Image credit: Fully Charged Despite having recently relaunched his cult “Gearless” internet show as “Fully Charged” , Robert Llewellyn continues to provide insightful, enthusiastic and down-to-earth content for folks interested in electric cars. From his recent road test of the BMW Mini-E to earlier … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan Leaf Road Test: Fully Charged Goes for a Spin (Video)
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+ TOMS Shoes is arguably the best-known for-profit social enterprise. Its schtick? It donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair you purchase. + Taking a page from TOMS is 141 Eyewear . For every pair of retro-flavored horn-rimmed spectacles you purchase, the company donates a pair of glasses to a child who can’t afford them. +
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Best of Ecouterre: 7 Fashion Labels With a Conscience
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Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It’s a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it’s all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing industry can be sustained. While skeptical at first, locals are also latching on to the idea. Video report after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Thailand Attempts to Solve Overfishing By Dumping Tanks, Trains and Trucks into Sea (Video)
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Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting. In Borneo, often the land is turned over to plantation agriculture. A new study in
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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study
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Image credit: The Journey TV It’s been a while since I checked in on The Journey TV —the travelling documentary project that brought us videos on an underused train station turned gardening hub , one man’s efforts to restore 600 square miles of ancient forest ,
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Is This Ecotopia? Life at Findhorn Ecovillage (Video)
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Image credit: Just for Sharing Ideas I was chatting with a friend who took objection to my post on anaerobic digestion . He had no problem with the concept of finding uses for waste, but cautioned that we often think uncritically about what happens next. After all, once you start using waste, it’s no longer waste. And once it’s no longer waste, you are creating demand for it. And once you create demand, supply will surely follow. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Waste as Resource: The Unintended Consequences of Zero Waste
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The Sierra Club is excited to announce a new opportunity to participate in the growing youth-driven movement to engage in community service while also honoring those who defend our country every day. This week we launched Serve Outdoors , a call to participate in the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Honor and Serve Outdoors this September 11th
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Image credit: Nesster /Flickr Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it today, before Facebook and Twitter and mass e-mails, that his staff was literally weighing the letters on a scale that we were sending from Sierra C… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photos: Atlantis Resources Corp. There are some big tidal turbines out there, but none so massive as the one pictured above: The Atlantis Resources AK1000, just unveiled in Scotland and due to be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney later this summer. Weighing in at 130 tons and standing nearly 74 feet tall, with rotors nearly 60 feet across, the 1MW turbine’s manufacturers say it is capable of generating enough electricity for 1000 homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Unveiled in Scotland – Yes, It’s Humongous
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” The Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead (left photo accented by a rainbow) in 1983, the year its highest water elevation is recorded. By 2009 (right), Lake Mead’s water-elevation level has dramatically declined, revealing the chalky-white structure of Hoover Dam. ” Caption & image credit: Arizona Republic Falling water levels in Arizona’s Lake Mead have Arizona citizens facing an historic turning point, brought on by a 12-year regional drought – effects, as pictured. (Water consumption in the Colorado River wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lake Mead At Lowest Level Since 1956: Water Users Conserving, Hoping For Rain Next Year
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