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  • The End of the World's Grasslands as We Know Them?

    A newly released study posits a bleak future for the world's grasslands: rapidly escalating levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may prompt the large-scale conversion of grasslands to a landscape of woody shrubs. To reach these findings, Jack

  • Higher Number of Atlantic Storms Linked to Global Warming

    In another sign of global warming's growing influence on weather patterns around the world, a team of climate scientists have found that the number of storms in the Atlantic has dramatically increased over the past century. They attribute this upswing

  • Hydrogen + Methane = Hythane

    You've probably already heard of the potential for hydrogen and methane to serve as alternative energy sources but have you heard of "hythane"? Billing itself as "Blue Sky.Clean Air," the Hythane Company, LLC, based in Littleton, Colorado, has

  • Osprey Recycles Packs

    Announced a while back and due to be available by about June 07 are Osprey’s Resource series of packs and courier bags. 100% recycled PET (polyester) fabric from the likes of recycled drink bottles is utilised for the main body fabric, binding tape,

  • Which BioFuel Produces the Least NOx?

    There's more to environmental friendliness than carbon neutrality. And while biofuels certainly promise to reduce our world's carbon emissions, we've got to keep tabs on things like nitrous oxide emissions as well. This is exactly what folks at the

  • Colorado Rockies Score with Solar Power

    While the 2007 major league baseball season is just getting started, it's already clear that a few teams are winners in terms of making the national pastime a little bit greener. The Colorado Rockies have joined that fairly elite group of baseball

  • Denver Does Green

    For the Month of April the Denver Public Library will be promoting a whole raft of green activities for Denverites to participate in, under their Fresh Life program. There’ll be movies, presentation, workshops on the likes of global warming, renewable

  • Most Huggable: Aspen's Melting Slopes, Antarctica as a Concert Venue, Congress's New Portfolio

    Aspen’s delicate and lucrative ski slopes are under some serious threats…

  • LightLouver: A New Daylighting System

    Seems like it's been a few years since we mentioned light shelves. Groovy, simple things they bounce external natural light deep into building reducing the need for powered, artificial illumination. But they do have their limitations, as the ever

  • Greenbuild Film Features Industry Experts

    Why is the U.S. Green Building Council's conference and expo Greenbuild growing every year—when attendance at many other trade shows is dropping? Adam and Marty Butler tackle this question at Greenbuild 2006, held in Denver, Colorado, with a

  • Sierra Designs Feels the Green Effect

    Sierra Designs have been making outdoor gear for the past 40 odd years. (One of my favourite tents is one I frankensteined from parts of five remained SD ‘seconds’.) It great to see that they are now taking a more proactive stewardship role towards the

  • TreeHugger Picks: States of the Union

    Last night, President Bush filled us in on the State of the Union here in the US; despite mentioning biofuels and even "the serious challenge of global climate change," in the past year, individual states have left the feds with some catching up to do

  • TreeHugger Picks: We Have a Dream

    As Mike mentioned earlier, today is the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy in the US. In honor of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, we'd like to take a moment to consider what TreeHugger might include in a similar forward-looking,

  • High Desert Fine Organic Foods

    We received this tip from Daily Candy a few months back and we were finally able to taste test ourselves. Kiva Orchard, located in Colorado, is the certified organic farm behind High Desert Foods. The fruits and vegetables produced from this farm are

  • Colorado State Government Honing in on Renewables

    Yesterday, we highlighted Iowa's focus on renewable energy development in the coming legislative session; as one commenter noted, the Hawkeye State isn't the only one looking to greener energy for environmental and economic boosts. In fact, the

  • Wal-Mart's Solar Dream

    Wal-Mart has put out a request for proposals (RFP) to several large solar outfits. Apparently the request is fairly confidential, but Joel Makower seems to have seen the RFP and is making some comments about it over at his blog.

  • Holographic Solar One Step Closer to Reality

    Last April, we took at look at the holographic solar module, a technology that could cut the amount of silicon needed for, and thus the price of, solar power generation. Start-up Prism Solar Technologies, which developed the module, has sent a letter of

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