President of Iceland: Our Clean Energy Economy Helped Us Survive the Financial Crisis
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Over the last few years, President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has seen disasters both financial and environmental wrack his tiny island nation of Iceland. The Nordic country was at the center of the economic meltdown in 2007, when each of its three major banks collapsed. Since then, Iceland made international headlines when it nationalized its banks in response to the crash, when a massive volcanic eruption grounded airplanes around the world, and for its continued strides toward...Read the full story on TreeHugger
This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have completed their arc through our inboxes and Facebook walls. But this is too effing funny. ...
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What do you do when you don't have a tree to build a treehouse in? Answer: build a "treeless" treehouse. This is exactly what New York-based artist, musician and treehouse designer 
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The Northport Power Station—a natural gas and oil electrical power station located on Long Island New York—has been a significant landmark on the New York landscape. It is the largest oil-fired power plant on the East Coast and the second most pollution generating plant.
For decades since 1967, the Northport Power Station has been a source of local and general pollution. The New York Environmental Coalition group issued a report in 2005, that the power plant was the second most polluting plant in the Northeast and the number one in Long island and New York....
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Chef Christian Escribà making sugar hair... an alternative to nylon? Photo Credit: Poldo Pomés, oh!BCN
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