Tag: Arizona - Page 2
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Barn Raising Reinvented: Neighbors Install Water Cisterns for Each Other (Video)
As I argued in my post on why masturbation is an economic act, human beings have countless non-monetary ways to facilitate trade and build true wealth for themselves and their communities. From Portland's tool
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ASU Parking Lot to Sport 2MW Solar Parasol, Reduce Heat Island Effect
TreeHugger's Pablo was asked the other day whether solar contributes to the heat island effect. Because panels are dark in color, went the query, do they actually increase the amount of heat absorbed in an urban
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Think Big! Arizona Solar Tower 2X Taller Than the Empire State Building Will Produce 200 Megawatts
2625 Feet Tall! Solar towers, which are kind of big funnels that generate electricity by using the fact that hot air rises, are too often forgotten when we discuss solar energy. Solar PV and CSP get all the press, but solar towers
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8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Declining
Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix,
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Moratorium on Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon About to Expire - Will BLM Cave to Lobbyists?
It is approaching time for the Bureau of Land Management to once again consider whether or not to allow bids for uranium mining on more than one million acres of land near the Grand Canyon. The two-year moratorium that is now
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7 Volunteer Vacations...in Warm Climates
Right about now, winter is getting a little old -- especially for residents of the Northeast U.S. and Western Europe who've been pounded with snow, slammed by wind, and chilled with freezing temperatures for more than
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Release Of Sterile Pests May Help Eliminate Need For Genetically Modified Crops
Mass release of sterile crop pests can be a practical control strategy (presumably even for organic farmers). As reported by SciDevNet, 'release of sterile insects has
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Brittlebush: A Desert Tent Home of Rammed Earth & Reclaimed Steel By Simon de Aguero
From a recent graduate of Arizona's Taliesin, the architectural school founded by Frank Lloyd Wright, comes this beautiful tent-like desert shelter made primarily from tensile fabric, rammed earth and salvaged steel. Designed by Simon de Aguero and
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The Search For Local Organic Food In The Arizona Desert
Photo by cogdogblog via Flickr Creative CommonsLocally raised organic food -- it's what anyone who wants to eat the healthiest foods with the smallest environmental footprint hunts for, right? Whether from their own garden or the local markets, anyone
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Lake Mead At Lowest Level Since 1956: Water Users Conserving, Hoping For Rain Next Year
"The Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead (left photo accented by a rainbow) in 1983, the year its highest water elevation is recorded. By 2009 (right), Lake Mead's water-elevation level has dramatically declined, revealing the chalky-white structure of
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Life Cycle Analysis Shows The True Environmental Cost of Swimming Pools
Not surprisingly, hot places like Phoenix or Palm Springs have a lot of backyard pools. Warren wrote recently about their environmental cost in terms of energy and water, but a new life cycle analysis of all of the inputs and
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Want to Stop Global Warming? Keep Out the Immigrants! (Video)
You've likely heard a pretty diverse range of arguments from advocates of Arizona's draconian anti-illegal immigration law, and of cracking down on immigration in general: immigrants are stealing American jobs, unduly siphoning off
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The Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2010 (Slideshow)
This "green bomber" worm, an annelid that lives below 1,800 meters deep in the seas off of California, is one of the Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration's "Top Ten New
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The Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2010
Green Bomber This "green bomber" worm, an annelid that lives below 1,800 meters deep in the seas off of California, is one of the Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration's "Top Ten New Species" for 2010. Each distinguished
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Turn Your Froot Loops Into Furniture With The Sustainable Slotted System
Sometimes you just need a little visual privacy in your space. TreeHugger been showing the Molo Softwall since, I think, my earliest posts on TreeHugger. At Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, students were asked
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What if Every Prisoner in the US Produced Electricity?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio was concerned about the waistlines of some of the inmates at his Arizona jail, so he had an idea. The sheriff brought in an electricity-generating stationary bike and hooked it up to a television set which is
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Could Rush Limbaugh Deter Pine Bark Beetles? (Video)
Jeff has already explored a whole variety of diseased and pest ridden trees this week, but the pine bark beetle's march has to be one of the biggest threats to forests in North America. Unsurprisingly, researchers are
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Remnants of the Biosphere: Abandoned and Derelict
Three years ago we wrote about Biosphere 2: "It was a glorious idea- build a giant terrarium and see if a self-sustaining microcosm of earth could keep people alive without importing food, water or even air. Constructed in the middle of nowhere in the
