Don’t click this link if you are sick of me pointing you to mentions of the climate change in NC study that I participated in, this time with the mention at Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News.
At lunch on Friday after the conference where I presented a summary of this research it was mentioned that […]

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West Coast Green – when they billed it as the biggest green building conference on this coast, they weren’t lying. It was huge an the lineup of speakers was excellent, though they only had about 4 tracks a day with at least 40 different sessions going on at the same time so there was no […]

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Ethanol’s boom stalling as glut depresses price:
The ethanol boom of recent years — which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America — may be fading.
Only last year, farmers here spoke of a biofuel gold rush, and they rejoiced as prices […]

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At the Clinton Global Initiative this week, Ecuador pledged to forgo the development of the country’s largest oil reserve in the Amazon basin’s most diverse rainforest located below Yasuni National Park, also home to the Tagaeri-Taromenani indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
The nation will be essentially kissing an estimated $4.6 million in oil […]

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If mod is your style but dropping $150 on a birdhouse doesn’t do it for you, here’s an awesome, green alternative. Courtesy of two straight lines comes this great DIY project: take a gourd, drill a hole in it, hollow it out, slap some no-VOC paint on it, add a branch and call it good. […]

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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers
there they blow, there they blow, […]

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Welsh uber-designer Ross Lovegrove has been dabbling in solar design for awhile — his path & garden lighting and solar car prototype are just a few we’ve seen — and now he’s scaling it up to light a whole street. Solar Tree takes a page from its cellulose brethren, “growing” skyward to maximize solar exposure. […]

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With flying being one of the greatest contributors to growing carbon emissions, airlines are scrambling to find ways to clean up their image – carbon offsets, recycling, zero emissions targets – but it is up to some scrutiny and debate as to whether these measures will be effective.
Nevertheless, it shouldn’t stop the airlines from trying. […]

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ChooseRenewables, which formally launched earlier this week, features several personalized eco-tools - including the MyEnergy Analyst and MyWatts Renewables Estimator - which allow consumers to evaluate their carbon footprint and view location-based solar and wind energy solutions (which, unfortunately, rarely come cheap). In addition, consumers also…

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Last year we covered the launch of Sunpark Corporation, an organization looking to build Canada’s first solar park, and offering members of the public the opportunity to sponsor individual cells at CAN$25.00 per unit. Since our first post, it seems that the organization has been going from strength-to-strength, attracting an impressive list of major […]

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