Image credit: BoingBoing I would have loved to send my kids to the Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool, being built at an undisclosed location and revealed for the first time on BoingBoing. It’s being built of Binishells, which,
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Binishells At The Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool
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photo: Wonderlane / Creative Commons Lots of effort recently on quantifying the financial value of ecosystem services and here’s one more small piece of that: The US Forest Service has just completed an assessment of the dollar value that trees add to the urban environment and the results are pretty interesting. Surveying Chicago, Sacramento and Portland, here’s what trees are worth:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored Carbon Emissions, Thousands to House Prices…
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Since 2004, the United States government has offered a 45-cent per gallon tax credit (originally 51 cents per) for gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol. Corn growers and refiners saw corn prices skyrocket as ethanol production expanded, benefitting them while costs for human food and livestock feed also increased. But now, at the end of the year, the billions spent on yearly corn ethanol subidies expires. Environmentalists have changed their initial support for the program, as analysis found that the ethanol program resulted in negligible environmental advantages to make more expensive food worthwhile. As Ronald Bailey wrote for Reason.com, “an analysis by the EPA found that current ethanol production techniques actually result in higher emissions of greenhouse gases than refining and burning ordinary gasoline.” With both right and left-wing groups unsupportive of renewing the volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, should Congress give any attention to its expiration date? added by: cberlin1
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photo: www.bluewaikiki.com via flickr Let’s take it as given that considering the flack dairy gets from segments of the green community for its environmental problems that this result is probably what the Innovation Center for US Dairy wanted, and move on: According to a new calculation of the carbon footprint of a gallon of milk in the United States, the emissions of the dairy industry are 2% of the nation’s total, lower than previous studies have shown,
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Dairy Industry Says Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lower Than Previously Reported: 2% of US Total
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by David Buckland, resident artist and the director of Cape Farewell, as part of the Cape Farewell project . After the excitement of ice entrapment , polar bears, and nullified rescue our Captain has, under Spitsbergan instructions, been more cautious with regard to ice and weather. We have been dancing with ice maps, weather patterns and plain strong head winds. Four times we have tried to go south … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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After Averting Disaster, the Cape Farewell Expedition Grinds On
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Energy stock performance snapshot. Image credit: Google Finance Pablo recently filled us in on the abrupt end of the Climate Leaders voluntary carbon reporting program . (Eight years with a relatively small group of industries was enough.) In parallel, a group of US states worked up a carbon reporting protocol as well; and, there are several NGO and government-led carbon reporting protoc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Carbon Emissions Reporting Where It Belongs: With Global Financial Accountants
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Photo via MyFavoritePetSitter In order to know what the emissions and pollution created since the industrial revolution have really done to our air quality, researchers need to know what the air was like before we discovered our affinity for factories. To do that, they have to scout out the last places on earth where the air has stayed unaffected by everything we’ve pumped into it. It sounds like an impossible task, but researchers have found a spot above the Amazon Basin of Manaus that seems to fit the bill. They’v… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Last Pure Air Particles on Earth Captured for Climate Science
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Beijing shopping mall, photo: John via flickr James Kanter over at the New York Times point out a very important statistical update: According to an assessment of per capita carbon emissions by the Netherlands Environmental Agency , China now emits on a per person basis more than France. While emissions in France in 2009 were 6 tons, those in China were 6.1 tons–up from 2.2 tons in … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China No Longer a Developing Nation – Per Capita Carbon Emissions Higher Than France’s
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