This CBS News video series asks: Where do the presidential candidates stand on carbon emissions and the environment?
Video 1: John Blackstone reports both candidates propose measures that sound the same, but there are differences between them….
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We have gone on about how we need a green new deal. FDR biographer Conrad Black writes from his Florida retreat about the scale of the FDR new deal; imagine if this much energy and effort was directed at insulating our buildings and rebuilding our transportation and energy systems.
“The government hired about 60 per cent of the unemployed in public works and conservation projects that planted a billion trees, saved the whooping crane, modernized …
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One never knows whether Forbes is serious or has its tongue planted in its cheek, after all Chris Buckley works there. When you read David Hirschman’s Global Warming Winners you learn that we will be booking our winter vacations in Atlantic City, travelling by boat to the North Pole, and hitting the beaches of the North Sea. Somehow I don’t think that there are a lot of winners in this. Virtually visit them all at Global Warming’s Winners via Grist
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Photo via Mooganic, and Causewired
You’re here on TreeHugger, so you likely feel a connection between being online and being active in social change. That connection - using the internet as a means of doing good for the world - is quickly spreading thanks to the rise of social networking, free-to-use platforms for websites, and a broadening number of devices through which we can connect to the web.
Tom Watson has dubbed this as being “Causewired.” In his new book by that title, Watson explores how this connection …
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photo: Drax Group
Drax Group, the owner of the eponymous 4,000 MW coal-eating behemoth power plant in North Yorkshire, England has announced that it will be partnering with Siemens to do something other than spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Wait, that was a bit harsh…
Drax Group and Siemens say that they will be building three 300 MW biomass power plants in the UK over the next couple of years. The plants will be powered by energy crops and agricultural waste from the UK, and are expected to supply about 15% of the UK’s renewable electricity by the time the all come online. That’s still a wa…
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It is tough times all around right now, and people are loath to spend money on anything. However the Huffington Post has a roundup of fall activities that are fun for a family to do, cheap or free, and you come home with something to eat. They include Neighbourhood Delicacies, where they pick up TreeHugger Bonnie’s post on rooting around the local lawns and parks for edible treats; Mushroom Hunting, but you better know what you are doing; Urban foraging for “public fruit”, and Apple picking at local orchards. Tasty and free at the<a href…
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Photo via LG
What better use for a decommissioned factory that once made energy-sucking plasma display screens than making energy-generating solar photovoltaic panels. Talk about an awesome 180.
LG is investing $168 million in retooling the plant, and work will start next month. Read on for more info on exactly what to expect from the factory. …
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Photo via sirtrentalot at flickr
Hibernating bats in Havran, near Turkey’s Aegean coast, can rest easy this winter, thanks to a decision by local authorities to hold off on pumping water into a nearby dam reservoir, an action that would have flooded their cave.
One cave near newly completed Havran Dam is thought to hold 15,000 to 20,000 bats of eight or nine different species, the second largest colony in Turkey. According to a 2005 paper in the journal Zoology in the Middle East, “the species richness and the colony sizes qualify the site as an Important Mammal Area and woul…
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Photo via The Show Must Go On
In an odd twist, Greenpeace is giving the thumbs up to Apple for their ever-greener products, and thinks that PCs would be wise to follow suit.
Now, Apple usually doesn’t do much to make Greenpeace smile. In fact, the two have often thrown punches at one another, which has been well covered on TreeHugger. So for Greenpeace to give praise, they must really mean it. And it gives a bit of extra clout to Apple’s green claims.
But wh…
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Photo via MakeLessNoise
While gadgets that claim to be greener seem to be flying at us from left and right, how can we be sure exactly where companies stand in their overall switch to better practices?
The Consumer Electronics Association has put out a new report to help us out on that front. The Environmental Sustainability and Innovation in the Consumer Ele…
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