its core an u… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: GM From 30,000 to 45,000 Units Thanks to strong interest by the public, GM has decided to boost production of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid by 50% in 2012. This means that instead of making 30,000, they’ll make 45,000 at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant. The company is probably hoping that it can improve the economics of the Volt by reaching economies of scale faster than initially planned, and it no doubt feels Nissan breathing down its neck with its cheaper LEAF el… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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GM to Boost Volt PHEV Production Capacity by 50% in 2012
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The latest report from the UN-supported The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project has been released, this time examining how businesses need to start addressing biodiversity loss and better appreciate the value of ecosystem services –those natural planetary functions, such as pollinating insects, that would other… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Businesses & Consumers Just Beginning to Recognize Economic Cost of Biodiversity Loss
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Photo via ezioman The title of a new report from the New Economics Foundation says it all: Fish Dependence: The Increasing Reliance of the EU on Fish from Elsewhere . There are very few places left on the planet where fishing is sustainably done, but Europe is showing some real signs that their industry is going too far. Europeans are eating more fish from other parts of the world as their own stocks deplete, and the day of the year that marks “fish depen… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Fish Dependence Day" Arrives a Month Earlier for European Union & Its Troubled Fish Stocks
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Photo: Watercone Passive Solar One Step Water Condensation FTW! We wrote about the Watercone back in 2004 , but considering how much TreeHugger’s audience has grown since then, it’s likely that only a handful of you were reading the site back then. I think it’s time to have a second look at this very clever device that has the potential to help provide clean drinking water for millions of people who are lacking access to clean water (or if they do, maybe the access is intermittent and they could use a plan B). This could save many lives for … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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This Device Provides Clean Water for Pennies a Day
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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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What’s the Best Way to Price Carbon Emissions: Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend, or Carbon Tax?
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Photo via Wired This is doomed to be an unpopular post, I’m afraid. So let’s just come right out with it: You should be paying more for gasoline. And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated from coal-fired power plants. We all should. Why? Because of a simple economic concept that, frankly, we should hear way more about than we do. I’m talking about externalities, and in the wake of the BP Gulf spill , it’s high time we take a closer look at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why We Should All Be Paying More at the Pump
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