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Electric Cars to be Competitive with Gas Cars in About 5 Years, Says Steven Chu

Photos: Flickr , CC, Wikipedia , CC, Wikipedia , Public domain. Not That Far Off Dr. Steven Chu, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, has shared his informed (hard to find someone more informed than him) opinion about the future of battery electric cars at the

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Unscrupulous Coal Baron Wanted for Immediate Hire

Image: Screenshot, Craigslist You may have heard that the infamous CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship — who presided over the company during the worst mining accident in decades and racked up a list of safety violations so long it would impress BP — is going into retirement. So the question is, who’s going to step up and take his place? Who’s going to ignore droves of safety regulations… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Detroit House Goes from Arson to Art

Detroit , Michigan, the Motor City, has struggled with arson fires for years, most notably on Devil’s Night . Things have gotten better in recent years. There’s also development and residents here . But vacant and burned-out buildings are still a problem — and in the case of the

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Binishells At The Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool

Image credit: BoingBoing I would have loved to send my kids to the Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool, being built at an undisclosed location and revealed for the first time on BoingBoing. It’s being built of Binishells, which,

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Wildlife Crossing Competition Finalists Propose Amazing Bridges

Olin Studio ARC Competition; PDF here Designboom reminds us of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, , to promote “innovation in feasible, buildable context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe, efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically responsive wildlife crossings.” It is proposed for Vail, Colorado,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Do Electric Cars Still Suck? Fully Charged vs Cnet UK (Video)

Image credit: Fully Charged From checking out the Nemesis electric car , to exploring fast electric car charging , Robert Llewellyn has been an enthusiastic and outspoken advocate for electric cars. So when Rory Reid of cnet uk thoroughly trashed EVs, Robert invited him to have it out with him in person. This was the result…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Super-Tiny Chameleon Photographed in Madagascar

Photo: Will Burrard-Lucas In nature, some of the most incredible species come in the tinniest packages. While traveling in Madagascar recently, wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas happened upon this teensy-weensy Brookesia… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Spanish Woman Owns the Sun. Now A Religious Group Owns Yoga?

This doesn’t help yoga’s street cred, but nor would inaccurate claims. Photo: istolethetv /Flickr It seems these days a lot of grown-ups are forgetting that wonderful lesson we learn as kiddos in pre-K called sharing. First we had a woman in Spain who filed paperwork claiming ownership of the sun . Now, as reported in The New York Times , we have the

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Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

From a psychological and metaphysical perspective global climate change, just a symptom of the greater problem of unsustainable resource usage by humans, isn’t a problem of greenhouse gases, it’s a problem of lack of empathy and the triumph of cynicism. I’ve written about this many times on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Celebrities Strip for Turtles, Royal Green Wedding for Kate Middleton and Prince William, and More

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