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When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-carrying, the Westcotts teamed up with custom bike designers Yendra Built Cycles. The partnership yielded the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Reports are coming in that a tragic attack has occurred on an Arctic expedition in Svalbard, Norway: A British teenager taking part on the trek was attacked and killed by a polar bear -- four others were wounded, and the bear was shot dead. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With Discovery's Shark Week almost over, now is a good time to look back on some of what we've learned this week, and to learn a few facts about these magnificent ocean predators. (Yes, those little waves when a triangle above are supposed to be water and a shark fin. ASCII art at its finest!)...Read the full story on TreeHugger
The United States is home to 6,624 state parks and has an annual attendance of over 700 million. Yet state parks are being threatened by budget cuts and economic downturn. Here's a list of all state parks set to get the axe. Does your favorite make the cut?
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A photo of a 'meltdown' on nuclear experimenter Richard Handl's kitchen stove. Photos: Handl via Richard's Reactor
People take up some crazy hobbies out there: building elaborate model trains, collecting dusty old stamps, attempting to split the atom in their kitchen in order to solve the world's energy crisis. Yes, it appears that an intrepid young Swedish man obtained a supply of uranium, radium, and other radioactive elements, and had proceeded to build a small nuclear fission reactor in his kitchen. He was conducting experiments ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer. The proposed drill sites are in the Beaufort Sea just north of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and east of Prudhoe Bay and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Texas Gov. Ricky Perry's swagger and anti-science views won't turn down the heat in his state/via rickperry.org
I've been to Texas a few times in the past year to visit a friend who moved there, but I'm not planning on returning any time soon if the state's record heat keeps up. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Thursday marked the 34th consecutive day that the mercury level went over the 100 mark. Dating back to 1895, July was the hottest month ever recorded in Texas, a state that knows a few thin...Read the full story on TreeHugger
There's no doubt that Arctic sea ice is melting at record rates, with rising temperatures in the region outpacing the global average increase, but a new article in Science questions whether there will ever be a tipping point in Arctic ice melting....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Great news coming on the tail end of Shark Week -- the world's largest shark sanctuary so far is in the works in Micronesia. It will cover over 2 million square miles in the western Pacific which is equal to about two-thirds the land area of the US! ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A great post at CleanTechnica takes a closer look at solar power's water use, and the ups and downs of environmental cost versus financial cost. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The tragic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan seems to have transformed the nation's relationship to energy. Tokyo's citizens have already slashed energy use by 15%, and from plans for solar on all new buildings to theRead the full story on TreeHugger
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In honor of Shark Week, we put a call out for you to share your photos of sharks in TreeHuggers Flickr Pool. Readers answered the call -- check out some gorgeous photos of sharks from the photo group. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Does anyone remember the case of Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto after the company's Roundup Ready canola had drifted onto his farm without him knowing about or wanting it? A new case in Minnesota could be just the opposite scenario: Oluf and Debra Johnson say that pesticides from surrounding conventional farms have been wafting onto their 1500-acre organic farm—damaging their crop and impacting their profits. A court has now ruled that the Johnsons can sue to recover their lo...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From community-owned wind farms overcoming NIMBYism to local residents installing solar panels on a nearby brewery roof, people power is on the rise. And with energy costs rising, and traditional investments looking ever shakier, it's little wonder that communities are banding together to find places to put their money that both protect the envir...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Want solar panels but don't want to pay for them? Feed-in tariffs have already enabled free solar for schools programs in the UK, and in the US folks are enjoying solar for no money down thanks to innovative leasing schemes. Now Business Green reports a similar scheme is offering at least UK£30m (about US$45m) of funding for free solar panels. (Some ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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