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- Fundamentally "Flawed" CDC Report Failed to Mention Formaldehyde Can Cause Cancer
Image from factoryseashellA (dismal) chapter of American history most of us would gladly like to put behind us -- Hurricane Katrina and the government's pathetic response -- seems to be rearing its ugly head again. The latest revelation, according to a new story written by ProPublica's Joaquin Sapien: A study released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2007 was based on a "fundamental sci...
Source: - added 9 hours ago - No Bag Ban in Sweden: Instead, More Plastic Recycling
Soft plastic sneaks into hard plastic stream, and in the coming system that's okSwedes do love to be all things green. But amazingly, there's no city or municipality in Sweden that has followed the green trend of banning plastic bags. Ban Bag Would Rile ConsumersThere's two simple reasons for that: 1) in Sweden you must put your garbage into the can inside a plastic bag, and 2) that bag more than ...
Source: - added 58 hours ago - Saying No To Genetically Modified Foods In Japan
No genetically modified crops are grown commercially in Japan, perhaps one of the countries in the world with the strongest consumer opposition to "unnatural" GM foods. Yet, Monsanto and the US government continue their shameless push for the stuff. Again and again, imported foods have been found to be contaminated with illegal GM varieties, including the infamous Starlink corn, that had not been ...
Source: - added 58 hours ago - Matt Simmons: Peak Oil Will Dwarf Financial Crunch Soon
Oil Banker Warns of Energy CrisisJames Howard Kunstler is not the only one who sees parallels between the current financial crisis and a coming energy crisis. Matt Simmons, head of the oil investment bank Simmons and Company, has long been a prophet of peak oil, silencing the Fast Money team with his dire warnings ...
Source: - added 58 hours ago - Earthwatching: Seen Any Good Green Movies Lately?
Image credit::Tumbling Green Popcorn, Flickr, a2thegeezusBy George GrattanEarlier this week I joined a number of Earthwatch colleagues and other interested filmgoers at a screening of the documentary Flow, an emotionally powerful (but narratively flawed) examination and indictment of the privatization of fresh water supplies throughout the world. When the lights came up, I was struck by two main i...
Source: - added 58 hours ago - Why Pricing Carbon Isn't Enough
The successful auction of 12.5 million permits by 10 U.S. Northeastern states brought the cap-and-trade system to the limelight this week.Although an important first step, RMI co-founder Amory Lovins believes cap-and-trade systems merely skim the surface of what ultimately needs to happen to accelerate reductions in carbon. Said Lovins in his recent conversation with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper...
Source: - added 82 hours ago - Friggebod Fun: The Mini House by Jonas Wagell
Friggebods are small swedish cottages; they don't need building permits for less than 150 square feet. This design by Jonas Wagell is available for purchase for 12,200 euros plus freight, with a solar power module for only 1,400 euros. A bath and kitchen module is also available....
Source: - added 82 hours ago - Video: Crazy Guys Jump Off Wind Turbine
Base Jumping Championships Launch from Wind TurbineWe're into finding multiple uses for all kinds of objects here at TreeHugger ' from transformer furniture to roofs that double up as bee habitat, by building numerous functions into every day objects and st...
Source: - added 106 hours ago - City Solar Tour Makes Its Way to San Francisco
Today the City Tour for Solar made its stop in solar loving San Francisco to educate the city about solar options. The Tour began August 1st and will travel to fifty US cities in one hundred days to teach local citizens and city leaders about sun power. More on the Tour and its San Francisco stop below the fold....
Source: - added 106 hours ago - Schwarzenegger Invites Global Leaders to Talk Carbon Caps
Last week, California's Governor Schwarzenegger announced a meeting in November with several global leaders to discuss greenhouse gas emissions and carbon cap-and-trade markets. California and the other states in the Western Climate Initiative plan to cut carbon emissions by 15 percent from the 2005 level by 2020. More on the meeting below the fold....
Source: - added 106 hours ago