Image credit: Grassroots Mapping Project, jeferonix /Flickr Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that came after, lessons have been learned—about the
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Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites and Balloons (Slideshow)
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Analysis by Berkeley Lab revealed the dominant microbe in the dispersed Gulf of Mexico oil plume was a new species, closely related to members of Oceanospirillales family. Image: Terry Hazen via Science Daily . In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps deus ex gaia moment, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report that the miles-long deep sea oil plume which resulted from the BP oil spill has essentially vanished, apparently eaten by micro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes
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Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes’ i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that “I-house has been insanely popular”, another source noted in the spring that “Apparently, Clayton’s hotcakes are sti… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Clayton’s i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines To Find The Future Of Prefab
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Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a “keynote listener” , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard Branson , there’s no doubt that governments the world over have not so far devoted too much attention to peak … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks
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“One of the greenest homes ever built” Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post: Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and cool it. It is certainly a point we have been discussing on TreeHugger for years, and it is great to see it in the Po… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Should We Really Measure Green Building?
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photo: Wikipedia Preliminary results from experiments done by University of South Florida scientists on the toxicity of microscopic drops of oil in the undersea plumes from the BP spill show that they may be more toxic than previously believed. The researchers say the dispersed oil appears to be having a toxic effect on bacteria and phytoplankton. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gulf Oil Plumes More Toxic to Microorganisms Than Thought
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Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater , more than 110 miles in diameter, was formed by the enormous impact of a meteor the size of San Francisco hitting the earth. Life on earth changed radically from that moment of impact…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tracking the Extinctions and Adaptations Around Us
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Photo via NOLA Read the AP report on the final stages of the operation that should finally permanently seal the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico , and tell me it doesn’t sound like the plot from a Jules Verne novel: “One man guides a drill more than two miles beneath the sea floor and three miles from the surface, trying to hit a target less than half the siz… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP 100 Feet Away from Permanently Sealing Blown-Out Well
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Photo via BankTrack While many countries throughout the world are seeking to boost their economies by pumping the oil within their borders , Ecuador is now set to receive $3.6 billion for leaving it in the ground. In a UN agreement that’s the first of its kind, the country has committed to not drill in its Yasuni National Park — one of the most biologically-diverse corners of the
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Ecuador Will Receive $3.6 Billion to Not Drill for Oil
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photo: Stuart Caie via flickr In case you needed more convincing that developing the United States’ oil shale deposits into liquid fuel is an environmental nightmare and a complete non-starter from an energy perspective, Western Resource Advocates has just released a new assessment of the energy return on investment for that details it all. Here ar… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What’s the Energy, Water and Greenhouse Gas Intensity of Oil Shale? High, High & High
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