Environment

Coastal Development, Environment

Green Sand (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/03-4

Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Switches from Indoor Ambiance to Emergency Flashlight

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Photo via Tech On Sanyo's Eneloop Solar Charger has been on our radar for awhile, and we like watching what new devices they come up with. They're now planning on putting out a rechargeable lamp designed specifically to be a multi-tasker. Anytime a device is made to serve more than one function, our ears perk up. Plus, the interesting shape of this thing is enough to garner some attention. ...

• Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Switches from Indoor Ambiance to Emergency Flashlight - Brainicane
• Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Switches from Indoor Ambiance to Emergency Flashlight - OneToRemember and EnergyBook

Un vs. Anti

Skeptic's Corner (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Yesterday's Old T-Shirt, Today's Cool Reusable Bag

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Participants in the Istanbul bag-making workshop. Photos courtesy of Buğday . Paper bags aren't too commonly used in Turkey, but shopkeepers just love giving out plastic ones -- for a tiny item that you could easily tuck into your purse or a pocket, for a single soda you'll probably just drink on the way home anyway, for a few nectarines that are already in another plastic bag . I've gotten used...

• Yesterday’s Old T-Shirt, Today’s Cool Reusable Bag - OneToRemember and EnergyBook

Will Exelon Job Cuts Derail Long Term Workforce Planning Strategies?

Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

This past Monday an Exelon representative at the ANS Annual Conference in Atlanta provided a compelling description of efforts they have underway to attract and retain nuclear talent. Three days later the company announced they will eliminate 500 jobs , including 400 from their corporate staff. It raises eyebrows because the company is viewed by others in the industry as already "lean" and...

A Student Conference for Young People Interested in Nuclear Careers

Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

"Live" from the 2009 ANS Conference in Atlanta, GA. Download the Video File Here John Wheeler and guest co-host Rod Adams of " The Atomic Show " meet with a group of students from the University of Michigan to discuss the ANS Student Conference. The student conference will be held in April 2010 at the University of Michigan. For more info go to the conference web site at http://www.studentans2010.org...

How The Smart Grid Works

NewEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

This is a wonderful little animation explaining what’s so smart about the Smart Grid. For good reasons, Duke Energy is not one of the anti-coal movement’s favorite utilities but they deserve credit for this little bit. From DukeEnergyMediaCtr via YouTube.

It Can Happen And It Can Happen Here

NewEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

There have been cultures on this earth that thought they were the pinnacle of modernity and couldn't imagine not enduring whatever came along until along came a small change in climate that rendered them archeology. That, and nothing less, is what's at stake today. From AlesandroLopesVideo via YouTube.

Street Legal Golf Carts On the Rise

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

photo via Flickr As a native of South Carolina, sharing the road with golf carts is nothing new. With the highest number of golf courses per capita in the United States, we’ve taken our golf carts off-course for ages. Now the rest of the country is finally catching on....

• Street Legal Golf Carts On the Rise - OneToRemember and EnergyBook

U.S. Military Targets Toxic Enemy #1: Hexavalent Chromium

Green Options (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

If hexavalent chromium doesn’t ring a bell, think chrome, the stuff that puts the shine on everything from bathroom faucets to motorcycles. If that still doesn’t help, maybe Erin Brockovich does. In the 1990’s, the former legal clerk fought to expose hexavalent chromium contamination in drinking water, in the small California town of Hinkley. The result was a record-breaking settlement...

Modoki El Niño increasing frequency and North Atlantic tropical cyclones

The Way Things Break (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Place holder: “Impact of Shifting Patterns of Pacific Ocean Warming on North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones”. Abstract here. Paper here. [Judy isn't being blasted on CA as much as I'd have guessed (with some notable exceptions).]

FROM OUR READERS: Energy tax - Opinion...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

FROM OUR READERS: Energy tax - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com As citizens of this nation, we should all maintain adequate knowledge of what transpires within our government. In these difficult days, people should have focused their attention on the massive energy bill that was pushed through the House of Representatives in an absurdly rushed manner last month. The president, leaders of his administration,...

German summer storms leave two dead, many injured

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Stuttgart, Germany - Heavy storms raging across Germany on Friday night killed two people and left dozens injured. Hot, humid summer weather caused storms, hail and torrential rain showers across the southwest of the country. ...

Quote Of The Day: Sarah Palin "should also lead the nation's mothers to oppose mandating replacement of incandescent light bulbs with the new mercury poison gas bulbs."

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Peter Ferrara, Harvard Law, Class of 1979. Image credit: Harvard Law Bulletin, David Deal . Peter Ferrara, who served under US Presidents Reagan & Bush, just tossed an Independence Day stink bomb at tree huggers and climate realists. Fox News, FoxForum, carried his opinion piece, " Sarah Palin Outsmarts the Left " in which he listed good things that Sarah Palin can do for environment...

Cartoonist Shows Sardonic Eco-Humor is Alive and Well

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Image via Seppo Leinonen Ecopreneurist is highlighting some art from Seppo Leinonen, a cartoonist out of Finland, who perfectly captures that tongue-in-cheek tone that makes acknowledging the environmental destruction we're imposing on the planet nearly digestible. ...

• Cartoonist Shows Sardonic Eco-Humor is Alive and Well - OneToRemember and EnergyBook

Preserving Przewalski's Horse

morrisanimal | 07/01/2009

Dr. Wynne Collins didn't set out to save the Przewalski's horse—declared extinct in the wild 40 years ago. But today, as a doctoral student at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, Collins works hard to preserve the world's last truly wild horse. Her early research efforts were funded, in part, by one of Morris Animal Foundation's (MAF) first Fellowship...

Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/19/2009

The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...

Solar Panels, Solar Energy Trends

gamishev | 03/03/2009

The demand for the solar energy is on the rise these days. The increased concern about the Global Warming and various widespread forms of pollutions has resulted in growing concern about the alternative sources of energy. There has been observed a dire...