Photo via PhysOrg The challenges presented by the BP spill that we occupy ourselves with are too often surface deep: the oiled birds, soiled coastline, out of work tour guides, and political wrangling make for immediately compelling, easily graspable narratives. Which is why I’ve tried throughout this ordeal to keep a focus on the damage done that most people will never see with their own eyes, things like
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Worst Damage From the BP Spill May be Done in the Deep Sea
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EDCM via Archdaily . Image by Gaston Bergeret A while back, TreeHugger looked at 7 Ways To Get Rid Of The Bed , which has turned into a favourite. While we probably spend more time in it than any other single place in our day, it also takes up more space than just about anything else in our homes. We’ve shown a lot of innovative ways to deal with the bed, from transformer furniture to loft beds to entire transforme… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Matthew McDermott To hear NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe describe it, either on WNYC or in the New York Post , the proposed rules governing the City’s hundreds of community gardens are a definite step up from the 2002 … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Community Garden Rules Offer Weaker Protection Than 2002 Agreement: NY State Lead Attorney
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Image credit: Clownfish No sooner do we hear about the massive growth in UK solar jobs as a result of feed-in tariffs , than others start asking questions about the viability of such policies. George Monbiot has already labeled the feed-in tariff a “rip off” , and a subsidy for the well off, and now a new report offers some numbers that may back up his view. So are micro-renewables just too expensive… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is Solar Too Expensive? Critics Cite Cost Per Unit of CO2 Saved
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Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul’s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an experiment — if enough residents like having their … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation
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Tucked away in the underground parking garage at Portland’s Two World Trade Center is what is purported to the nation’s first quick-charging EV (electric vehicle) station, able to take a Nissan LEAF from zero to an eighty percent charge in just 20 to 30 minutes. The new station is part of an ambitious Portland plan to put up 2,000 charging stations by 2013. Now all we … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Portland First With Quick-Charge EV Station
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Photo by Javier García Scientists Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno and Javier García have discovered a new species of monkey in the Caquetá region of southern Colombia. The region, which is part of the Amazon rainforest, had been inaccessible for years due to a violent insurgence. The violence subsided three year… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scientists Discover New Bearded Monkey
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Photo via mon2009 Pastoral life has long been emblematic of a harmonious relationship between man and nature — but that was all shattered recently in a horrific accident that killed nearly an entire flock of sheep . The incident took place on a roadway in Macedonia after a speeding… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Speeding Driver Kills Nearly an Entire Flock of Sheep
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Last week, we reported that a Republican candidate for the Colorado governorship had declared that Denver’s bike-sharing program was a threat to our personal freedoms . Since then, Tea Party-backed Dan Maes has faced some scrutiny in the press for his ambiguous statements: Along with threatening our freedoms, he claimed that bike-sharing was part of a deeper plot to turn the city into a “UN community”. When asked what he meant in a television interview, Maes had trouble explaining himself — and dug himse… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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GOP Candidate: Bike-Sharing Program May be Unconstitutional (Video)
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Lord Monckton confronted by youth climate activists during COP15, photo:
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House of Lords Tells Climate Skeptic Lord Monckton: Stop Pretending You’re One of Us
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