photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the
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Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater
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It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don’t. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views and privacy but gets rid of the NIMBY factor that has paralyzed this kind of thing elsewhere. (See http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/vancouver-approves-back-lane-housing.php) Now it is coming to fruition, with the first laneway houses designed under the bylaw getting built. First up in Bryn Davidson’s Lanefab house, 710 square feet of green modern design in at the back of a house on Vancouver’s east s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Vancouver’s EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosion of Small Green Modern Design
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Image via University of Exeter The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays , but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them with as well. Researchers are looking in to how biomimicry can foil the efforts of would-be forgers, using the radiant colors created by light rather than pigment…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Butterfly Biomimicry Can Curb Counterfeiting of Banknotes
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photo: Peter Megyeri via flickr In case you’ve been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activities are causing the greatest harm. Many of these reports are jargon-filled and sometimes intimidating if you’re not used to reading them and this one is no different;
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Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system. Photo by Abri_Beluga via Flickr No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and cle… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’
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Outside Lands has given attendees a one-stop shop for all things green, from food to recycling to renewable energy to volunteerism. The festival has carved out a corner dubbed “Eco Lands” and it seems to be having an impact
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Outside Lands Music Festival offers Eco Lands as educational green-haven
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