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Is WiFi Killing Our Trees?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is WiFi Killing Our Trees?

Electrobonsai effect on trees : They move away from EMF sources. Image Credit Lloyd Alter The TreeHugger Team proved it three years ago: Trees do not like WiFi. Now other scientists are catching up. A recent Dutch study was quoted in PC World : The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a “lead-like shine” on their leaves that… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Downside of Heat Cogeneration at Coal Power Plants

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Downside of Heat Cogeneration at Coal Power Plants

A coal plant in China. Photo: Wikipedia , CC Don’t Turn Off the Heat Please Both the US and China have many coal plants (producing about 45% of the power in the US and 75% in China). One difference is that in China, it is more common for the waste heat from those power plants to be recovered and used to heat local residential buildings or for industrial purposes. On the face of it, this is a good thing, but as Kevin Bullis points out , this also… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Breaking the Law to Make Streets Greener? 8 Smart Guerrilla Urban Improvements (Slideshow)

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Breaking the Law to Make Streets Greener? 8 Smart Guerrilla Urban Improvements (Slideshow)

Photo: Anna Garforth . Armed with gardening equipment, white traffic paint, or even a few benches, young (and not so young) activists around the world are taking back the streets to turn our cities into greener, more livable and simply more fun spaces.

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MEKA Prefab Takes Manhattan, Raises Questions About The Future Of Housing

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on MEKA Prefab Takes Manhattan, Raises Questions About The Future Of Housing

Image Credit: Inhabitat Since the invention of the shipping container and the revolution in transport it caused, the globalization of world trade has changed the face of manufacturing. About the only industry that did not move to China was housebuilding; It’s hard to ship a house. But now, the clever Canadians of MEKA have solved that problem; They have taken the incredibly logical step of designing … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turn an Old MP3 Player Into New Flashdrive

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Turn an Old MP3 Player Into New Flashdrive

Image via Instructables About a week ago we saw a cool way to turn a couple old floppy disks into a USB falshdrive. But Instructables user hightekrednek2396 came up with a more modern take on the project. As you upgrade your music player, you might find yourself with a very old version of your iPod. You can put the device to good use by hacking it into a flashdrive . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Feast Our Eyes and Blow Our Minds. Photo of The Year 2010.

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Feast Our Eyes and Blow Our Minds. Photo of The Year 2010.

Photos: Photo Of The Year on Facebook. Our pals at Wend magazine alerted us to the Photo of the Year competition, now in its ninth year. The comp is a fundraiser for MESD Outdoor School Program in Oregon, and POTY (a rather awkward acronym) has raised over $49,000 USD for the Outdoor School’s field-based science, which o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise

Photo: CFuga under a Creative Commons license . One of the striking things about Paris is that, for a major city whose metropolitan area includes nearly 12 million people, there are very few buildings more than five or six stories tall. Since 1977, soon after the construction of the 689 foot tall Tour Montparnasse, a building that sticks out like a sore thumb and is widely disliked by Parisians, there has been a height limit of 121 feet on all new buildings. (The Eiffel Tower, at 1,063 feet, is by far the tallest structure … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Big Eco-Conscious Holiday Giveaway: Tell Us What Good Gesture You’ll Make To Win Awesome Prizes

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Big Eco-Conscious Holiday Giveaway: Tell Us What Good Gesture You’ll Make To Win Awesome Prizes

Images courtesy Summer Rayne Oakes. Friend of TreeHugger and eco-model , consultant, and designer Summer Rayne Oakes has sure piled up spiffy list of do-gooding on her resume since we first met her six years ago. From hosting programs on Planet Green to working with woman in Mozambique to improve their lives through cottage industry, she’s made an indelible mark on the modern green scene. Some of her latest projects include laun… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How One Online Global Warming Poll Could Influence US Policy

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How One Online Global Warming Poll Could Influence US Policy

Photo: gregw66 , Flickr, CC Sure, everyone gets a kick out of online polls: They’re fun, simple, interactive. The votes get tallied up right before your eyes, a digital snapshot of community opinion. But you’d be hard-pressed to think of anything less scientific — and certainly anything less worthy of basing actual policy recommendations upon. Yet just two days ago, the results of an online poll were submitted as actual testimony in a Congressional hearing on climate change, by a so-called expert seeking to discredit climate science. This is the story of how this absur… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seabird That Soars In Air and Water Inspires New Flying/Swimming Robot

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Seabird That Soars In Air and Water Inspires New Flying/Swimming Robot

Photo via Wikipedia The common guillemot is a seabird with a smart strategy for fishing. It can fly over the water with straight wings, but when it dives into the water to catch it’s prey, it swims with bent wings. The bend in the wing reduces drag, and it is this morphing wing that has inspired researchers to come up with a robot that can both fly and swim — something brand new in the biomimicry world. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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