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China to Have 200+ Million Cars by 2020!
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When Daniel covered the Terrafugia, he wrote “the rest of us here now on a heating planet could use more efficient cars and airplanes, not wacky combos of the two built for the super rich.” It is interesting that nothing has changed in 80 years since this vehicle, shown in Modern Mechanix, was proposed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Flying Cars Just Around the Corner for Eighty Years
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Photo via jkirkhart35 The blue pimpernel, cousin of the more famous (and common) scarlet pimpernel, was found growing on a farm in south Worcestershire in the UK. But where normally this might send a troop of conservationists hauling out to make sure no plows turn the plant under, this particular farm is actually the perfect places for a rare botanical species. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rare Blue Flower Discovered Blooming on British Farm
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photo: Stevie Rocco via flickr Once again, law enforcement professionals seem to conflate activism and extremism: A new piece over at Pro Publica reveals that a confidential intelligence bulletin by the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security warns that “environmental extremists” are a threat to the energy sector and references opponents to
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Are Pennsylvania’s Fracking Opponents Really Environmental Extremists? Police Think So
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Satellite photo taken May 24th, 2010, by NASA. Photo: NASA , CC. This Story is Far From Over! The bad news about the BP oil spill aren’t over. Researchers have taken soil samples from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and discovered that a lot of the oil that some thought had evaporated or dissipated has actually just settled on the sea floor. Samples taken by the science vessel Oceanus show that the oil can be found for dozens of miles in all directions around the busted well location…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Thick Layer Of Oil Discovered on Gulf of Mexico Seafloor
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Image credit: Exquisitur (Creative Commons) As I noted in my posts on soil versus dirt , and on skeptics, deniers and denialists , words matter. So when I received an email arguing that it was “time to end nuclear socialism”, my first reaction was to note the strategic brilliance with which the debate was framed. (Socialism clearly being such a dirty word here in North America.) The actual argument makes for prett… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Time to End Nuclear Socialism?
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Image credit: Flight.org Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary may come close to rivaling arch-climate skeptic Lord Monckton when it comes to craziness. Having ranted and raved about eco-loonies in the past , he’s now laying firmly into the scientific community—labeling man-made climate change as “horses**t”, and claiming that the scientific community… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ryanair Boss: Scientists Have "Nearly Always Been Wrong"
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Images via Tuvie Well here’s one very interesting (and sketchy way) to charge your air purifier. Design student Yuan Gu must have a really hyperactive cat to dream up the Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier. To make a product that is both “eco friendly and energy saving,” Gu decided it would be great if the energy your cats put into playing with balls of wool were instead put toward batting this thing around the living room floor, drawing up enough charge to filter out the dust…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Humidifier and Air Purifier Powered by… Your Cat?
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photo via flickr My home state of California couldn’t do it, but border town Brownsville, TX, has taken action and banned plastic bags. The ban goes into effect January 5. Shoppers who forget their reusable bags can buy plastic bags for an extra buck. Pharmacies, hardware stores and dry cleaners are exempt. Plastic bags are a petroleum product and can take over 1,000 years to biodegrade. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brownsville, Texas Bans Plastic Bags
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OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues . Image credit: USEIA Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010. The USA is a big OPEC customer. Separately. according to projections by Suite101 , total US crude oil imports will cost an estimated $181 bi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak
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