Image credit: lydurs /Flickr The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world’s oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tapping the Energy Below the Earth’s Surface
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Image via National Geographic What Hurricane Katrina and many other hurricanes have told us is that wetlands are on the coastlines for a reason — they act as a vital buffer protecting land from storms coming in from offshore. The fact that wetlands in the south have been developed or otherwise ruined has been a contributor to the amount of destruction a hurricane can cause. New Orleans recognizes that it needs to build up that buffer once again, and researchers think partially treated sewage will do the trick. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sewage As Hurricane Protection? New Orleans Could Use It To Regrow Wetlands
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Image credit: The Journey TV From this awesome tour of a permaculture allotment , to residents battling to keep their gardens , Britain’s ‘allotment’ culture has featured regularly on TreeHugger. And not without good reason. These small plots of land, rented from local government for an affordable fee, are visible in almost every town and city across the country,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Britain’s Allotment Culture: When Residents Demand Land, They Get It (Video)
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We’re big fans of Sarah Wigglesworth, the English architect who mixes green design with high style. Dezeen shows the James Leal Centre in Redbridge, London. Its defining feature is the monitor roof, which has solar thermal collectors on the south pitch, and monitor windows on the steeper north pitches. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Twisted Solar Roof Dominates Visitor Centre by Sarah Wigglesworth
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Image credit: National Heritage Unless the very worst predictions come true (which is perfectly possible), then it is fair to assume there will be winners and losers from climate change. We’ve already heard about Greenlander’s celebrating increased access to natural resources , and even exploring the idea of bottled iceberg water . Now another segment of the global population… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Vintage Year for Archaeology Follows Hot, Dry Weather
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Roads in Residential Areas Should be Safe for All In residential areas, lowering the speed limit for cars not only reduces the number of accidents, injuries and deaths, but it also revitalises the neighborhood by encouraging more people to walk and bike. When people feel safe on the streets, they use greener forms of transportation more often. That’s the main argument of the 20’s Plenty for Us campaign in the UK, and looking at the results in areas where the 20 MPH speed limit was implemented, it looks like they a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The 20’s Plenty for Us Campaign (Video)
photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey
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photo: jon smith via flickr If you buy a carbon offset for the flights you take, you’re in a small minority–at least according to a new survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority carried out at Stansted airport last September. As reported by The Guardian , only 7% of flyers surveyed bothered to buy at offs… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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So Why Can’t We Bother to Buy Carbon Offsets for Our Flights?
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Magnetic Island house exterior Photo: Robin Gauld for Sanctuary magazine issue 12 When it came time for our architecture writer, Lloyd, to select the Best Shelter Magazine for TreeHugger’s 2010 Best of Green Awards in Design and Architecture he quickly made his choice: Sanctuary Magazine, from Australia’s Alternative Technology Association (ATA). Indeed he gushed, “so mu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The House that One Man Can Lift. Sanctuary Magazine Showcases This and More.
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Image credit: OnEarth Magazine When I wrote about the NRDC’s new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming , the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingly lackluster. “Lipstick on a pig”, said Bert Harvey. “A misguided attempt at prolonging a faulty paradigm,” said John. So I’m unlikely to get much thanks for posting a video showing just what one of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Industrial Monoculture Cleans Up: Greenwash, or Mainstreaming Green? (Video)
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