Sarah Silverman, Amanda Little Take On Climate Skeptic in Rowdy, Profanity-Riddled Debate (Video)
Mar/100
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Last night I attended what may be the strangest green-themed event ever. In order to roll out their new CT 200 hybrid with a bang, Lexus hosted an evening called the Darker Side of Green. The main attraction was a debate between author Amanda Little (Power Trip) and Gore-hating Phelim McAlee (the film Not Evil, Just Wrong) ‘moderated’ by Sarah Silverman (I say ‘moderated’ because as you’ll see in the videos below, she had no qual…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Sleek Rotary Faucet Lets You Dial Down Wasted Water
Mar/100
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Designer Eun Ji Byeon has come up with a new way to conserve water when washing our hands. Far more thoughtful than those pressure-packed push button faucets, the Dial is a stylish polished metal design that gives a nod to old-school rotary phones. Depending on your water needs, all you have to do is turn the dial to 5, 10, 15 seconds or more to manage the flow, and tad-dah! A successful connection to increased eco-consciousness!
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Obamas Expanding the White House Organic Garden in 2010
Mar/100
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Encouraged by their gardening success of this last year, the Obamas and their staff are expanding their organic edible garden by 500 square feet in 2010. This new addition will raise the total growing space to 1,600 square feet. A winter harvest took place earlier in March, and the staff was awarded with a bounty of winter vegetables and proved that year round gardening is possible, even with the large amounts of snow the DC area received.
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University of Delaware’s Electric Vehicles Give Power Back to the Grid
Mar/100
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Electric vehicles are pretty green in their own right. After all, the cars create zero carbon emissions. But imagine a vehicle that not only runs on electricity, but actually gives power back to the grid. One University of Delaware professor converted a few of the college’s vehicles to do just that. Under the school’s vehicle-to-grid program (V2G), Toyota Scions owned by the university and the state of Delaware feed electricity back to the local grid.
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The 2011 MKZ is Lincoln’s First Hybrid (41 MPG City Projected)
Mar/100
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Photo: Ford
Looks Like a More Upscale Fusion Hybrid
Hyundai’s 2011 Sonata Hybrid wasn’t the only new hybrid car today. Ford’s Lincoln division also debuted the MKZ hybrid, the brand’s first hybrid car. Not surprisingly, it shares many things with the Ford Fusion hybrid, most notably the hybrid system and the SmartGauge instrument cluster that rewards you for driving in a fuel-effic…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Highlights from the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
Mar/100
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After screening 155 films over the course of 12 days, the 18th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital ended last weekend. Grist recaps the highlights of the eco-conscious cinema event….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Hyundai Unveils the 2011 Sonata Hybrid (Lithium-Polymer Batteries, 37/39 MPG)
Mar/100
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Finally Some New Blood
Hyundai is challenging Toyota and Ford in the mid-size hybrid segment with the new Sonata hybrid which was unveiled today in New York. And at least on paper, it is quite competitive! It gets a slightly different styling from the regular 2011 Sonata (probably because of Toyota’s experience with the Prius — fewer people buy hybrids that look exactly the same as their non-hybrid counterparts), but the really interesting part is what’s under the hood. Read on for the technical specifications….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Researchers to Transform Airborne CO2 Into Fuel
Mar/100
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Any way you slice it, CO2 emissions from power plants are a bad thing. One potential solution is carbon capture and storage, but the technology is decades away from reality and safety concerns about storing massive amounts of CO2 underground still linger. Recently researchers at the University of the West of England revealed another promising solution — they’re developing a process that transforms CO2 emissions into fuel.
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San Francisco is the First City in the U.S. to Count Its Parking Spaces
Mar/100
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“In San Francisco, housing is expensive for people but free for most cars.”
It might come as a surprise to some, but pretty much all cities in the U.S. (and the world) have only a vaguest idea of how much parking spaces (public and prive) they have. Almost all of them, but now there’s a sizeable exception: San Francisco spent the past 18 months counting parking spaces. Total: 441,541 spaces. Over 280,000 on streets, 25,000 of which are metered. Now that this is know, decisions about removing or adding parki…Read the full story on TreeHugger
A Map for the Seafood Aisle
Mar/100
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Overfishing, we know, has depleted our oceans and left the food chains of marine ecosystems dangerously unbalanced. We also know that if we must eat fish, smart shopping can help protect ocean species.
To make it easier than ever, <a href=”http://www.good.is/post/transpare…Read the full story on TreeHugger
