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What’s The Carbon Footprint of a Heart Bypass? Who Cares.

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: NC Museum of History Only yesterday I lamented the fact that too many TreeHuggers are overly focused on individual carbon footprints as a metric for success . So what should I make of news from The Guardian that a heart bypass operation carries with it a huge carbon footprint—as much as two short-haul flights? Should we worry that some over zealous greenies will advocate forgoing life saving surgery in the name of stopping climate change? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Could Go Bankrupt Over Gulf Spill

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Autoblog Green So far in its coverage of the BP Gulf spill , the media has made much of the fact that the company’s daily profits are higher than its daily cleanup costs, and that after raking in $17 billion in profits last year alone, such costs are but a drop in the bucket. But that’s changing fast — and if a few other factors come to pass, it’s possible that the Gulf spill will end up bankrupting the oil giant. Speculators are calling this possible outcome the “Texaco scenari… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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After Burning for 50 Years, Chinese Coal Fires May Finally Be Extinguished

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fire in Rujigou coalfield in China. Photo: Anupma Prakash The Coal, The Coal is on Fire, Let the… China has the worst underground coal fires on Earth. These fires, which have sometimes been raging out-of-control for decades, destroy as much as 20-200 million tons of coal each year (nobody knows the exact number), which is more than Germany’s entire annual coal production. Inner Mongolia, which is a part of China and not to be confused with Mongolia, is China’s biggest coal-producing region (637 million tonnes of coal just last year), and it’s also #1 when it comes to massive coal fir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Save the Oceans, Save Ourselves! Sylvia Earle’s Top 3 Actions to Take on World Oceans Day

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Dr. Sylvia Earle displays samples to aquanaut inside TEKTITE; Photo via wikipedia Guest post by Sylvia Earle Since I began exploring the ocean as a marine scientist fifty years ago, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding history. At the same time, more has been lost. Two weeks ago, when I testified before Congress on the ecological impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I did so with perspective gained while sloshing around oiled beaches and marshes among dead and dying animals, diving under sheets of oily water and for years – a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Boom in Doom: Peak Oil in the New York Times

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Brendan Smialowski for the New York Times Peak Oil is not news to TreeHugger readers, but in the New York Times , John Leland talks to people who are preparing for food shortages, a collapse of the economy, a breakdown of civil order that many think is inevitable. He writes that “In bleak times, there is a boom in doom.” He puts the “doomers”…”somewhere between the environmental movement and the bunkered survivalists” and describes how they are packing away food, gold silver and no doubt guns and ammo for the inevitable collapse that will follow quic… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: Which Is Less Bad For The Environment: Wine Or Beer?

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Source: Riebschlager Dear Pablo: When asked if I prefer beer or wine I am neutral. To help me get off the fence I am wondering: Is beer or wine better for the environment? Like car commercials claiming that 2000 pounds of metal and plastic are “good for the environment” because it has a trunk full of batteries, the choice between beer and wine for environmental reasons is a false one. Hardly anything that we humans do on this planet can be considered good for it. T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Firefighters Cut a Chevy Volt to Pieces During Safety Training (Video)

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: GM Making Sure the Chevy Volt is Safe for First Responders A friend of mine works part-time as a firefighter in a small town, and one of the things that he’s often talking about is how dangerous airbags can be if you are a first responder. They might save the life of a car’s passengers, but if they go off while you are crawling inside a car, or if you cut up the car in the wrong pace and hit an unexploded airbag, that can cause big problems. But first responders are trained for this and are adjusting their techniques to minimize risk. The same is true with elec… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Illinois Plastic Recycler Faces Crimnal Water Pollution Charges

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Plastic scrap bundles. Image credit: AaronPennFiles Recycling businesses, especially start-ups, need to be closely watched by Federal and State authorities to avoid the misery of huge messes left, fires and explosions, and water pollution. There is a history of such problems, as we see in this example reported by Environment News Service : “Arriving at the scene, a South Elgin police officer observed an individual at the business allegedly pouring the contents of a blue plasti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GMO Crop Takes Over Thousands of Acres in Germany

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Image via Science Daily “The Biggest GM Crop Scandal in Germany to Date” A genetically modified strain of maize classified as NK603 — one that is explicitly banned in the European Union — has been unleashed in Germany. The crop has been unwittingly planted on nearly 7,500 acres so far, and is continuing to spread. The source of the contamination has not yet been determined, but it is believed that it could cost farmers millions of euros to eradicate the tenacious GMO crop…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Cove Screenings Canceled in Japan as Protests Mount (Video)

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| 1 Comment

After working diligently to raise money to translate The Cove into Japanese, and advocating like crazy to get it allowed into theaters in the country, the team behind the ground-breaking documentary is finding it is being met with little enthusiasm. Screenings across Japan are being canceled as pressure from protesters grow, saying that the documentary is a “betrayal of Japanese pride.” Unplugged, the distributor of the documentary in Japan, said that the two cancellations that occurred last week came about from concern over the safety of moviegoers and businesses nearby. Angry phone calls and picketers with bullhorns are proving effective at keeping t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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