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» World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner
03/12/10 11:00 from TreeHugger
Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com ’s Naturally Green section. Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a s..

» GE offshore turbines to shed gearboxes
03/12/10 10:20 from Wind Energy Investing
SiliconIndia reports that General Electric plans… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Memory Marathon is the Start of London Olympics 2012
03/12/10 10:10 from TreeHugger
Images by B. Alter from the film Memory Marathon For all of those suffering Olympic withdrawal (that means most Canadians) we bring you the Memory Marathon. It’s part of the cultural offerings of London’s upcoming summer Olympics in 2012 …

» Ford’s New Super Duty Diesel Pickup Is Its Cleanest Ever
03/12/10 09:00 from Gas 2.0
If you don’t like big trucks loaded with torque, you should just stop reading now. But if you’re like me, you love you some torque and towing capacity. The 2011 Ford Super Duty truck has best in class towing capacity and payload hauling, a..

» Fisker Says It Could Build 100,000 Electric Cars Annually At Delaware Plant
03/12/10 08:00 from Gas 2.0
Fisker Automotive is one of the electric car hopefuls that has won many of us over with their sleek, sexy visions of what an electric car should look like. The company has received hundreds of millions in government funding , and recently ..

» Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs
03/12/10 02:09 from TreeHugger
Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for ‘organic’ clothing appears to be ending. Poverty has become ..

» Broad Mountain challenges wind ordinance changes
03/12/10 02:05 from Wind Energy Investing
RepublicanHerald.com reports that Broad Mountain… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Scientists Aim to Learn More About Tiny Anteaters
03/12/10 01:25 from TreeHugger
Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest , other than the fact that they’re tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning mo..

» Carn Hill wind farm construction approved
03/12/10 00:57 from Wind Energy Investing
Newtownabbey Times reports that the Carn Hill… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Ener1 Sees “A Lot to Prove in 2010,” Banking on Loan
03/12/10 00:57 from Earth2Tech
The “best year yet” — that’s how Ener1 CEO Charles Gasseinheimer described how his company fared in 2009 during a call with shareholders this afternoon following the release of Ener1’s latest financial results. Competitor..

» Chevy Volt undergoes suspension durability test in new video
03/12/10 00:48 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Chevrolet Chevy Volt suspension testing – Click above to watch the video after the jump Right now, no amount of baksheesh will get you behind the wheel of the Chevrolet Volt . Still, some people are getti..

» Are you starving for change?
03/11/10 23:48 from Clean Break
I received an e-mail today from a guy in Waterloo, Ontario, who is on a hunger strike until the opposition federal Liberals or Conservative government publicly commit to passing Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, which woul..

» Report: Chrysler reconsidering light-duty diesel for Ram
03/11/10 23:31 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Diesel , Chrysler , Dodge During last summer’s bankruptcy proceedings, New Chrysler chose not to pick up the contract it had previously entered with Cummins to procure light-duty diesel engines for its line of Ram pickup truck..

» Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
03/11/10 23:06 from EcoGeek.org
A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads. The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and f..

» Braille Batteries Enter American Le Mans Racing Series
03/11/10 22:44 from Gas 2.0
If you really want to see the future of everyday transportation, you have to look no farther than the racing series happening right around the corner. As much for entertainment and competition as it is a testbed for new technology, the hig..

» Today on Planet 100: Arctic Methane Leak (Video)
03/11/10 22:35 from TreeHugger
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» Concentrated Solar Power Isn’t Just for Deserts, It Could be for Walls Too
03/11/10 22:32 from EcoGeek.org
Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it’s referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse’s Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this..

» Ingreenuity is Poet’s way to make ethanol more environmentally friendly
03/11/10 22:15 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Ethanol , Manufacturing/Plants Ethanol company Poet (formerly Broin) today announced something called Ingreenuity , a “new initiative to enhance the environmental performance of ethanol.” The first step in the process is to de..

» Utilities Not Ready for Coming Customer Engagement from Smart Grid
03/11/10 21:56 from Earth2Tech
If the latest consumer backlash over smart meters in Texas wasn’t enough of an indicator that utilities are facing a communication problem around the smart grid, here’s another: a report from research firm IDC Energy Insights, and sponsore..

» All Together Now: Green Modern Cooperative Living in Australia
03/11/10 21:24 from TreeHugger
Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew Lecky So many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court..

» Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry
03/11/10 21:19 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantl..

» Daily Sprout
03/11/10 21:18 from Earth2Tech
Feed-in Tariff on the Way on SoCal: The country’s largest municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, “is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use,” with proceeds earmarked for r..

» GM Exec Admits Volt is Stepping Stone to All-Electric Cars
03/11/10 21:08 from Gas 2.0
As we’ve talked about on these pages before, the battle for the hearts and minds of the next generation of car purchasers is starting. By the end of the year many major auto manufacturers will have some kind of electric vehicle for sale on..

» Tesla Motors battery pack goes to work… in a walk-in van
03/11/10 20:57 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , USA , Daimler Freightliner Custom Chassis walk-in van – Click above for high-res image gallery That Daimler deal with Tesla Motors is defying early skepticism and starting to bear fruit in the shape..

» Wind Energy America requests interconnection
03/11/10 20:52 from Wind Energy Investing
Market Watch reports that Wind Energy America has… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Rarest Flower in the World Blooms in the UK (PICS)
03/11/10 20:26 from TreeHugger
Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China..

» Reading Tea Leaves: Future Biofuels in the Bottom of a Cup?
03/11/10 20:21 from Gas 2.0
Here in the US, tea is essentially a niche product, falling way behind coffee in terms of popularity. But in places like the Middle East, Europe, and Asia , tea far surpasses coffee as a national past time. In 2008 alone, the world product..

» Riding in New York with Village Voice Columnist Michael Musto (Video)
03/11/10 20:11 from TreeHugger
“Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it’s becoming mainstream” Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist Read the full story on TreeHugger

» Report: Japan’s fuel cell market could grow 99-fold by 2025
03/11/10 19:56 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hydrogen , Green Daily , Japan The Big Japanese Three automakers are all working on fuel cell vehicles . This is no surprise, especially to anyone who remembers that, between 1998 and 2004, two out of every three fuel cell pat..

» After Smart Grids, Smart Sewage? Urine-Separating NoMix Toilet Gets Thumbs-Up in 7 European Countries
03/11/10 19:40 from TreeHugger
NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world..

» Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks
03/11/10 19:37 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficul..

» Used Vehicle Listing
03/11/10 19:04 from HybridCars.com
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» Geneva 2010: DOK-ING XD concept, urban EV from Croatia
03/11/10 18:58 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in DOK-ING XD concept – Click above for high-res image gallery When you think of the auto industry, there are two names that surely will not come to mind. DOK-ING and Croatia. The last time most Americans thought of Cr..

» How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market
03/11/10 18:49 from Earth2Tech
Not too long ago, Toyota reigned as the seemingly untouchable hybrid leader. That dominance — in terms of both market share (50 percent of hybrids sold in the U.S.) and mindshare (no alt-fuel vehicle on the market is better known or ..

» Aurica Motors Plans To Keep California NUMMI Plant Open With Electric Cars
03/11/10 18:45 from Gas 2.0
In 1984, General Motors and Toyota joined forces to produce cars together at a single plant in Fremont, California. Called the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., the joint venture gave Toyota its first manufacturing base in the U.S., and..

» Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products
03/11/10 18:44 from TreeHugger
World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit: Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table..

» TradeWind plants fourth Midwest met tower
03/11/10 18:31 from Wind Energy Investing
North American Wind Power reports that approval… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Should Obama Send His Science Team on a National Campaign to Explain Climate Science?
03/11/10 18:17 from TreeHugger
Photo via LimJunYing It’s been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science , both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost. So h..

» Hysteria Trumps Reason in Prius Acceleration Story
03/11/10 18:15 from HybridCars.com
This week’s story of a San Diego man and his runaway Prius marks the turning point on when Toyota’s unintended acceleration issues crossed over into hysteria. While observers cast doubt on the truthfulness of the high-profile incident, mor..

» Car-puccino takes old coffee grinds for a drive
03/11/10 18:02 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Emerging Technologies , Green Daily , UK There are a fair number of puns and clever sayings available to lead off this post. The Daily Mail went with saying this particular car “won’t take the grind out of commuting.” We, thou..

» World’s Scientists to Carry Out Independent Review of IPCC
03/11/10 17:40 from TreeHugger
Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from aca..

» Would You Like A Coffee To Go? “Scirocco-ccino” Storms Europe
03/11/10 17:12 from Gas 2.0
Much hilarity and cracking of bad puns has greeted the arrival of a coffee powered car over in the UK.  “The Car-puccino” which runs on “expressos” and needs its own “filter lane.” Groan. The car used wa..

» Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity
03/11/10 16:59 from TreeHugger
photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of ..

» Aurica Motors wants to keep NUMMI open to make electric cars
03/11/10 16:51 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants Who the heck is Aurica Motors ? An under-the-radar electric car company with big dreams, that’s who. A company that, if it gets its way, will turn the soon-to-be-closed NUMMI plant in Fremont,..

» Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t
03/11/10 16:50 from TreeHugger
Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food , which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients..

» Vaporizing biomass with sunlight — cool, eh?
03/11/10 16:48 from Clean Break
Check out this story of mine in MIT Technology Review about Sundrop Fuels , a Colorado startup that’s trying to commercialize a process that uses the sun to gasify biomass, instead of burning a portion of the biomass itself to drive the ga..

» Study Finds Large Animals in India are Facing Extinction Even in Protected Areas
03/11/10 16:45 from TreeHugger
The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928. Now, there are more than 500 in the country ranging from dedicated tiger and bird reserves to more general areas i..

» Geothermal Might Be Heating Up, But Still Tepid for Investors
03/11/10 16:45 from Earth2Tech
Geothermal power projects are “heating up” reports Jenn Kho due to increased backing from the U.S. government and new business models bringing projects online more quickly than in previous years. Kho cites numbers from the Geot..

» Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator
03/11/10 16:30 from TreeHugger
Images: Studied Impact It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building..

» Broadwind opens gearbox services
03/11/10 16:22 from Wind Energy Investing
Recharge reports that Broadwind Energy has set up… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Don’t Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming
03/11/10 16:13 from TreeHugger
photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum –like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a te..

» Scoripion King: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Power Stroke Diesel is cleanest ever
03/11/10 16:04 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Diesel , Ford 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery The new 6.7-liter diesel V8 that is debuting in the 2011 Ford Super-Duty pickup trucks is the first such engine ever developed and built in h..

» Are You Being Lied to About Recycling?
03/11/10 15:50 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Ivan Prole Look at the bottle of juice you just drank. The detergent you’re going to use. The plastic backer on the desk calendar. What’s on all of them? That familiar “chasing arrows” graphic with a number in the middle. Tha..

» What Does Sustainability Look Like? Photos From Around the World (Slideshow)
03/11/10 15:35 from TreeHugger
A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar . What does “sustainability” mean to you? That’s the question that JPG Magazine , a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online communit..

» Solar Headwinds, Part I
03/11/10 15:27 from Alternative Energy Stocks
How Solar PV is like Ethanol Tom Konrad, CFA High levels of competition in the the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry mean that buy-and-hold investors should look elsewhere. In May 2007, I published a competitive analysis of the corn Ethanol..

» Best of Ecouterre: 7 Celebs Spotted Wearing Eco-Fashion
03/11/10 15:19 from TreeHugger
+ Is Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory. + Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.’s Robert Kenner, Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just some..

» Big Oil Launches Campaign to Protect Gov Subsidies, Uses Stock Photos AGAIN
03/11/10 15:07 from TreeHugger
Guess who’ll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it’s Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly ‘real’ Americans were take..

» Smith Electric Vehicles US offers to buy out its UK parent
03/11/10 15:01 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in Smith Electric Vehicles Newton – Click above for high-res image gallery Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. has made an offer to the Tanfield Group to purchase Smith Electric Vehicles. Tanfield is a minority shareholder in..

» Fabulous AW10 Fashion Week Highlights From Around The Blogosphere
03/11/10 14:44 from TreeHugger
It has been another fabulous season for ethical fashion and all of us green bloggers are delighted to see the ethical designers’ collections going from strength to strength. From New York to London to Paris there have been some truly desir..

» Sweden expands wind power capacity
03/11/10 14:43 from Wind Energy Investing
Business Week reports that Sweden plans to expand… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» 2011 GMC Sierra HD features unique diesel exhaust fluid refill reminders
03/11/10 13:59 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Chevrolet , GM , GMC 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD – Click above for high-res image gallery Say it with us: 397 horsepower and 765 pound-feet of torque. That’s what General Motor s has been able to extract fro..

» Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples – Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds
03/11/10 13:54 from TreeHugger
photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just pa..

» Ten-Year-Old Fashion Designer with an Eco-Conscience
03/11/10 13:45 from TreeHugger
Credit: Cecilia Cassini Ten-year old Cecilia Cassini might just be the youngest fashion designer in the world. The California-based fifth grader has been sewing since she received her first sewing machine at the age of six. She now makes a..

» Top Stories from Tonic: Green Power in Africa, Hydroponic Farming in Anguilla, Environmental Justice Competition, and More!
03/11/10 13:41 from TreeHugger
Just in time for South Africa to host the World Cup, a group of Harvard students have created a way to provide energy from a soccer ball. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the sOccket . The Caribbean nation of Anguilla may be lush with tro..

» SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video)
03/11/10 13:30 from TreeHugger
Images via SolidWorks How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability s..

» EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban – And Then There Was Japan…
03/11/10 13:05 from TreeHugger
photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr. The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna , and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still..

» The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage
03/11/10 13:01 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Funny or Die TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before , and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores , but we’ve never done much on electric chainsaws. I’m thinking we should get something up soon though, be..

» Cisco Saving $24 Million With Packaging Diet
03/11/10 13:00 from TreeHugger
Photo via casers jean We’re fast to post about packaging failures, which are all too common. But happily, we sometimes get to post about packaging brilliance. Cisco is giving us just such an opportunity. The company has taken up a pilot pr..

» Is the cause of runaway Prius stories … other runaway Prius stories?
03/11/10 12:52 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota Second-gen Toyota Prius – Click above for high-res image gallery Following weeks of bad news for Toyota involving brake and acceleration problems and millions of recalled vehicles, something kind of strange hap..