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Travel Stove Creates Electricity While It Cooks (Video)

Image via Coolest Gadgets How great would it be to have a stove where you can chuck practically any fuel source into it, have it utilize that fuel efficienctly to quickly heat your food, reduce emissions drastically, and power your gadgets? It seems th... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Thursday,15 April, 2010 | Hits: 68

Cooking Up a New Way to Be Green

Guest post by Anne Driscoll, originally published on Tonic. Day in, day out, we use the stove - and of course, our cookware -- to heat our meals and cook our snacks. But a revolutionary company called Ecolution has put green where we are not used to seeing it: in pots, pans and skillets. It has developed a Hydrolon non-stick surface which is made using a water-based process unlike traditional Teflon, which, according to Ecolution, uses harsh solvents to cre... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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New Game Simulates Impacts on Watersheds, Educates Kids and Policymakers Alike

Photo credit Jane Haley, University of Virginia How do you get kids to understand the complexities of saving a watershed - from the ecology to the politics - and actually enjoy figuring out how to save it? By turning it into a game of course! After a long time in development, University of Virginia released a detailed simulation of the Chesapeake bay watershed, allowing players to become players such as farmers, policy-makers, watermen and developers, make decisions about what happens to the watershed, and then see how those decisions impact the area over a 20-year period using real data and high-tech simulation. The game was released and pla... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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How's the US Wind Industry Doing? Manufacturing Growing More Slowly, But Record Installations in 2009

photo: Zechariah Judy via flickr. The American Wind Energy Association has just released its annual market report for the US and the super-quick summary is 2009 saw record installation of wind power but though manufacturing continues to see growth, it's happening more slowly than in 2008. Here are the fast facts to remember:... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Thursday,15 April, 2010 | Hits: 53

Connecticut Could Be First State to Roll Back Its Renewable Energy Standard

photo: Cliff via flickr. A quick one to keep an eye on and get your best booing voice reader for: New York Times is highlighting a bill passing through Connecticut's legislature that would slash in half the state's current renewable energy goal of getting 20% of its electricity from clean sources by 2020:... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Thursday,15 April, 2010 | Hits: 63

Vegetarians - iPhone App Scans Ingredient Label for Hidden Animal Products (Video)

Image via Gizmodo Food labels are confusing and if you're vegetarian or vegan, you might unknowingly be eating animal products simply because you don't understand the ingredient list. But have no fear - a new iPhone app is here to help you. Just scan in the label and find out which of the mysterious words actually mean "animal product." ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Thursday,15 April, 2010 | Hits: 71

Good News: China's Renewable Energy Growth Now Outpacing Coal

photo: Fiona Shields via flickr. Though coal still provides the majority of China's power, there's some good news coming from Xinhua via Business Green: New official Chinese stats show that the nation's renewable energy capacity is now growing faster than its coal plants.... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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No, the Record-Setting April Heatwave April Doesn't Prove Global Warming. But . . .

If you happened to be in part of the country that was hit by it, you sure noticed the warmer-than-usual temps caused by the April heat wave. It caused meteorologists across the country to ask if it was "July in April" and even got a few to mention global warming! But hold on--I am not about to suggest that a single hotter-than-usual week is evidence that the entire planet is experiencing global warming. That would be ridiculous, and that would be the same logic climate deniers use when it snows more than usual. In January. But with the high temp... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Thursday,15 April, 2010 | Hits: 51

Best of Green: Food and Health (Slideshow)

Of all the environmental issues to think about -- and there a lot of them -- questions concerning food and health are common to us all. We've all got to eat, and do so every day, and so questions of how we manage the environment and how the environment affects human health affect all humankind. How we will feed the world's burgeoning population? Which farmers are pushing beyond organic? Can corporate growth and products that are healthy for people and the environment ever meet in a happy place? Nothing, it seems, is so systematically and emotionally complicated as agriculture and health -- because it's not just abou... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Billions and Billions of 3D Glasses: Will Biodegradable Frames Discourage Reuse?

Paper or plastic? Old school 3D glasses. Photo by Hacky via Flickr It is estimated that if the 42.1 million pairs of 3D glasses used at theaters to watch Avatar were laid end-to-end, they would stretch more than 3,987 miles. Avatar and Alice in Wonderland each required more than 10 million pairs of 3D glasses to be shipped around the globe, resulting in emissions comparable to burning 50,000 gallons of gasoline or 917 barrels of oil. These aren't the old flimsy cardboard vari... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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