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eco

Algae Biofuel Grown in Bioreactors Has 3.7x the Carbon Footprint of Petro-Diesel: Study

July 30, 2010

photo: jurveston via flickr

Algae biofuels are probably the most touted future hope to replace large amounts of petroleum-based liquid fuels with a renewable source. However, a new study in Energy and Fuels shows that when you grow that algae in bior…

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GM Wants to Convince You the Volt is Better Than Other Electric Cars (Video)

July 30, 2010

The Chevy Volt will soon be launched commercially, and so GM is intensifying its campaign to convince potential buyers. Here are only some of the recent Volt news items to hit the wire: a

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Modern-Day Captain Ahab Spears Whale With Cruise Ship

July 30, 2010

Image credit: AP Photo/NOAA

The Sapphire Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, struck a 43 foot long female humpback whale on Wednesday, causing it to become lodged in an undersea protuberance of the bow.

The ship, en route to Juneau…

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Weekly Greens – July 30th

July 30, 2010

Image by Constantin B. With all the information that comes across your plate during a typical week (hmmm…does anyone really have a typical week?!), how are you supposed to remember it all. It’s sometimes hard to sort through everything or e…

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Not Waiting For National Action, Western Climate Initiative Carbon Trading Scheme Moves Forward

July 30, 2010

photo: Franco Folini via flickr

Even though it often seems that even mentioning climate change or pricing carbon on a national basis is an utter nonstarter, here’s another example of how states aren’t waiting for the Feds to get their act together: T…

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Why We Need to Reform the Filibuster to Fight Climate Change

July 30, 2010

They may seem like two disparate topics: climate change and an archaic Senate procedural rule. But they have more in common than you might think. Thanks to the Senate filibuster rule, essentially any piece of legislation needs 60 votes, a super-major…

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Should The Galapagos Be Taken Off The Endangered Sites List?

July 30, 2010

Tourists meet Tortoise. Credit Brian Merchant

Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

If anything, the problems have only grown more complex and fundamental — there’s now a growing island population th…

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Would Simply Slowing Down Our Travel & Shipping Help Kick Our Oil Habit?

July 30, 2010

Making a slow boat look fast… photo: Neal McQ via flickr.

Having assessed the overall picture of how our patterns of global shipping and global aviation use tons of fuel, leave a high environmental footprint, and how technological changes can help …

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A Decade of Prius: 1.8 Million Sold, Half in the U.S.

July 30, 2010

Photo: Michael Graham Richard

The Little Car that Could
The Toyota Prius hybrid has been sold in the U.S. for 10 years (even longer in Japan, where it was first introduced in 1997), and during that decade this car went from a small niche player consi…

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How Can We Reduce Oil Consumption & Still Ship Goods and Ourselves Around the Globe?

July 30, 2010

Container ship photo: Daniel Ramirez; airliner photo: Bob MacInnes

Two things which I think are worth keeping front and center when discussing how we wean ourselves off our petroleum addiction: Travel between nations is good; trade between nations is…

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