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U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama

Photo: Wikipedia , CC Huge Issue With Small Resources The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology has released a report that is critical of the U.S. for not investing enough into energy R&D, recommending that spending more than triple from $5 billion to $16 billion (not that much when you compare it to the cost of other big expenditures). The U.S. lags many other country in energy R&D investments (see the chart below), and considering how much it spends on fossil fuels, any investments that reduce that consumption w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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An Insider’s Look at the Formation of the NRDC and Birth of the Environmental Movement (Book Review)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on An Insider’s Look at the Formation of the NRDC and Birth of the Environmental Movement (Book Review)

Photo credit: NRDC You’d be hard pressed to think of anyone or anything that has done more to protect the American environment over the last 40 years than John Adams and the organization he founded, the NRDC . The National Resource Defense Council may not boast a name that rolls off the tongue, but they do boast perhaps the most impressive legacy for using the law to stand up for the environment. Adams’ new memoir, A Force for Nature tells the story of that legacy. I… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If We Build High Speed Rail, Will People Use It?

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on If We Build High Speed Rail, Will People Use It?

Photo Credit: Adam E. Moreira Is high-speed rail a good investment for Americans? That is what most leaders, political figures and advocates try to answer the majority of the time. Yet, that may be the wrong question. A better question is: would people use super fast public transit if it were built? According to A… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)

Image credit: Forum for the Future As New York’s efforts to create a livable city show , we are already seeing far-reaching changes to how our cities are organized—and not before time. But there is still an awful lot more to do. Yesterday I wrote about a new report detailing how megacities must change in the face of a population explosion . My initial post focused primarily on the six principles outlined for creating more wor… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Adopt A Robot, Made From Parts That Refused To Die

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Adopt A Robot, Made From Parts That Refused To Die

image credit Brian Marshall Brian Marshall runs a robot orphanage, repurposing used parts that “refused to give up on life just because they were being discarded.” They are quite clever and funny, if a bit expensive at hi s Etsy store, but he also creates wonderful sculpture photos of his robots in action. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tis the Season to DIY Your Gifts

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Tis the Season to DIY Your Gifts

Photo by Tim Wilson via MNN Creating personalized gifts from scratch has always been a soft spot for me. Even when the gift turns out less than stellar, it’s the fact that someone worked hard on a project with you in mind that really matters. DIYing gifts helps curb a little of the the consumerism that tends to run rampant at this time of year, and can often be done using recycled materials. Even if you don’t tend to be the crafty type, Mother Nature Network has compiled a list of homemade gift… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Operation Monkey" Aims to Kill Marauding Primates

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on "Operation Monkey" Aims to Kill Marauding Primates

Photo: jinterwas / CC They’re a roving band of macaques who’ve made a habit of treating crops in northern India as their own private buffet, making more than a few enemies in the process. Now, a militia of fed-up farmers has been formed to put an end to primates’ marauding ways, in an effort they’ve dubbed “Operation: Monkey” — but don’t let the name fool you, it won’t involve the type of hi-jinks the name might conjure. Rather, its an operation the government just approved wherein farmers are granted permission to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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E-Waste Investigation Uncovers Problem of Fake "Green" Recyclers

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on E-Waste Investigation Uncovers Problem of Fake "Green" Recyclers

Photo via Tom Raftery The Sacramento Bee has published an article that delves into the problem of e-waste — the mountains of electronic devices that have to be dealt with as consumers upgrade to ever newer, ever more numerous gadgets. However, more than just a deep look into a frustrating issue, the article uncovers ERI, an electronics recycler that claims to be green but is anything but. What ERI has done highlights a huge problem for the electronics recycling industry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Air Pollution Raises Obesity Risk For Young Animals, Regardless of Diet

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Air Pollution Raises Obesity Risk For Young Animals, Regardless of Diet

photo: Eddy Van 3000 / Creative Commons Now this research concerns itself with non-human animals (mice specifically), but it does provide interesting insight into the non-diet factors which may be at play in soaring obesity rates and the way environmental pollution influences development: A new study shows that exposure to polluted air early in life, at levels that correspond to the amoun… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia installed three Capstone C65 ICHP MicroTurbines® – a form of distributed power generation. Image credit: Capstone Turbine Now that I have succeeded in disturbing a number of engineers and environmentalists, while admitting the difficulty of even defining distributed power (see What Is Distributed Power Generation? for details), it is time to lay out what makes distributed power generation (DP) superior to expanding central power ge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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