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First Ever UL Certification for Solar Power Goes to Flexible Panels

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via CNET, credit SoloPower While flexible solar panels are not as efficient as standard solar panels you see on the rooftops of homes, they are increasing in popularity since they can be used in applications where conventional solar panels simply aren’t practical. And now, one company has pulled ahead with the first ever Underwriters Laboratories certification in the PV solar industry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Ryan Air CEO Lets Fly on Climate Change (Video)

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How Will Food Security Be Affected by Climate Change, Energy Constraints & Water Availability?

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photo: Yvon via flickr From August’s Russian heatwave and fires causing staple food prices to rise , to fears that expanded biofuel production will take agricultural land out of production , to concerns over food miles and the absurdity of local

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Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time

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Image via SkyTruth We know that bottom trawling — the practice of dragging a net across the sea floor to collect anything and everything in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ

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photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site–the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN’s message: “EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump On Appalachia.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bamboo Pavilion: Low-Cost Communal Living

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images: Esan Rahmani and Mukul Damle Forget yesterday’s commune — ‘communal living’ nowadays can refer to any number of situations — from pricier market housing to low-income developments , or to temporary applications like refugee shelters . Falling somewhere in between is this Bamboo Pavilion — a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Beached Whale Defies Death From ‘Lethal Injection’

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Globo For the last six days, a 50-foot-long right whale has been stranded on a beach in Brazil, still alive but too weak to return to the sea – and for the last six days, authorities have been puzzled with what to do with it. Teams of biologists and volunteers have worked tirelessly, bucketing water over the 40-ton animal to keep it comfortable, although animal rights activists s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forecasting an Ecosystem’s Point of No Return

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Image credit: Matt Callow /Flickr Most conservation, unfortunately, is reactive. Though improved assessment methods make this reaction more timely, plans are crafted after habitats are degraded and species are recieve protected status after their populations have demonstrated critical declines. New research, however, could help conservationis… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Objects to Its Airlines Having to Pay For Their Pollution in EU Emission Trading Scheme

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Josh Beasley via flickr This one’s been inbound for a couple of years now, the United States objecting to the European Union’s plans to make foreign airlines start paying for the carbon emissionsM from landing and taking off there from 2012, but as the New York Times reports, the US is upping the pres… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fight for Your Right to Drink Bottled Water (Video)

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Photo via Life Dynamix There’s (thankfully) been a lot of attention focused lately on the behind-the-scenes influence of corporations on public policy and opinion — see Jane Mayer’s great expose of the extremely powerful billionaire Koch brothers for a good example. Over the last year we’ve seen corporations sponsor “grassroots” movements fighting health care reform, the oil industry back anti-climate legislation

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