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Japanese Trends Worth Watching: De-ownership, Demonetization & De-materialism

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Japanese Trends Worth Watching: De-ownership, Demonetization & De-materialism

Photo via: Flickr/ tomo908us It’s hard to see Japan’s sunny side of affairs beyond the red pool of blood in Taiji’s cove. It’s currently in the middle of peak dolphin killing season. When I read the following piece in Resurgence by Junko Edahiro, a Japanese environmental activist and journalist, however, a tiny glimmer of hope arose. She reports on three cultural eco-trends brewing … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Deodorant May Help Save Stinky Endangered Birds

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Deodorant May Help Save Stinky Endangered Birds

Photo via Flickr For most of history, life on New Zealand was pretty easy for the island’s native bird species — until the arrival of humans and the invasive species they brought with them, that is. These birds had no natural predators on land to worry about, which may have caused some of them, like the

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Astounding Arches In Pavilion of 33,000 Beer Crates (Photos)

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Astounding Arches In Pavilion of 33,000 Beer Crates (Photos)

Images: SHSH With recycled, modular materials like these attention-grabbing, widely-available yellow beer crates becoming a popular building component, it was only a matter of time before the ante was upped. If you’ve already seen this pretty cool freeform pavilion made from 2,000 beer crates, then check out this mind-boggling structure made from 33,000 crates and complete with columns and high-flying arches:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New BP Spill Analysis Reveals that 185 Million Gallons of Oil have Leaked

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New BP Spill Analysis Reveals that 185 Million Gallons of Oil have Leaked

Photo: BP BP Oil Spill Post-Mortem A team of U.S. scientists from Columbia University has just published a paper about a review of video footage from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico last Spring and Summer. Using a technique called “optical plume velocimetry” and other analysis techniques, they were able to estimate how much oil escaped the Macondo well between April 20th and the moment the leak was plugged on July 15th (with final confirmation that the well was stable only on Sept… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why China’s Environmental Laws Have Been Useless in Stopping Pollution

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Why China’s Environmental Laws Have Been Useless in Stopping Pollution

photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr It’s no secret that China’s economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it’s also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than in the United States. The effectiveness of those laws is, in the words of Peking University

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Kevin Rudd: 3 Good Things Came Out of Copenhagen (Video)

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Kevin Rudd: 3 Good Things Came Out of Copenhagen (Video)

Unless you’re a climate policy wonk or a close follower of all things global warming, here’s what you probably remember about Copenhagen: It sucked. It was a failure. Crash and Burn. In reality, it wasn’t the absolute loss that many perceive and still others claim it to be. At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, former Prime Minister (and current Foreign Minister) of Australia Kevin Rudd articulated exactly this sentiment. And it’s a useful one to keep in mind, if only to remember that tangible progress is indeed being made to address climate change on an international level, despite what media narrative-seekers would have you bel… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century

photo: Alan Strakey via flickr A new paper in the journal Nature explains what happened during the mid-twentieth century to halt the ever-increasing global temperature rise that continues to this day. Rather than warming in the Northern Hemisphere being stopped by a greater build-up of air pollution as had been supposed, the researchers say an unexpectedly a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is This "The World’s First Solar Powered Air-Conditioning Unit"?

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Inhabitat calls it the “World’s first solar powered air conditioning unit”, as does the Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Company . That is a rather grand statement, given that another Chinese company, BROAD, has been doing it for years , and there are direct solar powered air conditioners installed from Brooklyn to

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TreeHugger Bikes Climate Ride: My Bamboo Bike From Organic Bikes

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo copyright Mairi Beautyman So let the games begin. In about 15 minutes, I’ll be taking off for the first day of Brita Climate Ride — the climate awareness bike trip that has arranged to have me pedaling 320 miles in 5-days (on a bamboo bike, no less!) from Eureka, California to San Francisco. Or I think I will — the last I heard from our volunteer bike repairman was something about a hacksaw…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Palm Oil Plantations on Peat Soil No Longer Qualify for Clean Development Mechanism Carbon Credits

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Palm oil plantation and processing plant, photo: Marufish via flickr Good that this loophole’s been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils –those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture are the perfect… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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