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A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weathervideos
March 8, 2010 and it snowed in Barcelona. This is a city where the average low temperature for the month is 9 degrees. The very unusual snowstorm caused the city to semi-shutdown: the buses stopped running, schools shut down and some neighborhoods lost electricity.El Niño probably played a hand ...
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2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
What hackers can teach greenies and Sarah Palin as eco-modelblogs
I was publicly criticized by a few hackers* last week and after a bit of soul searching, I've decided their action-oriented ethos may be what's needed to help fix what's wrong with the fight against climate change. (*I'm using the term hacker in reference to computer ...
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3 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 6 comments
An EV maker on the end of gas and the new electric eravideos
Neal Saiki is an aeronautical engineer who has helped create
transportation solutions for NASA (including a human-powered
helicopter), so he knows what he's talking about when he insists that soon
we'll all be changing what we drive. "The era of gas cars which lasted about 100 years is ...
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4 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
America's 1st carbon neutral community?videos
According to the IPCC, the point of no return for global warming -date when we need to stop the rise in global carbon emissions to prevent irreversable damage- is 2015. Given this is less than a decade, many have decided not to wait for their federal governments to act. Communities ...
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7 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the doornews
A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 2 comments
Can whitewash, tinted windows & closed doors save the earth?blogs
The fight against climate change has taken a rather low-tech turn lately. Obama's Energy Secretary Stephen Chu wants to fight climate change by whitewashing the world's roofs roads and pavements.California's air regulators are requiring automakers, beginning in 2012, to install sun-reflecting glass in the windows of ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Thoreau's simple life at Waldenvideos
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1851 at a time when he was one of the few thinking about environmental conservation. Six years previous he had embarked on a now-famous experiment in simple living. He'd gone to the woods outside Boston to ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Accidental vegetarians: the faircompanies family 2 years invideos
When we first dreamed up the idea for a website focused on the environment, we ate an average American/Spanish diet: chicken/pork/beef/fish with pasta/potatoes/rice, plus vegetables and dairy. Now- 2 years later- meat is nearly gone from our diet. It happened slowly, but it was ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Why I tried kangaroo meat: a faircompanies video blogvideos
Given the UN's warning that rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, the most balanced diet for the Earth is a vegetarian one. Convincing people to cut out meat-eating entirely may be more of a longterm goal, but in the meantime there is much room to reduce ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Flying: who's prepared for greener skies?videos
Air travel is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and this hasn't gone unnoticed: the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is urging the UK government to introduce cigarette-style health warnings on all advertising for air travel warning that "Flying Causes Climate Change." The UK's Tory ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments