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China in Denial About Becoming World’s Largest Energy Consumer

photo: Dieter Weinelt via flickr China passed the United States in terms of national carbon emissions a couple years back, and according to new data from the International Energy Agency also just passed the US in terms of total energy consumption. That doesn’t quite fit with China’s cultivated image of still being a developing economy in need of special international privileges, so it’s denying that the IEA figures paint a true picture. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Creates National Ocean Council to Oversee Protection of Our Oceans, Coasts & Great Lakes

photo: Shannon Bullard/ Go San Diego Card Blog via flickr President Obama has signed an executive order adopting the final recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force , creating a National Ocean Council charged with overseeing national policy providing stewardship over the United Sta… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ugandans Struggle for Solutions to Fix War-Torn Water Infrastructure

Image via YouTube video Uganda has been the site of severe turmoil since civil war broke out in the early 1980s. For the last few years, people have been returning home to northern Uganda to find that their water infrastructure is in ruins. However, with organizational help from Action Against Hunger, ACF International and financial support from European and American governments, residents are being empowered … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How is Super Mole Blood Tied to Gene Therapy?

Photo of an Eastern mole by S. Aquaticus Scientists have discovered that moles can survive underground for long periods of time because they have super hemoglobin. They have a more efficient means of transporting carbon dioxide. This allows them to burrow below the surface of the earth and, even cooler, be able to re-breathe their old air. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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14 Apps Connecting You to the Gulf Oil Spill

Image via The Leak In Your Hometown App developers are always quick to hop on a new trend, especially one as big as the Gulf Oil Disaster. But that also means a plethora of tools and apps for all of us, from the serious news to snarky political elbowing. For staying up on the latest updates, becoming a citizen reporter, or simply grasping the impact of the spill, here are 14 apps that connect you to one of the greatest ecological disasters the US has ever experienced. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: Why Should I Switch My House Over To All-Electric?

A Heat Exchanger. Image Source: Shandchem Dear Pablo: We had a home energy audit and the auditor suggested that we switch our space and water heating from natural gas to electric to become more sustainable. Why is this? The changes suggested by your building auditor can indeed be part of a comprehensive strategy to make your home “carbon neutral.” Since the majority of utility-supplied electricity comes from fossil fuel sources and is by no means “carbon neutral” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Different Conservative View on Climate Change: It’s Happening

One of 52,400 Google images critical of Al Gore and Climate Change The one time I met Jonathan Kay he was rude and arrogant, and he often comes off that way in his column in the National Post. But unlike the Posties in the back pages who are rabid climate change deniers, Kay makes a lot of sense in his article Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause. Like many of us at TreeHugger, he despairs about how the climate change issue has become politicized into a left/right split, but he … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tiny Transformer Kitchen Occupies Less Than 10 Square Feet When Closed

The challenge in the “1, 2, 3… easy kitchen!” competition shown in Designboom was to design a kitchen that occupied less than 1 square meter (about 10 square feet). Kristin Laass and Norman Ebelt of burg giebichenstein: hochschule fur kunst und design halle have done it with real style. Opened, it has everything: a fridge, sink, induction range and oven…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noted Climate Scientist Stephen H. Schneider Passes

photo via Stanford Today, the world lost Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who has for decades built the foundational case that the planet is warming and that action is needed–now. Schneider, 65, shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, and was a heavyweight climatologist, who Gore called, “A prolific researcher and author, co-founder of the journal Climatic Change, and a wonderful communicator, his contributions to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spain Emerges as Solar Energy Leader

Image credit: GOOD GOOD observes Spain’s emergence as the world’s new solar energy leader. They have built a new solar energy plant and already have plans for solar and wind energy development through 2013. This is great news since developing sustainable energy practices are important to solving our current energy crisis. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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