In his post New Vertical Garden Comes to Spain’s San Vicente , Alex wrote “Vertical gardens are here to stay.” Our editor in chief wondered if there was a contradiction here with our post yesterday Fix Our Horizontal Farms Before We Go Vertical , where I questioned the merits of vertical farming. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jargon Watch: Vertical Gardens vs Vertical Farms vs Living Walls vs Green Façades
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Photos: Chinanews Too Expensive to Go Under? Go Over… What if there was a way to get most of the benefits of a subway, but without the costs of digging up all those tunnels? The Chinese company Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co. thinks it might be able to do just that with a concept it calls the 3D Fast Bus (which has also been called the straddling bus), and kind of giant bus/train that straddles the street and allows cars to drive right under it. This means that it isn’t slowed down by traffic and it doesn’t add to traffic either. Read on for more details and a video showing a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China’s ‘3D Fast Bus’ Straddles the Road So Cars Can Drive Under
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Photo: NASA , public domain. After Months of SNAFUs… Well, it’s starting to look like the Gulf of Mexico’s luck might finally be changing. Today brings a few more pieces of good news from BP about its gigantic oil spill mess. First, we learn that the relief well – which is the most permanent way to plug the oil well – is “days from completion” and could actually reach the well by this weekend. After that, a couple more weeks would be required to seal the well. The second good news is that the oil see… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Relief Well ‘days from completion’, Oil Seepage Traced to Other Well
Image via My Plastiki The Plastiki is nearing the end of it’s voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It’s been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the trek. But the Plastiki has had an important goal from the very beginning, and now, the crew is asking you for support to meet that goal. As the Plastiki boat nears the end of its journey from San Francisco to Sydney, David de Rothschild and his crew are preparing for their next part of the mission,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Climate Progress/NOAA As we’ve been reporting, 2010 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record. So far, the globe has seen its hottest spring , hottest April, hottest June , hottest January-June , in addition to breaking other records. So… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9 Countries Have Recorded Hottest-Ever Temps This Year
Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world’s forests. The data was collected from NASA’s ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites. The latter two satellites are responsible for most of NASA’s Gulf spill imagery. The data collected will help scientists understand how the world’s forests both store and process carbon. While there are many local and regional canopy maps, this is the very first global map using a uniform method for measure. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA Creates World’s First Global Forest Map Using Lasers
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Photo: Government of Ontario Always Read the Fine Print When the rebates for plug-in hybrids and electric cars were first announced by the government of Ontario , there was no word on how many applicants would be accepted, and the size of the rebates was aid to be between $4,000 and $10,000 (depending on the capacity of the car’s battery). But now that the tax measure is phasing in, the details are changing, and not for the better. Read on for details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ontario Limits Size and Quantity of EV Rebates
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Photo via Car Connection On the Lighter Side… Smart cars can be great little urban cars, but for some people, they aren’t exciting enough. Do-it-yourself enthusiasts have fixed that by doing all kinds of things to the diminutive ForTwo, including, among others, putting in a high-revving motorcycle engine in place of the tame factory diesel and putting monster tuc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smart Cars Turned Into Mini Tanks (With Video)
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All images via www.methodlaundry.co.uk Along with the great news that Method Laundry Detergent has just recently been launched in the UK (yes our clothes are already cleaner) we hear that Method’s innovative pump action laundry detergent bottle has won the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) for its behaviour changing design.
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Method Laundry Detergent’s Radical Innovation Wins International Design Excellence Award
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Watch out for curry-laden ricochets! Image credit: Kalebeul. This is one of those classic good news / bad news stories which makes you wonder if the scientists working on it have all their marbles. The ‘good news’ discovery is this: coriander and tumeric (the yellowing agent in curry) has been show to cut cow- and sheep-fart methane content by up to 40%. From coverage in
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Curry Spices In Livestock Feed Could Significantly Cut Methane Emissions
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