8 hours ago in News & Current Events - Photo: Lotus Evora Lotus Electric Car in the Cards These words were recently spoken by Lotus CEO Michael Kimberley, making us think that being a supplier to Tesla Motors inspired the company to throw its hat in the ring. The concept EV is expected ...

tags: business politics, cars transportation, prototypes, electric cars, electric vehicles, hybrid cars, transportation

1 days ago in News & Current Events - Burj Dubai Tower, still under construction Via:TagPuan TreeHugger has posted many times on Dubai's sometimes "green," sometimes wretchedly-excessive building boom (please pardon one last requiem use of the now much out-of-favor "green"). The ...

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1 days ago in News & Current Events - Image courtesy of Blue Summit Invest Now that both a massive recession and the New Year are underway, it's time to start thinking about staying afloat financially. And now might be the best time ever to invest in green—there are a slew of ...

tags: business politics, consumerism, corporate responsibility, economics

1 days ago in News & Current Events - Photo courtesy of the LA Times The devastating, 2.6 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash slurry released in a Tennessee dike burst could perhaps have been avoided if TVA officials hadn't rejected costly fixes, a new report in the Tennessean ...

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2 days ago in News & Current Events - Photo courtesy of Fondation Brigitte Bardot Three years ago, customs agents discovered dozens of pieces of endangered baboons and monkeys hidden in a package filled with smoked fish at Kennedy Airport. (Guess huge pieces of monkey meat in fish ...

tags: business politics, news, animals, endangered species, religion

2 days ago in News & Current Events - Image courtesy of California Safe Schools To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the California Safe Schools organization gathered luminaries of the environmental health and children's education world together for a program called "Your Life is Now." ...

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2 days ago in News & Current Events - Chainsaw As Climate Adaptation Tool: Image credit:Chainsaw Art, Funny Part As the Canadian climate has warmed, pine beetles have spread across vast acreages of Canadian forest land: estimated to presently constitute 7 percent of Earth's total ...

tags: business politics, boreal forest logging, canada, climate change

3 days ago in News & Current Events - Once upon a time, I had a friend who was a glossy magazine writer working on a story for a yoga magazine. Reporting from Israel, she wanted to interview the Ethiopian-Israeli community in Beersheba and ask them why they weren't practicing yoga. ...

tags: business politics, activism, developing nations, israel

4 days ago in News & Current Events - Ten Large Retail Corporations Profiled Using EthicalQuote With the Pendulum Effect likely to come back in play during 2009, and regulatory teeth emerging in basic environmental and ethical regulatory regimes again (see explanatory post - The ...

tags: business politics, alternative energy, business, climate change, investment, world

4 days ago in News & Current Events - As a child growing up in Berkeley during the '60s, educator Patricia Donald loved reading National Geographic and Time magazines, where she says she learned about the pollution of the earth and its oceans, and the human-caused disruption of the ...

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4 days ago in News & Current Events - Image Via: Steve King While so many people are working so very hard to help educate kids about environmental issues and what they can do to make a difference, there’s a pair of Canadians who’ve been on the run, literally, since May 4 of last ...

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5 days ago in News & Current Events - Clean Coal Fans, Take Note As reported here on TreeHugger and on Discovery News last week: "Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge ...

tags: business politics, food health, alternative energy, news, clean coal, coal, pollution, tennessee, united states

5 days ago in News & Current Events - At a time when major U.S. companies are announcing job layoffs almost daily, the renewable energy industry is hiring new workers every day to build wind farms, install rooftop solar arrays, and build solar thermal and geothermal power plants. The ...

tags: business politics, alternative energy, business, climate change, green jobs, usa

6 days ago in News & Current Events - So it looks like a copy of Barack Obama's inauguration speech has been leaked. Here's an excerpt... “Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the ...

tags: business politics, government, policy making, usa

6 days ago in News & Current Events - Photo Unhindered by Talent @ flickr The question of where to put your money in 2009 is something even the biggies like Warren Buffet are definitely grappling with. The problems of the economy - astounding debt and an uncertain dollar - are such ...

tags: business politics, activism, economics

6 days ago in News & Current Events - This is what you get for your infrastructure investment dollars. Texas A&M Making cement creates 5% of the world's greenhouse gases. Putting it into roads promotes consumption of fossil fuels. And where is the infrastructure investment going? ...

tags: business politics, carbon dioxide, concrete, oil prices, politics, recession

7 days ago in News & Current Events - After the Tesla Model S, Here Comes BYD's F3DM... It was only a couple weeks ago that BYD's F3DM plug-in hybrid went on sale in China. At that time, BYD still said it had plans to "bring the F3DM to the US in 2010", but that has now changed ...

tags: business politics, cars transportation, science technology, electric cars, electric vehicles, hybrid cars, transportation

7 days ago in News & Current Events - Oil Shale Specimen. Image credit: Los Angeles Times, Michael Brands One estimate has oil shale extraction needing 10 barrels of water per barrel of oil produced. And, with Colorado's proposed oil shale operations at full capacity, by mid-century, ...

tags: business politics, alternative energy, business, climate change, usa

7 days ago in News & Current Events - photo by zorilla In 2007, the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association launched a campaign to “change the perceptions about the benefits of biofuels” by linking ethanol production with rising food costs and global food shortages. Ethanol producers ...

tags: business politics, biofuels, business, ethanol, food

9 days ago in News & Current Events - Some mountaintops removed for mining, photo courtesy of the NY Times You’ve got to love all these “Midnight Rules” that keep popping up—whether it’s the lifting of poultry farm regulations, or the latest egregious legislation: a ...

tags: business politics, conservation, epa, pollution