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UN Urges Phase Out Of Incandescent Bulbs, Guarantees Their Survival In USA

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on UN Urges Phase Out Of Incandescent Bulbs, Guarantees Their Survival In USA

Eco Piggy Lamp from Ariel Rojo Design Studio In America, Joe Barton introduced BULB, the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, to repeal legislation that set minimum efficiency standards and would phase out incandescent bulbs. He’s quoted in the New York Times: The unanticipated consequence of the ’07 act – Washington-mandated layoffs in the middle of a desperate recession – is one of many examples of what happens when politicians and activists think they know better than consumers … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists

Photo: mauricholas/ Maureen Leong-Kee , Flickr, CC Pollution has long been known to bear various impacts on animals’ reproductive behavior . But rarely is the effect so pronounced as what scientists have observed happening to bird populations that ingest the poisonous metal compound methylmercury. Researchers have found that when even low levels of the compound enter their diets, male birds choose to attempt to mate with other males, and snub females. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cloud Cover Could Be Reduced by 10% by 2100 Due to Climate Change, Increasing Temperatures

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Cloud Cover Could Be Reduced by 10% by 2100 Due to Climate Change, Increasing Temperatures

photo: Nicholas / Creative Commons While it may sound like a good thing on the face of it, cloud cover being reduced by 10% over the next 90 years due to climate change, that additional amount of blue sky could mean that we’re in for more temperature increases–that’s according to research done at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, published in the Journal of Climate …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)

Photograph via BOEMRE and NOAA OER Lophelia II expedition While the news coverage has died down, the lingering impacts on wildlife of the Deep Horizon oil spill are still being uncovered. That includes what’s going on far under the surface of the water to deep sea corals. Researchers from Penn State have discovered that seven miles southwest of the disastrous wellhead is a huge bed of dead and damaged corals, and it is suspected that the damage is thanks to the spill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Can Insurance Companies Help Halt Climate Change?

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How Can Insurance Companies Help Halt Climate Change?

Image credit: Forum for the Future Insurance isn’t the first industry people think about when talking about business and climate change. Yet from moving to pay-as-you-drive car insurance , to discounting LEED-certified buildings , we have already seen a number of ways that insurance companies can reward sustainable practices. Given the likelihood of

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Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

Marine iguanas are one of the better examples of adaptation in the Galapagos. All photos credit: Collin Dunn Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that one tiny spot, the diversity of life and living systems is truly amazing. It’s one thing to say that — “Sure,” you think to yourself, “Different islands, different stuff, I get it” — but really a totally different experience to see it for yourself. The smallest change, whether it’s the few nautical miles in between two islands, or … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Incredible Videos of Rare Big Cats Show Jaguar Fishing, Lion Cubs Swimming, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Incredible Videos of Rare Big Cats Show Jaguar Fishing, Lion Cubs Swimming, and More (Slideshow)

Photo: MacJewell / Creative Commons It’s hard enough to catch a glimpse of the world’s most elusive big cats — snow leopards, clouded leopards, jaguars, tigers — but when you consider that many of them are on the edge of extinction, your chances become slimmer every day. The 10 videos on these pages — shot both in captivity and the wild — offer an incredible look into the lives of these big cats, revealing strong personalities and more than a little curiosity towards cameras.

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How Cities Must Change Radically in Face of Population Growth

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How Cities Must Change Radically in Face of Population Growth

Image credit: Forum for the Future , used with permission. As Lloyd reminded us, Alex Steffen once posted on the now sadly discontinued Worldchanging a fabulous piece called My Other Car is a Bright Green City . And yesterday, Lloyd also posted about a bike advocate complaining about the electric car hype that is so rife in the media (this site … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Image: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr An EPA-funded study found recently that not only is the West Nile virus more prevalent in low-income neighborhoods, but that economic conditions, including personal income, are the greatest predictor of disease occurrence. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Were Rising Energy Costs the True Cause of the Recession?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Were Rising Energy Costs the True Cause of the Recession?

Photo: respres , Flickr, CC Yes, it’s conventional wisdom at this point that a bursting housing bubble was the cause of the current, ongoing recession. But a primary reason that bubble may have burst was that homeowners had less money to pay their mortgages after rising costs of gasoline and electricity ate into their budgets. This is precisely what a new report published in the journal Environment Research Letters proposes. In fact, the report points out that rising energy costs have preceded … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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