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Speed Camera Lottery Could Save Lives and Fuel! (Video)

Photo: Youtube Let’s Hope it Won’t Stay Just a Commercial German car maker Volkswagen has produced a series of ads based on “fun theory”, the simple idea that if something is fun or if there’s something in it for you, you are more likely to do it than if you’re just “supposed to”. It’s pretty simply psychology, yet if we look at everything we’re supposed to do, that fact is very rarely taken into account by authorities. One of the ads is about a special speed camera (see the video below): Like a regular speed camera, it can fine drivers who go over the speed limit, but there’s also a carrot… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forget About Melting Steel with Sunshine… How About Rocks? (Video)

Image: Youtube 2 Square Meters of Sunlight is All it Takes Last summer, I wrote about a cool video that showed how a solar oven could be used to melt steel . It’s a good demonstration of just how much solar energy is hitting the Earth (it’s one thing to know abstractly, but it’s much more memorable to see it in action). Here’s another very cool video in the same vein, except that they don’t just stick to steel (which has a melting point of approx. 1,370 °C/2,500 °F). The best quo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forget About Melting Steel with Sunshine… How About Rocks? (Video)

Climate Counts iPhone App Ranks Companies for Sustainable Holiday Shopping

Image via Climate Counts Practically everyone has entered the frenzied shopping season. But rather than grabbing the first good deal offered on whatever’s on the holiday list, Climate Counts is offering an easy way to buy from the most eco-conscious businesses around thanks to their new iPhone app and handy pocket guide. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s First Biofueled Passenger Flight to Launch Next Year

Photo: Willamor Media , Flickr, CC There’s been plenty of talk and a lot of testing when it comes to various kinds of biofuel-powered airplanes. So far, biofuels have been relegated to the runways for experimental flights. But in 2011, the German airliner Lufthansa plans to launch the world’s first biofuel passenger flight. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NRDC Assesses Biochar – Says High Hopes For Carbon Storage Premature

photo: Soil Science / Creative Commons There’s been lots of back and forth in the past year on biochar , ranging from research showing it has huge potential for absorbing carbon emissions on one side, to uncertainty about its potential, to outright hostility towards the enthusiasm shown towards it–and all from people with good environmental credentials. A new report fr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Short Animated Films About Green Stuff (Videos)

Images: Story of Coal, Story of Electronics, Brief History of Fossil Fuels, What Happens When the Oil Runs Out And the Oscar for Best Green Short Goes to… One of the great things about the web is how inexpensive it now is to reach a lot of people. Not so long ago you would have needed to have access to either a printing press, a movie or television studio, or a radio station. Now, anybody can create a website and publish text, or use digital tools to create videos that can then be hosted on a variety of free sites (youtube, Vimeo, etc). Here’s a compilation of some great short animated films about … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Farmigo Streamlines CSA Systems So Farmers Can Profit

Image via Farmigo CSAs, or Community Sustained Agriculture programs , are an excellent way to ensure that the bounty of a farm reaches our kitchen tables. Consumers subscribe to a farm or group (either annual, monthly, or per-box) and receive boxes of freshly harvested, usually organic foods. However, for the farmers, sometimes CSAs can be problematic — either in how much work it is to stay organized with subscriptions and deliveries or losing out on potential profits because of CSA price caps. However, one new sta… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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International Tuna Meeting Fails to Reduce Bluefin Quotas – Short-Term Profits Trump Sustainability

Japan is overwhelmingly the world’s largest market for bluefin tuna, photo: Stewart Butterfield / Creative Commons Nearly two years ago to the day I wrote the headline New Bluefin Tuna Quota Levels Are A “Mockery of Science” and today the exact same thing still holds true: The International Commission for the Conservation… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Awesome Green DIY Projects from MAKE

Photo via Barto MAKE is one of my absolute favorite resources for inspiration and clever ideas for projects. They’ve looked through their archives and made a list of some of the best green projects they’ve seen, and we love their list. Check out these green projects by Marc de Vinck…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wireless Charging Market To Hit $11.8 Billion by 2020

Photo via jeffk Wireless charging has been growing in popularity the last couple years. This last Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed several promising companies , and there are sure to be more in January at the next show. The idea of charging devices without having to actually plug them into the wall each time is appealing to many consumers, and the market seems to be revealing this trend.

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Wireless Charging Market To Hit $11.8 Billion by 2020