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If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design that will not only house bats, but that will translate their calls and tell us humans what's going on....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Time to time military objections to wind power projects seem to pop up, but here's one with some seriously big impact: The Guardian reports that the UK Ministry of Defence is blocking plans for a total of 1 gigawatt of wind power in north-west England and south-west Scotland because the seismic noise from the wind turbines will prevent detection of nuclear weapons testing around the world. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Guardian has a nice profile on Colorado climate scientist Jason Box, who plans on heading to the White House to protest the construction of the K...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Earlier this week, a few bloggers and enviros were calling on the former GOP presidential candidate (and former, former climate advocate) Tim Pawlenty to come clean on his opportunistic global warming flip flop. See, Pawlenty, in a last-ditch effort to appease the rabid science-free wing of ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America:
In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than 47,700 pedestrians were killed in the United States, the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of passengers crashing roughly every month. On top of that, more than 688,000 pedestrians were injured over the decade, a number equivalent ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chances are good that if you have a garden or belong to a CSA, right about now, you have at least a few zucchini or summer squash sitting on your counter. If you're looking for some creative ways to cook zucchini, we've got you covered!...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA has released a map of Antarctica's complete ice flow. It is the first of its kind to show the speed and direction of ice flow on the continent, with glaciers flowing from the center out to the coast. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How much damage has this year's extreme weather--record snowfall in many places this winter, flooding, heat waves, tornadoes, drought in Texas with no end in sight--cost the United States? The National Climatic Data Center has a figure for the first ei...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A new study in the journal Science sheds some light on the critical question of how well will animal species adapt to climate change. The paper shows that animals are responding up to three times faster than expected to climate changes, either moving to higher a...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We've seen a variety of designs for carrying water over the years -- from the Hippo Roller to the Water Cycle. But this design by Cynthia Koenig, called the Wello WaterWheel, may be one of the most simple. Essentially a barrel with a handle to push it, it can transport 25 gallons, relieving women and girls from the burden of carrying water which, according to Koenig, is equivalent to "getting off an airplane in La Guardia, putting your checked baggage on your head and walking to the Brooklyn Bridge" every single day.
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I may have taken my own advice about lazivore gardening a little too seriously of late. My garden is a mess. That may go some way to explaining why I have been enjoying Paul Wheaton's YouTube channel so much7mdash;he's giving me my garden fix without having to go deal with the North Carolina summer or the wire-grass forest I am cultivating. Earlier today I posted a video ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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For most of us, easy access to books and libraries is something we take for granted. For the homeless though, it can be difficult to gain access to reading material in a library, much less signing up for a library card to take books out. In an effort to provide books to "people who live outside," Portland's Street Books project was started earlier this summer by artist, writer and "street librarian" Laura Moulton, who lends out books from a pedal-powered library cart....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From a seed bomb vending machine through aerial reforestation to a guide on how to make seed bombs and not get in trouble, we've had plenty of posts on seed bombs, or seed balls, and how to make them. But usually these posts ar...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From native plants in Brooklyn's backyard to keeping native Australian stingless bees, there is much to be said for working with plants and animals that have adapted to the region you live in. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. I've argued before that a war on invasive weeds may actually b...Read the full story on TreeHugger
We've seen one UK town aim for 30% renewables by 2015, and the United Arab Emirates' Masdar is often touted as the world's first clean energy city. But few communities could beat the huge push for renewables seen in Wildpoldsried, Germany, a town which has grown a clean energy industry bringing in $5.7m in annual revenue in just over a decade. And they've done it debt free. BioCycle has a fascinating report on this Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I guess we're not quite yet at "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." Those were President Obama's infamous words upon his inauguration, but, in fact, just released number show that despite a soft economic comeback US emissions went up nearly 4 percent in 2010.
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In late May, a cow named Yvonne decided not to be eaten, and broke through an electric fence to escape from the farm in Bavaria where she was being fattened for slaughter. No one has been able to catch her, and as her time on the run approaches three months, the search for what is now a celebrity cow has gotten somewhat out of hand.
Other animals haven't been as successful in their escape from human activity -- read on for a look at threatened lemurs, flamingos in danger, and dwindling dolphin populations -- but we have so...Read the full story on TreeHugger
U.S. Energy Secretary Chu has announced the Department of Energy’s $102 million loan guarantee to Record Hill Wind, LLC has been approved. The loan, to be given in combination with an investment by the Yale University Endowment, will support the Record Hill wind project – a 50.6 megawatt wind power plant near the town of Roxbury, Maine. The new project will not only supply green energy to thousands of residents but will fund 200 construction jobs. “This innovative project creates jobs in Maine while boosting domestic wind generation in order to achieve the Administration’s goal of doubling clean energy produced in America by 2035,” said 
Secretary Chu. “Clean energy is a major driver of American competitiveness, and investments like these are essential to secure our position as global leader.” The Record Hill project will use 22 turbines and new transmission lines to connect with the local power utility. Innovative Turbine Load Control (TLC) technology will be used to install the turbines, which involves a system that will reduce wear on the turbines, preserve the lifetime of turbine components, as well as reduce operation and management costs.
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