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Image via YouTube video A really neat time lapse video put together by Oregon State University alum Don Pettit shows footage from his time on the International Space Station. This one shows Earth from day to night, and you can spot everything from auroras...
MIT’s Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Solar cells are intended to mimic the photosynthesis of plants — converting light into energy in the most efficient manner possible. But what other characteristics of plants could be handy for the renewable...
Image credit: After Gutenberg When I posted a video of a mainstream farmer trying to green his operations , commenter Adam suggested that he was just doing it for economic reasons. That’s an observation that gets bandied about a lot here at TreeHugger—that...
Image credit: The Association to Preserve the Earth, via Japan for Sustainability Harris Teeter may be stretching the concept of local food more than most, and industrial agriculture may be making efforts to go green , but with the 100 Mile Diet still...
Image credit: Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis. Eliminating waste. Walking instead of driving. Taking ” Staycations ” instead of flying. Fixing things instead of buying new. Car-pooling. All these things that we talk about on TreeHugger...
Not exactly Scott Adams’ new green home, but the one he designed for Dilbert. Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about his new house in the Wall Street Journal: The greenest home is the one you don’t build. If you really want to save the...
Photo: NASA Who Knew Deserts Were Dusty? Dust is annoying enough to clean in my small apartment, I can’t imagine the headaches that it must give the owners of large solar farms. Dusty solar panels capture fewer photons and thus produce less power,...
Simulating a colossal volcanic eruption every 18 months would just delay sea level rise. Space Shuttle (Mission STS 43) photograph of the Earth over South America taken on August 8, 1991, showing double layer of Pinatubo aerosol cloud (dark streaks)...
Photo via Love the Earth Film Musician Imogen Heap announced plans to create and score a nature documentary — with a twist: She’s asking fans to shoot their own footage of the world around them and submit it. “It could be a sunrise...
