Photo Credit: Christy McDonald Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff project – a series of succinct animated videos explaining the systemic problems with some everyday items – has been a phenomenal success, reaching millions of viewers, sparking important thought and discussion and even causing its fair share of controversy. With her videos
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The Story of Annie Leonard: Her Take on Stuff, Bottled Water, Cosmetics and More
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Image via My Plastiki The Plastiki is nearing the end of it’s voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It’s been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the trek. But the Plastiki has had an important goal from the very beginning, and now, the crew is asking you for support to meet that goal. As the Plastiki boat nears the end of its journey from San Francisco to Sydney, David de Rothschild and his crew are preparing for their next part of the mission,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pledge to Plug Plastic Pollution with the Plastiki
photo: Kevin Dooley Two new pieces in NRDC ‘s Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the Congressional Budget Office , details how much money eliminating the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit; the second, from
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Ditching Ethanol Subsidy Not Only Will Save US $6 Billion, But Won’t Hurt Domestic Production
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Photo via PhysOrg A top mining company in China, the Zijin Mining Group, allowed a toxic waste water to spill into the Ting river, polluting the major water way, killing nearly 1,900 tons of fish, and threatening the fishing industry in the area. The toxic spill wasn’t so much a spill, as a result of gross negligence — worn equipment and some shady activity. Investigators found that the 320,000 cubic feet of “leaked” waste water actually flowed from a sludge point to the Ting river through an “illegally built passage.” The pollution has spread down river into the Guangdong provi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Toxic Spill at Chinese Copper Mine Kills Nearly 1,900 Tons of Fish
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Photo via Reiner Schubert As our global water crisis persists, we’re hearing more and more about the use of desalination as a viable source of drinking water. Desalination used to be written off as an energy-intensive way to separate salt from water, used on ships as the only option for supplying fresh water, or for communities in the Middle East where both seawater and fossil fuels are plentiful. However, with new technologies reducing both the energy requirements and environmental impacts of desalination plants, and with ever greater demand for di… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Desalinization Works
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Image credit: Soda Stream Back when I was a kid growing up in England, for a brief while it seemed like every cool kid in school had a “soda stream”—a home carbonation unit that would make soda at home using nothing but tap water and concentrated syrups. My wife tells me she doesn’t remember that being a big thing over here. (“This is America baby, we just bought soda”. But things may be changing. After all, there’s got to be some big eco-advantages to cutting out all those soda and sparkling water bottles, not to mention all the gas it takes to get them to market. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is Home Carbonation the Next Big Green Thing? The Return of Soda Stream
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Photo via vauvau What things can you absolutely not live without? Pause for a second and really think about that. You can’t live without it. What did you come up with? This question when applied to our lives and, more importantly, the pausing it takes to honestly consider the answers, is at the heart of moving beyond our addiction to oil — that sticky, dangerous stuff we use to make a whole lot of things
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Moving Beyond Oil: Restoring Meaning to the Word "Necessity"
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Photo: Wikipedia , public domain. Meeting Tesla in the Middle Nissan and Tesla have very different strategies when it comes to electric cars. Tesla has decided to start upmarket because they figured that since electric cars were going to be expensive at first, you might as well make the kind of car that people would usually pay a lot of money for (sexy sports car). Nissan went the opposite route, waiting until it had done enough in-house R&D to reduce the cost of the main components, it then… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is Nissan Planning a LEAF-Based Electric Sports Car?
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photo: Geof Wilson Once we’ve gotten our priorities straight regarding reducing the massive amount of oil we use in transportation–largely because we’ve built our communities into places where most people need to drive rather than walk, bike or take public transit–there’s another conceptually big issue that needs to tackled: What to do with plastic? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When & When Not to Use Plastics Key to Kicking Oil Addiction – Plus Reducing Waste & Pollution
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Photo: Government of Ontario Always Read the Fine Print When the rebates for plug-in hybrids and electric cars were first announced by the government of Ontario , there was no word on how many applicants would be accepted, and the size of the rebates was aid to be between $4,000 and $10,000 (depending on the capacity of the car’s battery). But now that the tax measure is phasing in, the details are changing, and not for the better. Read on for details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ontario Limits Size and Quantity of EV Rebates
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