Anthony said:
"That 10-20 seconds was for a smaller battery (either phone or laptop, I can't recall). The time they proposed for a car battery was something 5 min..." [read]
Anthony said:
"I think that projection is overly pessimistic. Consider: power plants are designed to last ~60 years. So between now and 2050, we will need to repl..." [read]
Sirerdrick said:
"... Or we could just make the poaching of poachers legal. Illegally kill an endangered animal and you risk having your own life taken...." [read]
tcolberg said:
"Thanks for the review. It's nice to see postings about products that allow us to get incrementally greener with all the things we need to do...." [read]
Sirerdrick said:
"Hate to break it to y'all (just kidding, I'm loving it!) but the Chinese have already beat the world to the punch. The BYD F3DM, which costs about..." [read]
Sirerdrick said:
"I second glittalogik's take...." [read]
The ultimate music confab tries to green the biz with model panelists.
Footage from Bruno, the follow-up to Sasha Baron Cohen’s Borat, will kick off the SXSW Music and Media Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas this Friday. Cohen's faux Austrian television pop culture hipster might set a wackier tone to the extravaganza. The 9-day trade show and party, focused on the edge of the Film, Interactive and Music scenes, features a feast of world music, showcasing 1,800 acts from 42 countries on 80 stages for the 100,000 attending the event. The event organizers practice sustainability and now offers green tips for the faithful.
The 17th annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicked off yesterday and will continue through March 22 with 136 eco-themed documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and children’s films. This year's festival has several films on oceans and sea life and a special Ocean Film Series, including the world premiere of The State of the Planet's Oceans, hosted and narrated by Matt Damon. Among other special guests, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Hedrick Smith will speak March 15 about water pollution and show clips from his upcoming film, Poisoned Waters, airing April on PBS Frontline, comparing the Chesapeake Bay to Puget Sound.
Local Currency Celebrates Pop Culture Icons
In these turbulent economic times, the idea of a local currency we can exchange with our neighbors and is somewhat insulated from the chaotic global markets starts to have an undeniable appeal. Matthew has written about legal local currency before, and the Totnes Pound has even become a collectors item on Ebay. But what if such currency could not only rejuvinate the local economy, but celebrate local culture too? In the UK, Transition Town Southampton members think they may have found the ideal way to do so - adorning their local notes with none other than local-boy-made-good Benny Hill! Click below the fold to check out the notes.
Brad Pitt and BMW's Hydrogen 7. Photo via Hybrid Cars.
From Green Hollyood's go-to car, the Toyota Prius, to Brad Pitt's BMW Hydrogen 7, these stars are donating their celebrity status to promoting green transport. We just hope they take Leonardo DiCaprio's lead and ditch the luxury jet. Hop on board with the 10 Hollywood Hunks and Their Hot Green Cars slideshow and find out who drives a 1909 Baker electric car, a Lexus RX 400h luxury SUV hybrid, and a Toyota RAV4.
"The question I've been asking is, why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?" This is Pete Postlethwaite speaking to us from the future, the year 2055 to be exact, where he is marooned alone, high in a tower above the melted arctic, quite possibly the only man left on earth. We learn he is living in the 'Global Archive' which captured all records of human life before we were wiped off the face of the earth. This stark introduction leaves us in no doubt that Franny Armstrong's new environmental movie is designed to scare us into action, but the question I'm asking is: will it in fact just scare us all rigid?
Mickey's parent company reveals environmental plans. Photo: The Walt Disney Company
Disneyland may not be the greenest place on earth but within 3- to 5-years the company plans to minimize Mickey's footprint, cutting emissions in half, reducing electricity consumption by 10 percent, and halving the garbage at its parks and resorts by 2013. Long-term, the aim is net zero waste and emissions, states the Walt Disney Company’s first comprehensive environmental plan from its new corporate responsibility report. Perhaps shareholders at the recent annual meeting are buoyed by the financial impact that reducing energy costs may have on the bottom line.
While the musical impact of Bjork is clear (no need to explain the genius) and the fashion impact apparent (no need to INSERT ANOTHER SWAN OUTFIT JOKE HERE), her global environmental impact is on the rise with today’s release of Nattura-Summer 2008 on iTunes. It’s the artist’s swan song to Iceland and the climate issues it faces (fine, I couldn’t resist the pun). More on Bjork after the jump, along with some updates on how other musicians (The Indigo Girls, Annie Lennox, Sigor Ros and more) are currently singing green.
Looks like Tinkerbell isn't the only pixie on a mission to protect the environment.
Meet the Planet Pixies, a trio of eco-friendly soft dolls for ages 3 and up that are designed to raise your ankle biter's awareness about the environment—and encourage him or her to make pro-planet decisions. In other words, the Bratz they ain't.
Photo of classic Coke can in the snow via D3 San Francisco @ flickr.
According to the Guardian, Coca-Cola is today in the UK publishing its report on the greenhouse gases emitted by making, chilling, transporting and disposing some of its products, following the Carbon Trust's method for carbon counting and labeling. The surprise? A 330 ml aluminum can of Coca-Cola embodies 170 grams of CO2e (equivalent), while Innocent’s 250 mango and passion fruit smoothie embodies 209 grams of CO2e. What’s going on?
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Überstix are a construction toy for kids of all ages. What makes them of interest to us is that they are purposely designed to work with common household and office debris like plastic bottles, cups, egg cartons and lolly sticks. The eight different Überstix connectors allow kids to develop their creativity and ingenuity, all the while working with the discards of society. Kinda like K’nex, (which were designed to make stuff from plastic straws), but taking that idea to the next level.
When the materials get past their prime they can be recycled and the Überstix connectors reused on a brand new construction project. What’s more, the UK distributor, Re:creation, worked with carbon consultants dcarbon8 to develop a lifecycle analysis of Überstix from creation to disposal, inclusive of construction and transport to Britain. Re:creation offset this carbon footprint by 110% to make the Überstix carbon negative. And what they believe is thus the world’s first Planet Positive toy. Which got us thinking ......
"The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March" HD Trailer from Michael Raisler on VimeoThe Green Long March
In 1934, thousands of young Chinese idealists began one of the history's largest grassroots efforts: a strenuous voyage across the countryside that invigorated peasants, gave birth to political leaders like Mao and launched modern China. It was the Long March, the mythic creation story of revolutionary China. Seventy years later, after development left a heavy footprint on the land and skies, thousands of students begin a new voyage across the countryside: the "Green Long March." A new must-see film tells its story.
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Poor Madame "M"! Madonna just can't seem to catch a break. The eco-minded blast her massive carbon footprint. Her ex-husband, Guy Richie, refers to her publicly as "It." Now, PETA singles her out as their worst dressed celebrity of 2009. The animal rights activists claim she is the biggest fur offender - by a mile. "We know she's on the prowl for a young cub, but someone needs to tell Madge that wearing fur doesn't make you a cougar," snipes PETA. Being the ultimate hipster and woman of class, the 50-year old Madonna dates a 22-year old male model. Other fur-flaunting celebs making Peta's most-hated list are the Olsen twins and Kayne West. Learn more: PETA
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Brad Pitt strolls through the Capitol to meet with Congressional leaders. Photo via: Flickr
While his wife was busy at work, Brad Pitt headed to the Mall. When the actor showed up on Capitol Hill, Congress seized the opportunity to hold a press conference. This wasn’t just the curious case of a showbiz star arriving for a photo op to meet President Obama. A Washington D.C. insider tells us the actor was accompanied by Hollywood producer Steve Bing and political strategist Chad Griffin to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about the Make It Right Foundation’s sustainable housing project in New Orleans. ...
Image: Jenn Pentland
A few weeks ago, in my post about Colonel Trash Truck, I was complaining about the scarcity of green stories for the preschooler. Well, after polling my fellow TreeHuggers it turns out I was wrong. There are oodles of stories with an environmental message that my three-and-a-half year old eats up. Some are old, some are new, some are cute and cuddly and some are frightening in their depiction of our current climate predicament.
Click through to see 10 green books that you and your preschooler will love to read.
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The World Fairtrade Banana Eating Record is to be set today and tomorrow. As part of the annual Fairtrade Fortnight, over 200,000 people have signed up to eat one Fairtrade banana each as part of a world record attempt.
Go bananas for Fairtrade. They are serious business: by eating them you will be supporting small farmers and workers in developing countries who rely on the Fairtrade price to earn a sustainable living and improve their communities....
On the flip side of Jimmy Fallon turning the Late Night Studio green can be found materials and items donated by "Late Night with Conan O’Brien" to the do-gooding, recycling Jawas from our local nonprofit Build It Green! (BIG) Items include a pair of hockey helmets topped with upside-down baby dolls in stars-and-stripes leotards. Like everything sold by BIG, profits from sales of O'Brien junk reusables will go toward environmental education classes and lectures. However after word of the sale got out on Sunday, team green moved to place the items on e-bay, that is, all but one with which they refuse to part....
Car-Free and Loving It!
Our friends at StreetFilms had a chat with Carla Saulter, aka Bus Chick (she has a blog on the Seattle Post Intelligencer's website: Bus Chick, Transit Authority). ...
Fox Television's Emmy-winning "24" counts down its carbon footprint.
“We know that we can’t solve the problem in 24 hours, but by making energy-conscious decisions on our set, we’re contributing to a solution,” states Keifer Sutherland, star of 24, in a Fox TV PSA addressing climate change. The producers of the hit series made a commitment to the environment a year ago, and after a delay from the writer’s strike, the program reached its goal this season. But it wasn’t enough to just “go green.” 24 boasts it’s the first-ever television show to go carbon neutral.
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From left: Jamie Foxx and Paris Hilton in Threads for Thought. Photos via Threads for Thought
Hot, red carpet green designers include Linda Loudermilk, Stella McCartney and Edun. With their silk bamboo blends and organic cotton voile, they’re sumptuous and sexy…but unless you have deep Gwyneth Paltrow style-pockets you probably can't afford them: These five eco clothing designers coveted by celebrities love reflect a slightly more realistic price point, while still maintaining that super stylish edge....
I've just viewed Wall•E, that precocious Disney/Pixar look at a future in which the robots are smart while the humans are fat blobs of over-pampered flesh unable to live on the (literally) trashed Earth. Other family members were mollified by the happy ending, but I never believed the captain could walk on those fat feet or the humans survive on their lame attempts at agriculture. So I'll need a few weeks before I'll be ready for Age of Stupid, a mixed documentary-animation where a fictional archivist in 2050 looks back to wonder why we humans were too stupid to collectively tackle climate change in time....
Hong Kong is afflicted by such heavy pollution -- much of it the byproduct of China's manufacturing south -- that twenty percent of residents have said they would leave if they could. Plus, pollution is estimated to cost the city HK$11 billion annually. But, like Beijing, the way the city measures that pollution, the Air Pollution Index, is outdated and lags way behind World Health Organization standards.
Greenpeace asked MC Yan, a popular Cantonese rapper, to challenge the Hong Kong government to come clean and correct on pollution. The gist, to paraphrase an older rapper, is that Hong Kong needs to check itself before it wrecks itself....
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon debuts with green set. Photo via NBC Universal
Following the grand tradition established by David Letterman of reusing Ed Sullivan’s old stage, Jimmy Fallon, the new host of NBC’s Late Night show, is recycling the old Tonight Show’s Studio 6B, where Johnny Carson helmed his gabfest pre-1972 in New York City. The new version, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which debuted March 2 at 12:35 a.m., gave the comic an opportunity to green the set, echoing NBC’s "Green is Universal" eco-policies. More info and behind-the-scene pics below the fold!
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A bag of bottles and rubbish awaits recycling. Photo by Roberta Cruger.
Inside the Innoventions pavilion at Disney World’s Epcot Theme Park, Elizabeth Royte, the author of Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It took a ride on the “Don’t Waste It” exhibit sponsored by Waste Management, Inc. This “interactive playground” offered a gander at the “Think Green” campaign of North America's largest garbage company. In a recent issue of NRDC’s magazine, OnEarth, her story, “Disney(waste)Land,” describes her trip through the trash cycle.
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Obsessed with Samantha Ettus
We love Mark Bittman for his sensible approach to cooking and eating. The name of his column in in the New York Times, The Minimalist, says it all. In a recent web interview, Bittman expounds on ecological eating and his philosophy on cooking. Check out the charmingly unedited video from Obsessed with Smantha Ettus. ...
The video for Turkish pop star Tarkan's song "Uyan."
Imagine if Justin Timberlake or Usher was still wildly popular...in 2018...and you might have some idea about the Tarkan phenomenon. Turkey's "Prince of Pop" has been breaking hearts and turning out hits for well over a decade, and last fall he capitalized on his stardom by releasing a single to benefit the campaign by the Doğa Derneği (Nature Association) to stop construction of the Ilısu Dam.
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The Gossip Girl hunk wants your jeans! Well sort of, the green-hearted actor knows a gently worn pair of jeans can be recycled for a good cause. The actor teamed up with Do Something and Aeropostale clothing shop to launch the second annual teens for jeans campaign. It's a national campaign to collect jeans for homeless teens. Drop off a pair of your old (but still wearable) jeans at any Aeropostale by March 1st and they'll get donated to to a local homeless shelter or charity. Last year the campaign collected over 125 thousand pairs. Learn More: Do Something
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Photo of classic Coke can in the snow via D3 San Francisco @ flickr.
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Überstix are a construction toy for kids of all ages. What makes them of interest to us is that they are purposely designed to work with common household and office debris like plastic bottles, cups, egg cartons and lolly sticks. The eight different Überstix connectors allow kids to develop their creativity and ingenuity, all the while working with the discards of society. Kinda like 
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Click on the image to view Ashley Judd's speech on Sierra's Club Web site.
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Poor Madame "M"! Madonna just can't seem to catch a break. The eco-minded blast her 
Brad Pitt strolls through the Capitol to meet with Congressional leaders. Photo via: 
Image: Jenn Pentland
A few weeks ago, in my post about 
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The World Fairtrade Banana Eating Record is to be set today and tomorrow. As part of the annual 
"The Greenhouse and the Shed" (2002) by Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit (Photo via 
Fox Television's Emmy-winning "24" counts down its carbon footprint.
“We know that we can’t solve the problem in 24 hours, but by making energy-conscious decisions on our set, we’re contributing to a solution,” states 
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon debuts with green set. Photo via 
A bag of bottles and rubbish awaits recycling. Photo by Roberta Cruger.
Inside the Innoventions pavilion at Disney World’s Epcot Theme Park, Elizabeth Royte, the author of 
Obsessed with Samantha Ettus
We love Mark Bittman for his sensible approach to cooking and eating. The name of his column in in the New York Times, 
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