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FUEL – Change Your Fuel, Change the World
posted by Gordon Bengtson on 28 July 2009
Cleaning up fuel oil leaked from the tanker Prestige, Biarritz, France (43°40’N, 1°35’E) “Change your fuel, change the world” has been Josh Tickell’s message for decades now. A special screening of the multi-award winning documentary FUEL was hosted by Green Earth Media in downtown Honolulu at the Neal S Blaisdell Concert Hall. I was one of hundreds who [...]
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The Great American Debate: Propane vs. Charcoal Grilling—Six Links Investigates
posted by Katherine Kuzma-Beck on 28 July 2009
Feedlot in the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, United States (36°19’N, 120°16’W) With the summer finding its way to the northern hemisphere, the United States begins its age-old tradition of grilling in their backyard. As this country moves into a new age where sustainability through greener living is key, Steve Skoczen of sixlinks.org asks the questions—what’s more [...]
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Bilbao, Renewed: From Grimy to Green
posted by Deborah Hay on 27 July 2009
When it opened in 1997, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was instantly embraced as an architectural masterpiece. Frank Gehry’s curvaceous structure in iridescent titanium, a magnificent showcase of contemporary art, began drawing a million visitors a year to Spain’s northern coast. Bilbao itself, however, was a grimy reflection of its industrial past. The Nervion River, which bisects [...]
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A New Vision for Transportation
posted by David Bennett on 27 July 2009
Freeway interchange near the port of Yokohama, Honshu, Japan (35°27’ N, 139°41’ E) As the U.S. auto manufacturing industry slows to a halt, the evidence seems clear that car-centered transportation models are economically and environmentally unsustainable systems. However, the downfall of the traditional car industry presents us with exciting opportunities to re-envision cost effective transportation systems [...]
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The Living Roof
posted by Gordon Bengtson on 27 July 2009
Gardens of the Château de Villandry, Indre-et-Loire Department, France (47°20’N, 0°30’E). At the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Leyla Cabugos has been working on a “Green Roof Experiment.” When most people hear the term “Green Roof” they most likely associate it with solar panels or some sort of new “green” technology to increase energy efficiency. Well, this kind [...]
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Clips of Green Oil Nation at Bonnaroo
posted by Katherine Kuzma-Beck on 27 July 2009
While at Bonnaroo in the early days of June, Green Oil Nation artists Lauryn Yovino and Amy Saffner kept their passion of working with green-themed non-profit organizations by participating in art projects that used biodegradable materials to create community-themed projects. Using completely recycled cardboard and biodegradable paint festival-goers were invited to participate in painting sessions that [...]
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Global Warming and Climate Change: Political, Economic or Environmental
posted by Gordon Bengtson on 01 July 2009
Political, economic or environmental: these three areas are different ways to look at the occurrence of climate change From a political standpoint we can see it as a sticking point for different parties and concerned organizations. Some will say that socialism and communism harbor themselves in the environmental movement or is a threat to political freedoms [...]
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Seeking Refuge from Melting Ice Sheets
posted by David Bennett on 01 July 2009
Recent studies estimate that the IPCC’s projections of an 18 to 59 centimeter rise in sea level due to the melting of the Antartica and Greenland ice sheets is well within the range of possibilities during this century. In fact, a study conducted by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment estimates that a sea level rise [...]
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100 Mile Diet
posted by Gordon Bengtson on 17 June 2009
We are still in the infancy of this revolution. As I have discussed in previous posts we all need to start making individual changes on a regular basis. You want to do your part, but how? Are you still struggling with how to initiate this change? Well, I recently stumbled across an interesting challenge that encourages a [...]
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Living Uncontained
posted by Deborah Hay on 17 June 2009
At seaports all over the world, shipping containers – those long, steel boxes used to transport everything from pajamas to car parts –sit on loading docks, abandoned. Demand for them has declined, and on those occasions when they are needed, it’s less expensive to buy new ones than to ship the empties back to their [...]
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