Tag: Evolution - Page 5
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Schoolhouse Rock "Energy Blues" Now 30 - An Annotated Perspective
Thirty years ago, a certain generation digested large amounts of Schoolhouse Rock on their way from being Sugar Bomb Eaters to 9-to-fivers; many a happy moment was spent staring at the glass screen figuring out how a bill becomes law, what the heck an
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Humans Evolved to Fear Snakes, Not High-Risk Mortgages or Risks at Traffic Lights
Is technology, made to better our lives, killing us? Kids have stopped playing on trees, and this isn't healthy, reported TreeHugger's Lloyd last week, citing a UK study that found more and more kids
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Free Hybrid Electric Buses at Tokyo's Haneda Airport
What is there not to like about the new shuttle buses at Tokyo's Haneda Airport - the hybrid electric buses save energy and have less air pollution. They are more quiet and the ride is smooth as silk. Plus they are free. Hino has supplied one while
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World's First "Multiplayer Forecasting Game" Asks: What Would You Do If Humanity Has Only 23 Years Left?
Image: London in 2019? from Futurelab In an increasingly unpredictable world besieged by melting ice-caps, earthquakes and floods, it's not difficult to see the advantages of so-called scenario-thinking to help humanity quickly adapt to the vagaries of
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Coolest Animal Attack Viral Vids for Mother's Day
Mothers Day is next Sunday (hint, hint). To get you in the mood, TreeHugger gives you our top picks for viral videos of Moms in the wild. This is nature at its most raw, most violent, most competitive. Inspirational. Awesome. Watch it with your mother,
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Scientists Build A Better Leaf?
Photosynthesis in plants utilizes a complex arrangement of proteins, enzymes, and other chemical components to turn electromagnetic energy from the sun into chemical energy for the plant. Evolution has resulted in photosynthetic pathways that are
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Climate Change in Africa May Have Driven Early Human Evolution
We've known now for a long time that humanity's earliest roots could be traced back to Africa. Indeed, it is thought that around 70,000 years ago early human populations first began to expand and leave the African continent to spread out across the
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The Shift Movie: The Next Stage in Human Evolution?
It seems there's no shortage of environmental movies coming out these days, either chronicling the dire situation we find ourselves in, or mapping out things we can do about it. We've seen Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar, we've
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Evolution, Accelerated
Scientists have mostly discussed and understood evolution as a process whose effect can only be ascertained over the course of thousands, if not millions of years. In essence, evolution is defined as a change in a population's genetic composition over
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What If Darwin Did Davos?
Who has not seen an email the with "Darwin Award" nominees listed? It's a yearly staple of the very oldest net-buddy distribution lists. For those of you not privileged enough to have received one, the motto on the Darwin Awards website is: "We
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Ontario Courier Service Provides Greener Alternative
Kingston, Ontario business owners Charles Lapointe and Isabelle Racine wanted their small package delivery service, Go Local Courier, to stand out from the other companies offering similar services in town. So, in addition to adopting a professional look
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The Teastick: Never Toss Another Tea Bag
Not long ago, we brought you the made-over tea bag, and it caused quite a stir, so we thought we'd take one more step and cut the disposable out of the equation. The producers of the Teastick boast that "this is what happens when designers and
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TreeHugger Picks: Diaper Dandies
Which is best: flushable, biodegradable, washable or nothing at all? We haven't been able to come to a clear consensus about diapers just yet, so we submit the best alternative to old-fashioned disposables and let the chips fall where they may. What is
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TreeHugger TV: Episode 3 - Farm To The Table
We’re really getting on a THTV roll now with episode 3 - Farm to the table. This week TreeHugger and m ss ng p eces bring you the first in a three part series on the organic process of farm to table living, THTV interviews Jack Algiers. Jack is the
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Volvo Premiers Hybrid System for Trucks and Busses
After last week's post on Volvo's plans for a second carbon-neutral factory, someone was kind enough to point out the irony of a CO2-free truck plant that still makes conventional trucks. Well, the irony was not lost and Volvo announced this week a
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Animated Climate Model By Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
This is a still image from an animated, long-range climate model by the US Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL/NOAA). Here's the animated link. The frames step through future quite rapidly, so be sure to play the animation several times to
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Wooden Briefcase
In pursuit of new applications for wood, this briefcase was created by industrial designer Takumi Shimamura and it's made with "ecologically thinned" Japanese cedar. The briefcase is designed to accomodate laptops, and it is handmade by Japanese
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58 Lustron Homes Being Given Away
Lustron Homes were the "The House America Has Been Waiting For" post WW2- the all-steel manufactured wonders that were going to revolutionize the housing industry. They did not for a number of reasons- they were built like tanks and the developers made
