photo via flickr Notoriously publicity shy Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic known for saying outrageous things about climate change , has seemingly changed his tune. Yesterday, the UK’s Guardian reported that Lomborg makes a new claim in his upcoming book: we should confront climate change now and invest huge sums for technology development and deployment. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lomborg: Just Kidding. We Do Need Climate Action Now
Image credit: Peak Moment TV A few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability —exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened? Having grown everything from annual vegetables to grains, Scott made a realization that it would be almost impossible to grow all his family’s food in such a small space. But rather than give up, or scale back his ambitions, he launched a CSA to feed other families … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Self-Sufficiency Versus a Backyard CSA (Video)
All Images: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released a follow up document to their 2005 publication, Setting Up and Running a School Garden. The newer manual is a School Garden Teaching Toolkit, comprising a bunch of step-by-step lessons to “engage learners actively and encourage them to observe and experiment.” Both manuals are very comprehensive, each being around the 200 page mark. As the FAO’s Growing Connection
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Setting Up and Running a School Garden. Toolkits for Teachers
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All Photos: The Hemp Builder The house you don’t need to render, plaster, paint or insulate. The house with the building material that you can grow on one hectare (2.5 acres) of land. The same building material you can process yourself with standard machinery available at your hardware store. The house whose walls lock away over 110 kg (240 lb) of carbon per cubic metre. Impressive claims. What is this boastful house made of? Hemp. The whole hemp. We’ve talked before about hemp bales and even hempcrete. But this appears to be something new…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Whole Hemp House
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photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey
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Image: EPA Making Guzzlers Stand Out Even More One way to nudge people into making better decisions is to make it easier to compare different products and services. There are still many people out there who have no idea if 16 MPG is a good or bad, but if they saw a big red “D” on a sticker, they might be tempted to find a vehicle with a better grade. That’s the goal behind new fuel economy labels proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT). Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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EPA & DOT Propose Clearer, More Colorful Fuel Economy Labels
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photo: sbamueller via flickr Contradicting previous industry- and government-backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that high levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and other pollutants are not naturally occurring. As Cree elders have said for some time,
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Tar Sands Projects Responsible for Water Pollution in Alberta’s Rivers – Despite Industry Claims to Contrary
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Photo: Flickr, CC Negawatts Strike Back The immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being optimally efficient. Only about 8% of the light emitted by a LCD’s backlight makes its way out, and the rest is wasted. But that might be about to change thanks to a new filter that could boost that efficiency by more than 400% and allow around 36% of the light to pass through. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Filter Could Make LCDs >400% More Efficient
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image: IPCC Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science , an independent review of the way the organization operates says “fundamental reforms” are needed– among those are shorter terms for the organization’s chair and establishing an executive director to oversee operations and act as spokesperson. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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IPCC Did Good Work But Needs Fundamental Reforms, Review Concludes
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Image credit: OrganicNation I’ve been thinking a lot about scale recently. “Small is Beautiful” has long been a rallying cry of the green movement—and yet in light of the massive challenges we face, I’m thinking we shouldn’t turn our backs on “big” either. It’s true, my post on more sustainable industrial monoculture was met with derision from some, and I’m not sure my follow up
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Organic as the Private School of Food? Big Organics, Affordability and Integrity (Video)
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