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The Weight of 74 Golden Gate Bridges Wasted in Food. Each Year. In USA Alone.

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Not a grocery shop — inside a supermarket dumpster. Photo: Warren McLaren / inov8 We mentioned the other day that the WorldWatch Institute was putting their wonderful WorldWatch magazine out to pasture. But doesn’t mean they won’t continue to deliver a searing look at our planet’s problems and solutions. At the start of this year they released their State of the World 2010 book, which was subtitled Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability. It… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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High-Tech Fire Hydrants Will Tap Into Smart Grid to Save Water

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Photo via D’Arcy Norman When talking about the water crisis, we usually pinpoint things like low-flow shower heads and drought tolerant landscaping in households, or the overuse of water in manufacturing or agriculture. But what gets far less attention is the water infrastructure right under our city streets. Aging, cracked, rife with problems, urban water systems are the source of a significant amount of water loss, with leaks going undetected and unfixed for ages. But there’s one barely-noticed tool that can help us change all that — the fire … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Your Cell Phone Fueling Rape and Murder in the Congo?

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Photo by Mark Craemer It’s easy to remove ourselves from the conflicts in the Congo. We can sit back with our computers on our laps and read about the war in the DRC, taking note of the atrocities and shaking our heads. But in at least a small way, the computers on our laps, the cell phones in our pockets, the gadgets we use day in and day our are helping fund the deadliest war in the world. Luckily, the blogosphere is recently abuzz with talk about conflict minerals, thanks to an op-ed piece in the New Y… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lord Monckton Claims Non-Scientists Shouldn’t Talk Climate Science?

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Image credit: The Age From my post on why consensus matters in climate science to my follow up on why blogging is not science , it’s common for climate skeptic commenters to claim that any reference to the majority of expert scientific opinion on climate change is simply an “appeal to authority”…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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