Photo: Kelly Rossiter
This delicious pear soup is the perfect bridge between the late summer harvest and the need for a warming soup on a cool evening. Not only that, it is the perfect bridge between sweet and savoury. You won't see a lot of dessert or sweet recipes here in my column, because I just don't have a sweet tooth, but this was just the right mixture for me. My one regret is that I didn't have Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image: Screenshot via PhoneStory.org
A game called Phone Story, released this week, is designed to allow players to see the dark sides of the technologies we use everyday—from coltan mining in central Africa to high Read the full story on TreeHugger
Pennies are so cheap that Andre Balazs covers the floor of the Standard Hotel with them. Image credit Lloyd Alter
Some have suggested that the drive to replace the dollar bill with a coin is driven by western mining interests, while the bill is being defended by eastern paper interests. But
Jim Kolbe, the former Republican Party Congressman from Arizona and now honorary head of the Dollar Coin Alliance behind the COINS act that would pull the dollar bill out of circulation in America. (see Pocket Change We Can Believe In: Republicans Introduce Bill To Retire Dollar Bill...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo credit: D Guisinger/Creative Commons
Every year salmon swim up the Snake river, struggling over 900 miles and up 7,000 vertical feet to their spawning grounds—the highest in the world and among the most important in North America. Before the construction of dams down the length of the river, as many as 30 million fish made the annual journey.
This year, two runners will acco...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: Michael Graham Richard, Detroit 2009
Lutz Hasn't Made His Last Car...
Bob Lutz, the man who once upon a time derided hybrids and electric cars only to later be instrumental in making GM produce the Chevy Volt, has now joined a small electric car company named Via Motors. Apparently he wasn't just pretending to like EVs......Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: Google
Google <3 Solar Power
Google has piles of money, and rather than invest it all in boring bonds and t-bills, it is putting some of its cash to work in green projects (see the links at the bottom of this post). One of these projects is the leasing of solar panels by residential customers - they have already invested $280 million into it - a concept that is mostly constrained by capital, since there's a big upfront cost that is then recouped ov...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos by Michelle Kaufmann
Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.
...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image: Mainichi Corporation via The Green Belt Movement
When I interviewed Wangari Maathai in July 2004, I had no idea she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a few months later. By the time the award was announced, I had booked tickets from New York to Nairobi to volunteer with her organization, the Green Belt Movement....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image credit: Ecofilms Australia
The other day, I posted a video on how one Australian farmer was using weeds and water to regenerate degraded land. Perusing Permaculture TV, I came across another video from Ecofilms Australia of one Aussie farmer who planted more than 1000 trees along a 2km "swale" (a water harvesting di...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image credit Sessiebear
Finally, the Tea Party Republicans introduce a measure that makes cents: Rep. David Schweikert (Ariz.) and two others have introduced the Currency Optimization, Innovation and National Savings (COINS) Act to replace the dollar bill with a coin. He points out that shredding and replacing 3 billion paper dollars every year is a huge waste of money. "At a time when we are staring down a record-breaking $1.3 trillion deficit, any common-sense measure that cuts billions needs to be given serious consideration."
Our own Pablo covered the Read the full story on TreeHugger
All Images Courtesy of Media Matters for America
Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global warming. But a by-the-numbers breakdown by Read the full story on TreeHugger
photo: Saad Akhtar/CC BY
China became the largest national carbon emitter in 2007, overtaking the US. Last summer China also became the world's largest consumer of energy. Currently its per capita carbon footprint (6.8 tons) is roughly similar to that of Italy and greater than those of France--meaning that on an average basis, acknowledging significant differences ba...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image: The Paradigm Project
It may sound unbelievable but it's true: smoke inhalation from cooking over an open fire kills 1.6 million adults and children yearly. Not only that, in Africa, for example, women walk up to 15 miles each trip to find wood for cooking, often carrying loads of 40 to 60 pounds under extreme conditions, plus deforesting already strained environments.
To tackle this simple but vital issue, The Paradigm Project is on a mission to distribute over 5 million fuel-efficient and cleaner-burning Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos by Michelle Kaufmann
Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.
...Read the full story on TreeHugger
photo: Tar Sands Action/CC BY
A new report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute echoes what opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have been saying on jobs and energy security: The Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos by Michelle Kaufmann
Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.
...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Kelp bass photo: Wikipedia
According to a new study coming from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, two of the most important recreational fisheries in Southern California have collapsed--barred sand bass and kelp bass. In terms of total biomass, each species has decreased 90% since 1980.
That's the dramatic...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image credit: The Vegan Zombie
Whether you dig Emeril's almond milk and dairy yoghurt milk shakes, or you prefer the Vegan Zombie's purist vegan fettuccine alfredo, almond milk has a lot going for it. But what if you can't find it in the stores? It turns out it's pretty easy to make your own. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch
Call me weird, but I enjoy frozen desserts more in the winter than I do during the summer. And after developing this Watermelon and Tomato Gazpacho recipe, I was excited to mix up watermelon and cilantro again. Enjoy this sorbet with some champagne. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
I am an eco entrepreneur, author, and admin here on People Planet Profit Blog. Let me know if you have any questions I am here to help. I’ll show you how to make a rewarding and profitable career in the Energy Industry... just contact me.
