02 September 2011

Image credit: Lauren Keith, used under Creative Commons license. When Bill McKibben called on the clean tech industry to stand up against the Keystone XL pipeline, he noted that the fossil fuel lobbies are working furiously to scupper the renewable energy revolution. One thing seems certain. As solar industries continue ferocious cost ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

02 September 2011

photo: Scott Wilcoxson/CC BY A new report from the World Wind Energy Association tracks new wind power installations in the first half of 2011, with China, the United States and India leading the pack. Though new installations were lower in Germany and Spain, strong commitment to renewable energy in previous years means both rem... Read the full story on TreeHugger

01 September 2011

They Even have a Kayak Commuter! Most of you probably know by now that Google isn't your average mega-corp. They like to do things their own way, and that includes getting their employees to work. The video above shows how they seem to encourage any way of commuting that isn't the individual car, from unicycles to pogo-sticks and kayaks (well, those are the weird ones -- most employees take the very comfortable bio-diesel shuttle buses with fast internet connections). "In total, the combination of the GFleet and our shuttles result in net annual savings of more than 5,400 metric tons of CO2. That's like taking over 2,000 cars off the roa... Read the full story on TreeHugger

01 September 2011

Photo: Flickr, CC The Least We Could Do You might have heard of the 80/20 rule. It says that in many cases, you can get about 80% of the result for 20% of the effort. Well, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, something similar might apply to the protection of marine mammal species. Of the 129 species of marine mammals on Earth, including seals, dolphins and polar bears, about 1/4 are facing extinction, but most of them could be saved if we ... Read the full story on TreeHugger