Photo: Wikipedia , CC Might Not Be Able to Afford a Tesla Electric Car, But You Can Buy a Share It’s official, Tesla Motors will have its initial public offering (IPO) on June 29th, 2010. The electric car maker is planning to sell 11.1 million shares between $14 and $16 per share, for a total of about $178 million. It has applied to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol “TSLA.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Eric Schmuttenmaer via flickr We know that the Great Recession of 2008 & 2009 helped many nations slash their carbon emissions and lower deforestation rates–decidedly good things–but it also slashed in half the value of the voluntary carbon market , a new report by Ecosystem Marketplace shows…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Voluntary Carbon Market Value Slashed in Half by 2009 Recession
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Image via Ocean World Earlier today, executives from other major oil companies engaged in offshore drilling testified before Washington. They attempted to convince the legislators that their drilling procedures and containment plans were much safer than BP’s, and that they can be trusted to continue drilling safely in deep waters. But some disturbing details surfaced at the hearing: Especially that many of the major oil companies’ response plans in the event of a major spill were ac… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Most Major Oil Co’s Have Same Fabricated Spill "Response Plan" as BP
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Image via Energy Savvy Despite the fact that the BP Gulf spill continues, with no clear end in sight, many have already concerned themselves with the task of putting the event into the perspective of US energy consumption in general. Case in point: this graphic, which points out that the energy wasted by 75,000 homes a year equals the energy contained in the biggest oil spill in US history. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Each Year, 75,000 Homes Waste As Much Energy As Contained in Entire BP Gulf Spill
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Photo left via ecx.images-amazon.com . Photo right via news.architecture.sk . Put down that tie and back away slowly: This Father’s Day, you can do better. Here’s the inside track on this year’s perfect gift with suggestions from the men who know best: green bloggers who are also dads. See the products, services, and day trips they are coveting — and give your dad something to really celebrate this Father’s Day.
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Bat Houses and More: Green Blogger Dads Tell us What They Want This Father’s Day
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Photo by nicholas_t What exactly is the smart grid, why don’t we have it, and when will we? For most Americans, the smart grid is a mystery. That’s part of the reason why there is some bubbling hostility toward smart meter installation projects in many places, and smart grid pilot projects happening in (relatively) so few. Tom Raftery of GreenMonk is an expert on the smart grid. He took t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Understanding the Smart Grid: What’s Great and What’s Wrong with Electricity 2.0 (Video)
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Images via Quirky Last month, we caught word about Quirky’s Compostapalooza competition – a crowd-sourced contest for the best ideas in composting. Well, a winner has been announced and anyone who wants easy, clean, quick composting will love this idea. It’s a compost box that grinds up kitchen scraps with the turn of a handle and stores them until you’re ready to add them to the compost heap at the end of the day or every couple days. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Compostapalooza’s Design Contest Winner: The Keiro Apppliance
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Critics of the legitimacy of Japan’s whaling fleet’s claims that they are conducting scientific research and not just conducting a covert commercial whale hunt have long said that whale meat was being sold on the sly. Now a former whaler–calling himself Kujira-san (Mr. Whale)–has told The Guardian that it was common practice for whalers to take home 5-10 boxes and make a hefty profit. One wha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Japanese Whalers Building Homes, Buying Cars With Illegally Sold Whale Meat: Former Whaler
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter We were spending the weekend with old friends and although we all enjoy cooking and expected to do a lot of it over the three days we were together, I wanted to take something that was ready to eat when we arrived. . I had lots of spinach from the farmers’ market left over from my spinach eggdrop soup , so I made a spinach pie that we could eat warm or at room temperature. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Farmers’ Market Spinach Pie
Boreal Forests Losing the Most Ground A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) concludes that over a million square kilometers of forest were lost around the world between 2000 and 2005, and that both the U.S. and Canada had higher percentages of forest losses than even Brazil (a country long notorious for deforestation). How does it break down?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. and Canada Destroyed More Forest Than Brazil Between 2000-2005
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