Images via Plastiki We’ve heard of Meatless Monday . We’ve heard of Weekday Vegetarian . But there’s a new one to add on to the calendar — Fish Free Friday . A project of the Plastiki gang, the new non-menu item brings awareness to our bad habit of overfishing as well as which species are under p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fish Free Fridays Add New Option to Greening Meal Plans
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Image credit: WTL Photos , used under Creative Commons license. I’ve never liked vision statements. All too often they smack of wishful thinking and fantasy. Yet the environmental movement is rife with them. As I have argued many times before, the green movement needs a concrete plan , and that plan needs to embrace strategic thinking … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Visions Statements Are Not Enough. Backcasting a Pathway to Sustainability.
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Photo credit: TckTckTck HRH The Prince of Wales has released his latest book, Harmony , detailing a new approach to understanding the world—and living in it. In an effort to bring these ideas to the largest audience possible, a film, inspired by the book and sharing the same name, will air on NBC this Friday. In addition, TckTckTck is launching mosaic:EARTH , a cutting edge collaborative media project that uni… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Share Your Message for the World with mosaic:EARTH and Harmony
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Photo: christine zenino (chrissy575) Flickr, CC Now that the whole BP spill debacle is over and done with — since the oil’s all gone and every Gulf resident is again healthy , h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Want to Drill for Oil in Greenland? That’ll be $2 Billion
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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Human Ailments that Animals Suffer too (Video)
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Today on Planet 100: Putting a Human Face on Climate Change (Video)
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Photos: Onsemble/ Flickr , CC. Goal: Accurate Wind Forecasts The more wind farms we build, the more our power grid will have to incorporate mechanisms to deal with the inherent variability of a wind farm’s output. Part of that will probably be accomplished by having more long-distance transmission capacity and interconnecting regional grids , another part might come from
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We Can Use Cell-Phone Towers to Forecast Wind Power
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Photo via video from WGN-TV Most of the time when a city has a rodent problem, they call in human exterminators. But Chicago seems to be testing out something slightly more… natural. After spotting a coyote running down State Street in Chicago, residents became aware of a project the city is testing out that includes allowing GPS-fitted coyotes to run free in the city specifically for them to gobble up problematic pests like rats, mice and rabbits. Video of the wily coyote after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chicago Using GPS-Collared Coyotes to Control Rodents?
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Credit: P_Linehan / Creative Commons If you thought that massive creatures disappeared when dinosaurs became extinct, think again: From this super-sized frog to 1,000-pound snakes to 8-foot tall birds, the giants of the animal world are still all around us. But for many of them, size doesn’t protect them from poaching, habitat loss, and other threats — which means some of these animals could be our next big extinctions.
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When Size Matters: The Planet’s Largest Animals (Slideshow)
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Photo via Autodesk The bulk of a computer is recyclable. Each of our desktops or laptops is made of components that can be easily turned into a new product at end of life — or rather, it should be easy to turn them into something new. While the materials themselves are highly recyclable, it’s tough work to separate them on the recycling line, which is one of the reasons recycling electronics is so expensive. Manufacturers are very slowly starting to take this in mind in their design phase, and third-party certifiers like EPEAT are giving them extra points for designing for easy recycling. But … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Super Recyclable Laptop Can Be Torn Down in 2 Minutes Without Tools
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