Cape Wind Held Up Yet A...
phault via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Cape Wind was supposed to be the nation’s first offshore wind farm. It was announced over ten years ago, and after fighting through miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape, it was finally approved by the Department of the Interior earlier this year. But after fielding — and overcoming — complaints from rich neighbors who worried it would spoil their coastal views, utilities who claimed they didn’t want to buy the electricity, and...The State of Science in...
Daily Show/Screen capture Okay, so I already posted about one Daily Show segment today — that’d be Jon Stewart calling out the media for over-hyping ClimateGate while ignoring important climate change-confirming studies . But seeing as how it’s Friday, I think there’s room for one more. Especially when it’s this good/infuriating: Watch Aasif Mandvi as he exposes a GOP strategist working to sow doubt about science in America, and ends up satirizing our...Paper Coupons Destroy 1...
crustmania via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 In order to promote its online paperless coupon business, SavingStar has rolled out a new ad campaign designed to appeal to the environmental sympathies of department store bargain hunters: In an infographic and accompanying news release, it claims that 13.6 million trees are destroyed every year to produce paper coupons. And worse yet, 99% of those… Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Paper Coupons Destroy 13 Million Trees...
Gnocchi Mac n’ Ch...
© Jerry James Stone via Flickr Mac n’ cheese is somewhat of a guilty pleasure, no? Like, it almost feels wrong to eat it once you no longer live in the college dormitory; I said almost! But it is one of my favorite comfort foods and I do not plan to give it up anytime soon. Well, this recipe makes the dish feel a bit more “grown up” if you will. So, go get your comfort on with a nicely chilled glass of Chardonnay. The variety has just the right amount of acid...8 Sustainable Wineries ...
© Jaymi Heimbuch via Flickr If you’re not familiar with Paso Robles wine country and you love fine wine, you might want to start paying attention. While the region hasn’t received as much press as its cousins to the north, Napa and Sonoma, it is California’s largest and most diverse wine region. During the growing season, for example, the appellation experiences a larger temperature swing than any other in California. It’s somewhere between 40 and 50...
US Geothermal Power Pot...
© SMU Geothermal Laboratory A new assessment of the geothermal power potential of the United States shows that the nation has roughly 3 million megawatts available and waiting to be tapped using the latest enhanced geothermal drilling methods — that’s 10 times the installed capacity of the nation’s coal-fired power plants…. Read the full story on TreeHugger More: US Geothermal Power Potential 10x That Of Coal Power Plants, New Analysis...
10 Favorite Nature Phot...
© Camera John via TreeHugger Flickr Pool The TreeHugger Flickr Pool is a group we started up earlier this year as a place for readers like you to add favorite photos depicting nature, sustainability, DIY projects, bike culture and anything else that is part of the environmental movement. The group is starting to pick up steam, and here are 10 of our top favorites added to the group so far. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: 10 Favorite Nature Photos...
President of Iceland: O...
Photo credit: o paisson via Flickr/CC BY Over the last few years, President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has seen disasters both financial and environmental wrack his tiny island nation of Iceland. The Nordic country was at the center of the economic meltdown in 2007, when each of its three major banks collapsed. Since then, Iceland has made headlines when it nationalized its banks in response to the crash, when a massive volcanic eruption grounded airplanes around the world, and when it...
"Scientific Facts ...
Photo credit: Maassive via Flickr/CC BY With the GOP primary race in full swing, climate change has again taken center stage in the American political discourse — just not in a way that any serious climate scientist would have hoped. Despite the prominence of an increasingly robust body of evidence that human activity is warming the planet, Republican presidential contenders like Texas governor Rick Perry and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann are flat-out denying that such a body...