Image credit: White House As Brian has noted, In Ohio, the new Governor says “Passenger rail is not in Ohio’s future, That train is dead.” High speed rail is under attack by Republicans across the country. As people line up to get irradiated by the pornoscatter machines, or felt up by the TSA inspectors, perhaps they should give a thought to writing to the leaders they just elect… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Prabhati Devi gathers fodder for her buffalo in Rajasthan. Image: Ami Vitale/Oxfam Ask Ajantha about the effects of climate change on her village in southern India and she can give you numbers—estimates of how far the shoreline has moved inland and how many fish species are disappearing from local waters—but she can also tell you how her lifestyle and family life, and longstanding traditions throughout the region, are all changing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Cornell University I seem to be on somewhat of a worm compost kick of late. I’ve written about worm composting becoming big business , and I followed this up with a look at how worm compost can help suppress plant diseases . When I wrote this second post, Allison Jack—one of the researchers mentioned in the article—contacted us to alert us to the wealth of resource… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Cleantech Open The Cleantech Open , one of the most prestigious events for start-ups in the industry, has announced the winners of this year’s competition. The winners earn the sort of recognition from venture capitalists that most start-ups only dream of. The winners this year highlight some of the best ideas of the year, and we are likely to see them in the marketplace in the near future. Check out who they are — from algae-based water treatment to super-light building materials… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From Pure Water to Better Building Materials, Cleantech Open Awards Newest Wave of Green Thinkers
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Images credit Building Science TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! Graham wants to build the greenest apartm… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Much Insulation Can You Put Into An Old Building?
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Photo: American Food Store British economist and lead climate negotiator Lord Nicholas Stern (of the famous Stern report ) issued something of a warning to the United States last week. He effectively argued that if the US fails to address climate change by enacting a pricing scheme to reign in carbon emissions, we could face an international trade boycott on American-made goods. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A search conducted by arachnid enthusiasts led to the rediscovery of Clubiona rosserae . Photo credit: woodleywonderworks / Creative Commons Originally discovered in the 1950s, the Rosser’s sac spider was elusive—evading even a photograph—until 10 years ago when sightings stopped completely. With its wetland habitat shrinking, researchers and enthusiasts feared that the spider may have gone extinct . Now, a new sighting of the spide… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Extinct’ Spider Rediscovered in England
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Mention social good to generation Y — or other generations for that matter — and the focus easily turns to high tech innovation. It’s an angle emphasized by big events like TED , which emit a steady feed of technology-heavy ideas. Take the recent Rolex Young Laureates Program , the watch company’s newly-inaugurated register of some of the most promising projects making a difference in the world. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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To Determined Young Social Innovators, the Highest Tech Is Low
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Back in the 60’s the Nutone Kitchen Center was all the rage in high-end kitchens; The idea was that you would have a pile of different appliances and one motor to serve them all, built into the kitchen counter. But in the end it didn’t make a lot of sense as electric motors were relatively cheap. But what if you do not want to use electricity? The mechanism is going to take up a lot more space and perhaps be more expensive. Designer Christoph Thetard has designed the R2B2 “to reduce private electric waste production.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pedal Powered Kitchen Center An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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The Ganges River Delta. Photo credit: Image courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will ever experience. Besides their unique position, these satellites are capable of discerning details the human eye misses. The intense detail captured by the Landsat-7 satellite—and the thermal gradients illustrated by
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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art (Slideshow)
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