Showing posts with label Chris Tackett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Tackett. Show all posts
Josh Fox says President Obama's support for natural gas shocked him, but Brad Plumer shows how the issue of gas exports and production has much to do with maintaining trade relationships.



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A must-read article by Mark Hertsgaard in Newsweek reports how BP lied about the size of the oil disaster and the danger posed to its workers, the public and the environment. It is a cautionary tale for victimes of all oil spills.



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The Keep a Breast Foundation and Non Toxic Revolution challenged people to keep all the plastic they used in a week. Here's what I learned.



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Bill McKibben has a new piece in Rolling Stone about the growing momentum of The Fossil Fuel Resistance movement



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New estimates of the amount of oil spilled by Exxon Mobil in Mayflower, Arkansas have grown far beyond the initial figures. Meanwhile, an activist group has video of an unreported "dumping ground" of crude oil.



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South African photographer Dillon Marsh has a beautiful series of photographs of some sad and awkward looking cell phone towers disguised as trees.



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South African photographer Dillon Marsh has a beautiful set of photographs of cell phone towers awkwardly disguised as sad trees.



via Latest Items from TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/gadgets/cell-phone-towers-disguised-sad-trees/
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet is a short documentary (above) that follows Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, two designers behind Hövding and how their innovative design came to be.



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Russian artist, Xenia Bystrova has created a charming series of posters of some of Europe's great cities.



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Writing in Bloomberg, Marc Champion has a thought-provoking, but controversial take on horse meat, noting that the ban of horse slaughterhouses in the US has increased suffering for the animals. Is that a case for killing them here?



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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) has reintroduced to Congress the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act which aims to reduce the use of human antibiotics in animals and keep them working for human medicine.



via Latest Items from TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/resistance-antibiotics-now-kills-more-people-aids.html
Venessa Wong at Bloomberg Businessweek looks into the design tricks of the micro-apartment trend.



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John Robb at Resilient Communities has better idea for our yards: farmers should make house calls!



via Latest Items from TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/what-if-farmers-made-house-calls.html
Grist's "Ask Umbra" is asked if there is hope for the planet. The answer is just what we needed.



via Latest Items from TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/there-room-hope-climate.html
The Sustainable D.C. Act of 2012 lists 32 goals, 31 targets, and more than 140 actions aimed to make Washington D.C. the "greenest city in the U.S."



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The Keystone XL pipeline isn't the only tar sands project facing opposition from the public. Vermont residents voted to oppose the use of an existing pipeline for the transportation of Canadian tar sands oil.



via Latest Items from TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/29-vermont-towns-vote-oppose-tar-sands-exports.html
Grist and Bloomberg have good reports on what the future of clean energy looks like in the coming decade.



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