A warning to the regular Treehugger reader: Kindly prepare to restrain yourself from slamming your head onto your desk. A strong majority of Americans “hold President Obama and Congress responsible for rising gas prices,” according to the Hill. A new Gallup poll reveals that 65% believe that Obama and congressmen …
puuikibeach/CC BY 2.0. Wind turbines at the Kahuku Wind Farm. In January 2008, Hawaii announced its plan to produce 70% of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030. So far, it has built wind farms on the islands of Molokai and Lana, and transported the bulk of the energy …
Jamie Kennedy’s Canning at Brewers Feast 2011/ Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 Back in 2005, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon started their 100 Mile Diet, on March 21. They almost starved; as they wrote in the Tyee at the time: Then there was a lack of variety. From March 21 until …
© Alex Davies Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Delancey Underground, the proposed park beneath New York’s Lower East Side, is the way James Ramsey and Dan Barasch plan to light it. A system of fiber optic cables would collect sunlight above ground and funnel it down into the …
© Vauxhall Winner of a Police Competition It’s no secret that most vehicles in Europe are more fuel-efficient than their counterparts in the United States. But this also goes for police cars, and Scotland Yard might just be getting the most efficient yet. The Vauxhall Ampera, which is basically the …
© Alex Davies Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Delancey Underground, the proposed park beneath New York’s Lower East Side, is the way James Ramsey and Dan Barasch plan to light it. A system of fiber optic cables would collect sunlight above ground and funnel it down into the …
puuikibeach/CC BY 2.0. Wind turbines at the Kahuku Wind Farm. In January 2008, Hawaii announced its plan to produce 70% of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030. So far, it has built wind farms on the islands of Molokai and Lana, and transported the bulk of the energy …
© Vauxhall Winner of a Police Competition It’s no secret that most vehicles in Europe are more fuel-efficient than their counterparts in the United States. But this also goes for police cars, and Scotland Yard might just be getting the most efficient yet. The Vauxhall Ampera, which is basically the …
Ron Reiring/CC BY 2.0 The Los Angeles City Council apparently isn’t waiting for either the state or the Feds to enact a feed-in tariff for renewable energy—the backbone of successful renewable energy promotion in many nations, widely cited as being the most efficient method of giving deployment of clean energy …
Green, But No Sweat As awesome as the bike is as a way to get around, sometimes human muscles don’t quite pack enough oomph to deal with hilly terrain. Tour de France cyclists might see steep inclines as a challenge, but my mother would welcome a little assistance… That’s why …
FeatheredTar/CC BY 2.0 Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to use lasers to remove toner ink from paper so that it can be reused instead of being recycled or, worse, tossed in the garbage. In the future, those old TPS reports taking up space on your …
A warning to the regular Treehugger reader: Kindly prepare to restrain yourself from slamming your head onto your desk. A strong majority of Americans “hold President Obama and Congress responsible for rising gas prices,” according to the Hill. A new Gallup poll reveals that 65% believe that Obama and congressmen …
Navetas/Screen capture Smart meters are great devices for tracking your overall energy use. You can see patterns in spikes and lows depending on time of day or time of year and make changes to bring that total number down, but if you want to delve deeper into the energy use …
Jamie Kennedy’s Canning at Brewers Feast 2011/ Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 Back in 2005, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon started their 100 Mile Diet, on March 21. They almost starved; as they wrote in the Tyee at the time: Then there was a lack of variety. From March 21 until …
© Jan Beeldrijk It’s been said that the most important lessons in life are not learned in the classroom, and perhaps in no place is that more true than in the Netherlands where the act of heading to school is itself so enriching. In an age of rising gas prices …
Fiber Optic Technology Could Bring Sunlight to NYC's Underground Park
Hawaii Breaks Ground On Its Biggest Wind Power Project Yet
Scotland Yard Recruits Ampera PHEV for Police Work
Los Angeles Readies Feed-In Tariff Program – Just Needs Mayor's Signature
Hilly San Francisco to Get Shared Electric-Bikes
Laser Un-Printers Could Remove Toner Ink from Paper
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