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Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 07. 3.09
Travel & Nature

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Photo: Wikipedia, CC

The Incredible Shrinking Sheep!
Could the changing climate be shrinking animals? That seems to be the case for the Soay sheep of Scotland. "The island of Hirta, on the western coast of Scotland, is home to a special breed of sheep. Soay sheep, named after a neighbouring island, are the most primitive breed of domestic sheep and have lived on the isles of St Kilda for at least a millennium." These sheep are already smaller on average than other breeds of sheep, but according to a recent study, they have been getting even smaller...

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Orange's Futuristic Solar Tent for Stylish Off-Grid Charging

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 07. 3.09
solar

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Images via Orange

Taking their Chill-n-Charge tent to a whole new level, Orange has dreamed up a concept solar tent that would use flexible solar fabric and modern design to create a place to relax and charge up gear while off grid. Check out images of the concept tent and how it would work.

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FICO Is Greening Our Credit, and the Business in General

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 07. 3.09
Science & Technology

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Dealing with your FICO score can sometimes make you see red, but the company is trying to throw in some green. They launched a Sustainable Enterprise Initiative in 2008, with the goal to reduce the company's IT energy use by 50% and paper consumption by 80% by 2010. They've already made some serious headway on that goal.

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Students Get 568 Km Per Liter, Hope For More

by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 07. 3.09
Cars & Transportation

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Sakarya University students with their hydrogen-powered car. Photo via SAİTEM.

Gas prices in Turkey are among the highest -- if not the highest -- in the world, a fact I was rudely awakened to last summer when some friends and I rented a car to drive from Istanbul to Edirne, a round-trip of around 500 kilometers, to watch the oil-wrestling championships. (A story in and of itself.) We paid about $100 for the gas alone, some 38 liters of it. If we'd been driving the SAHİMO, a car invented by Turkish university students, we could have gone all the way across the country -- more than three times farther -- on just three liters of fuel.

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Transport TW: Zero Emission Car Powered By Magnetic Fields

by Jerry James Stone, San Francisco, CA on 07. 2.09
Cars & Transportation

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Photo courtesy of EcoFriend

Car designer Harsha Vardhan suggests that this two-wheeler concept is the car of the future.

His Transporter TW (Twin Wheel) is a single-seater electric vehicle that uses magnetic fields for driving the car. The two gianormous wheels, suspended over a superconducting fluid, are propelled by those shifting magnetic fields. Thus the power generation, and motion of the car, is a nice noiseless and smooth ride.

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Re-Think The Shark! Clever Ad by Save Our Seas Foundation

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 07. 2.09
Travel & Nature

We Can't Limit Conservation Efforts to Cute & Cuddly Animals...
Here's a clever ad about "Re-Thinking the Shark" by the most excellent Save Our Seas Foundation (check out their projects here). With humans killing more than 100 million sharks each year, and with many species of sharks in dramatic decline, we definitely need to re-think our relationship with sharks, something that TreeHugger has written about frequently in the past (see links below).

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Oh No Mommy! Will the Greenies Take Fireworks Away From Us?

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 07. 2.09
Culture & Celebrity

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Photo: Flickr, CC

Obligatory Post About Green Fireworks for the 4th of July
Fireworks are fun - who doesn't like explosions? - and a good excuse to get together with family and friends, but they're also not very clean. In Beijing, China, the smoke from fireworks during the new year celebrations tripled pollution levels overnight, and the toxic metals used to get the bright colorful sparks fall back to Earth, contaminating soil and water. Is there something we can do without losing the fireworks?

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Apple's "Active Packaging" Idea Would Plug On-the-Shelf Products Into Power Source

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 07. 2.09
Science & Technology

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Image via AppleInsider

A patent idea from Apple bounces around the notion of "active packaging," where on-the-shelf products would be plugged into a power source so that things like iPods would be able to display videos or receive firmware updates while waiting to be purchased. Sounds like a very un-green turn for Apple.

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