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Factory Farming Is Not the Best We Have to Offer

25 October 2011


© Derek Goodwin Over the last half-century in the US, small farms have been replaced by large, industrialized operations that treat animals and the natural world as mere commodities. This factory farming system, which slaughters animals by the billions, costs us all dearly.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

By 2031, Could Solar Be Main Source of Energy for Many Utilities?

25 October 2011

via internet science tech The concept of backcasting, or imagining ourselves in a future we want to see and then identifying tte path that got us there, may sound like a wishy-washy motivational workshop activity. But it is a powerful way to identify not just what we want to achieve, but a strategic, step-by-step path for getting us there. (I've posted before on why environmentalists need strategy.) That's why a Renewable Energy World report on a presentation by Julia Ha... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Selling Home Solar Like a Cell Phone Plan (Video)

25 October 2011


pink_dispatcher/CC BY-SA 2.0 The more people who get energy from clean sources like solar and wind, the better. That's an unambiguous truism at this point. Yet two primary factors prevent more folks from plugging into renewable power: Cost and access. Most people have neither a) the option to plug into a big, centralized wind farm or solar array, nor b) the financial resources to pay the upfront costs for distributed projects like rooftop solar. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Giant Amoebae Discovered in Mariana Trench (Video)

24 October 2011


National Geographic Society Remote Imaging Dropcam/via Deep sea researchers have caught footage of the most unlikely and extreme of creatures: giant amoebas. Using specially-rigged untethered landers or "dropcams," the team spotted these mysterious single-celled organisms earlier this summer in the planet's deepest known region, the Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Not Stopped By New Snowfall - Ties For Record Ice Loss

24 October 2011


Destination Arctic Circle/CC BY-ND 2.0 Some new insight into how the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting in response to climate change, from the City College of New York: Research from CCNY's Cryospheric Processes Laboratory has discovered that extreme melting of the ice sheet can continue even when the region doesn't experience record-high temperatures -- all that is required is warmer temperature... Read the full story on TreeHugger

How Conservation Photography Is A Political Act

25 October 2011


Mike Baird/CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understand the resonant beauty or shocking destruction and therefore move to act on the planet's behalf. But, what really is conservation photography as separate from nature photography, wildlife photography or oth... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Guerrilla Artist Catapults LEDs into the Air to Bring Stars Back to London

24 October 2011


Oscar Lhermitte/via If you were in London in late June, you may have noticed more stars than usual, and constellations you've never seen before. You weren't going crazy, but light pollution hadn't dropped off, either. The "stars" were the work of French artist Oscar Lhermitte, who with his team catapulted nylon lines studded with LED lights between tree tops; creating series of twelve new constellations.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

You WIll Probably Live to See 'Dangerous' Levels of Climate Change

24 October 2011


Stephen Yeargin, via Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 As far as Americans are concerned, climate change is a perpetually distant and ambiguous threat. Some glaciers thousands of miles away might melt, some poor people might suffer through droughts in Africa, some polar bears might drown. Et cetera. This 'distance effect' is, partly, what drives global warming to the bottom of our priority lists time and again. It's an amorphous problem, ever-looming. That's what it seems like, anyway. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

India Will Install 3,000 MW Wind Power This Year, Up 39% From 2010

24 October 2011


Land Rover Our Planet /CC BY-ND 2.0 India's making some good progress in wind power: According the HSBC Global Research (via Business Standard), India is on track to install 2,984 MW of new wind power in 2011 -- ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

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