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The Story of Stuff Comes to Print

March 11, 2010

If you a blogger, web media producer, or some other kind of internet content creator, it’s hard not to admire Annie Leonard. She, along with the folks at Free Range Studios, took the rather weighty topic of lifecycle analysis, and turned it into a 20-minute video that frames the subject in a manner for almost [...]

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Don’t Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming

March 11, 2010

sun clouds and bridge photo
photo: chantrybee via flickr.

Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum–like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse gases. That’s the word from a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in <a href="http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Can a Soccer Ball Teach Us about Embodied Energy?

March 10, 2010

When I stumbled upon this video of the production of an Adidas 2010 World Cup soccer ball, it struck me as a huge lesson in embodied energy. Embodied energy is a term to describe all of the energy that goes into the production of a product, whether it be a carrot, a book, a pair [...]

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