George said:
"Is it just me or does that look like a vast use of land?
Surely, it is better have a decentralised electricity supply (yes production effic..." [read]
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George said:
"I wonder if people have ever considered the impact byproduct have on the overall "friendliness" of a product? The previous comments have made me th..." [read]
George said:
"Yes, but cows are being raised. Whether or not they should be is another question. But surely, utilising an existing byproduct in an ecology sound ..." [read]
George said:
"Of course there are such as things as roundabouts, where people can join and leave from all directions at once. Not as great for bikes (although th..." [read]
Zack commutes 200 miles (322 Km) each way to work; 2% of the American workforce spends more than 90 minutes driving each way to work. That is seriously extreme, but a lot of commenters noted the trade-off they make for cheaper or better housing vs being close to work.
John notes that with gasoline prices rising so, we expect consumers to increasingly shop online to reduce their personal climate "footprint" and save money, especially if the selection of green products is good. But what if you can't really tell if the product is green, or whether, with the cost of transport and logistics, if it is better than going off to the nearest store.
Bonnie writes "There are so many communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America that are benefiting from the [Fair Trade] movement's commitment to paying a living wage by teaching people to create products that are useful, use local materials, and do not have a negative impact on the environment." But there is often a price to be paid, as it costs more to grow cocoa or coffee without chemicals and to pay people properly.
Gertrude Stein was wrong, a rose is not a rose is not a rose. Some are local, some are flown in; some are organic and some are full of chemicals; some are picked by people who get a decent wage and some are picked by exploited workers.
It is a big debate; The people at H2 and You say hydrogen can "reduce our dependence on oil, while improving the world's carbon footprint by reducing greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere." Others disagree.
Vanity Fair does it. Now Marie Claire is doing it in style. That's just the inch-thick fashion and style magazines; in fact everyone seems to have a green issue this spring, including shelter mags like Dwell and Azure . Outside Magazine did it, and in the biggest contradiction of them all, Delta's inflight magazine. You could reforest an entire state with the trees felled for all of these.
According to the Dogwood Alliance, America is eating up its forests, literally. Americans use 15 billion disposable coffee cups a year from fast food and coffee joints, with projected numbers reaching 23 billion by 2010. But food retailers have options, as do you, the consumer. For more information see ::No Free Refills and ::It's Time for Deposits. On Everything.
In some countries, cars don't have cup-holders; a car is not a kitchen. Neither is an office, yet one often sees people eating at their desks. We have noted before that fire retardants are fat soluble, so you shouldn't type with greasy fingers; We also just learned that keyboards can be full of bacteria from food particles rotting away. Some people, like Michael Pollan, say that a key to healthy eating is to sit down at a dining table and have a real meal; others will eat anything anywhere.
Tom Friedman doesn't think so, saying in the NY Times: "This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country." McCain and Clinton want to cut the tax; Obama doesn't.
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Food miles are so last year, we are into food feet at TreeHugger, suggesting that it is time you got out into the yard (front, back, balcony or allotment plot) and started growing your own food. It's good for your health, it's good exercise and it's good for the environment. So what's stopping you?
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We asked in a recent survey if you thought you would be driving in thirty years; now economist Jeff Rubin thinks gas prices could be $7 to $10 per gallon in just four years, and that this is going to cause massive changes in the way we live and work.
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Author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman spoke at Brown University about globalization, energy and green technology. He said that the federal government needs to put a price on carbon, set regulations and pour money into research and development and let American ingenuity meet the market force for clean energy. “I do believe clean power is going to be the next great global industry, I know that for sure. ”
Before he started his speech, he got pied by two "environmental activists" who said: “Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet, for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with respect to the true problems at hand” UPDATE Video of Friedman getting pied added below the fold.
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We have noted that it takes 2500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. An Australian academic has suggested that there should be water labelling on food to let us know how much water has been used in producing it. "The majority of water consumption is by agricultural industries and in particular things like rice and also meat production. I think perhaps if consumers knew the quantities of water embedded in those products they might question or they might change their purchasing decisions.”
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So much hype everywhere. We asked earlier if Earth Day was past its best by date, and the majority of you thought that it still had value. But what are you doing about it?
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The New York Times says "The number of cars and trucks is projected to double in 30 years— to more than two billion — as developing nations rapidly modernize." We say huh? Isn't climate change an issue here? Are we really going to just keep producing cars or are we going to be looking at alternatives?
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In her post yesterday, April wrote "fur is one of those slightly grey areas that is increasingly trying to get green cred." A Japanese designer mixes it with recycled polyester and calls it "eco-fur." The Canadian Fur Council devotes a website to the concept that "Fur is Green."
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We have been saying it for years, but now the Canadian government has declared Bisphenol A, found in polycarbonates and linings of tin cans, to be "dangerous" and just yesterday the US National Toxicology Program linked it to health problems, including breast cancer and early puberty.
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In hopes of increasing ridership, the city of San Francisco is testing a new form of cutting-edge public transport known as the Connected Bus, a hybrid vehicle offering high-speed Internet access and live updates about delays. Would you be more likely to take it?
Continue the discussion in the forum!
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We are in the midst of a worldwide food crisis; in the US, wheat has doubled in price. In Mexico, they are rioting over tortilla prices. Rice has doubled. Italians can't afford pasta. Worst of all, we are running out of beer. Yet the American and Canadian governments continue to subsidize the production of biofuels from corn and soybeans, in the name of "energy independence."
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We often get asked to run our surveys so that people can see the results without voting, usually because they don't want to vote for any of the answers. On the other hand, showing the poll results can skew the poll because hey, nobody likes to lose.
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We recently learned that "A bill intended to protect blind people and other pedestrians from the dangers posed by quiet cars will be introduced in Congress. The measure would require the Transportation Department to establish safety standards for hybrids and other vehicles that make little discernible noise, including an audible means for alerting people that cars are nearby."
So hybrids are too quiet and will be required to have boom boxes playing loud music or baseball cards in the spokes.
NEW!- Carry on the discussion in the forum here.
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We do spend a lot of space trashing bottled water here at TreeHugger; Fiji Water is fighting back with a green campaign where they are reducing their carbon footprint, saving the Fijian rainforest, reducing packaging and using more fuel efficient trucks to deliver the water to the port in Fiji.
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Collin wrote yesterday: "There are lots of reasons to think about living off the grid. Geography -- if you've found your little slice of heaven here on earth that's too far to feasibly plug in to the grid -- is often a good motivator, but ethical, environmental and altruistic choices drive many an off-gridder to unplug from conventional power sources; producing and using your own clean energy can be a wonderfully empowering, liberating experience, and it sure can be nice to not receive all those bills."
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Last year at this time, other prominent environmental bloggers like Alex were saying things like "Earth Day has become a ritual of sympathy for the idea of environmental sanity. Small steps... are of such minor impact (compared to our ecological footprints) that they are essentially meaningless without larger, systemic action as well." Dave said “Yup. The time for "small steps" is long past. It's time for people to wake the hell up.” Others say "Small steps lead to education and awareness and that leads to votes and votes lead to change."
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