When it comes to green living, Planet Green is the go-to for how-to, and has been beating to death the subject of beating the heat. We round up a few cool thoughts: Should We Declare Heat Days Like We Declare Snow Days? People have lived without air conditioning in hot places for thousands of years by adapting themselves to the heat–remember that the widespread air conditioning use has only become the norm in the past 15 years or so,
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Photo via Paul and Jill Intuitively, everyone already knows this, but a new study has confirmed that seawater free from pollution helps corals survive the impacts of climate change. Coral reef ecologist Robert van Woesik from the Florida Institute of Technology and his team demonstrated that as the waters around the Florida Keys warmed, the corals living in cleaner water continued to thrive while those in more polluted water suffered. Their findings provide evidence that policies around wastewater discharge and water pollution can help corals surviv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cleaner Water Helps Corals Combat Climate Change (Duh.)
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Photo by Skippyjon The Nielsen Norman Group has conducted a study that shows it is substantially faster to read a paper book than an e-book loaded onto an e-reader. What does this mean — a slowed market for e-readers? A new wave of tree-cutting as the publishing market experiences a resurgent love for the printed word? A turn around in the prediction for e-readers to be successful tools in school classrooms? A giant uptake in energy consumption as readers slowly trudge through War and Peace on their Kindles? Well….not quite. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Faster to Read Paper Books Than e-Books, Survey Shows
Credit: Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book / courtesy TreeLink . Why should you plant trees? For shade and oxygen? Right, but there’s tons of other things (like the tons of sequestered carbon) to keep in mind. And if these factoids to follow aren’t convincing enough, how about the chance to win an Apple iPad, along with a selection from the Warner Music Group?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Plant a Tree With Linkin Park and Green Music Challenge, and You Could Win an an iPad
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Logo: Bike For All Photo: Sgillies on Flickr Almost a year ago we asked the question, When Should Tykes Be On Bikes? . Now in the UK the question is being asked, When Should Kids be Allowed to Ride to School — Alone? For one London couple, Oliver and Gillian Schönrock, they decided it was OK for their eight year daughter and five year son to ride the 1.2km (0.75 miles) to their school along th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kids Cycle To School and Parents Risk Being Reported to Social Services
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Photo via Joel A Funk Jr Turning off lights when we’re not using them is an old, well-known way of saving electricity. So old, in fact, that it’s become a bit cliche to mention it as a way of trimming energy consumption. Bigger impacts like flying less or going vegetarian have started to take the spotlight, but the old OFF switch trick for lights and other electronics isn’t done yet. A new study shows that in Great Britain, small changes in energy consumption might make a bigger difference than we thought. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Turning Off Electronics Is an Old Green Trick With a New Big Impact
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Photo: Illumitex Brilliant Idea Unless we want to see most of human civilization shut down as soon as the sun sets, we’ll have to keep finding ways to produce artificial light. But how can we do that in a way that uses as little energy as possible and that produces no toxic waste? Illumitex is a startup from Texas that thinks it can take advantage of the physical characteristics of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to make a better light than what has been on the market so far. What are they doing differently? Read on to find out…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Illumitex Wants to Make Your Lightbulbs Square (and More Efficient)
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Image from Footprint It’s big and clunky and it’s revolutionary. An elevator that uses no energy at all. Designed as part of the London Festival of Architecture , the challenge was to make some historic steps accessible by wheelchair and highlight the need for accessibility across London. The designer, an architect, worked with the Royal Engineers to create the solar elevator. It had to be free-standing since it was to be in the middle of the Duke of York Steps, and it had to be temporary. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Revolutionary Elevator Uses Zero Energy
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Photo via [jeremy] The security of the smart grid, from privacy and ownership of personal information among consumers to hackers’ ability to fell the entire grid in one sweep of malicious code, has been a hotly debated topic since the smart grid’s earliest days. So it is no surprise to hear that security measures that protect the grid is set to be a multi-billion-dollar industry in the very near future. According to a new report by Pike Research, 15% of all smart grid investments over the next few years will be for security, representing about $21 billion by 2015… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Security Is Next Multi-Billion Dollar Boom for Smart Grid
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Photo: Pat Corkery/NREL Evaporative Cooling + Drying with Desiccants = 90% More Efficient A/C As Lloyd and other sensible people keep pointing out , if our buildings and cities were better designed, we would need a lot less air conditioning, and in many cases none at all. That should be goal #1. But because it’s doubtful that’s ubiquitous A/C is going away any time soon, it can’t hurt to make the technology more efficient (keeping buildings cool is using about 5% of the energy used in th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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