EcoTech Daily Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #195 and it’s being hosted by EcoTech Daily, a site that’s dedicated to bringing us the lastest and greatest in green technoloy, gadgets, and news. At EcoTech Daily, you can track the hottest CleanTech startups, learn about alternative energy technologies that can power your community

Will Climate Change be "Obama’s Waterloo"?

(Ridiculous) image via Radioactive Liberty

Slate’s Christopher Beam thinks it could. While many pundits and politicians are wondering if health care reform will be “Obama’s Waterloo” (some of whom, including the man who coined the term, are determined to make it so), Beam says that the battle for climate legislation is more likely to take that dubious mantle….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Himalayas, Africa Facing Climate Change-Induced Water Shortages – Yemen’s Already Rioting

photo: Anna Pearson via flickr

The focus keeps getting placed on the impact of global climate change on world water supplies: Oxfam highlights the effect of water shortages and declining crop yields in Nepal; IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri comments on how thirsty Africa could become; and, Reuters writes from Yemen on a gro…Read the full story on TreeHugger

New York Times Behind the Times on LEED

You can get your LEED plaque in any number of different materials, but whatever kind you put up, it won’t guarantee that the New York Times will understand what it means. They do an “expos

Inflatable Solar Panels Zip Together To Power Most Anything

Illustration by Studio Formwork

This lightweight, inflatable solar panel concept brings renewable energy access to any building and without that pesky renovation.

Each eye-shaped piece has a white foam shell that measures 4 feet by 2.5 feet. Inside the foam housing is an inflatable polymer lined with <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/53-m…Read the full story on TreeHugger

"The best thing for the Amazon…bomb all the roads"

Original, cleared and planted Amazon forest, photo: Samuel M Beebe/Ecotrust, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

That’s how a new opinion piece by Professor William Laurance of James Cook University in New Scientist opens. They aren’t his words (instead those of Brazilian scientist Ene…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Indianapolis Power & Light Proposes Modest Midwestern Feed-in Tariff Program

Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL), an electric utility that provides retail electric service to 470,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in and around Indianapolis, Indiana, proposed a pilot feed-in tariff program in a regulatory filing earlier this year.

Weird Solar Device of the Day: Hanging Basket Rotator

Images via BasketRotator

This is an unusual use for solar power, but it actually does make some sense. It’s a solar powered hanging basket rotator. Using the power of the sun, it’ll spin your basket for you so that your plants get their fair share of daylight. But, do evenly exposed hanging plants justify the use of solar cells and electronics?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper

Sunlight is a non exhaustible source of energy without contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Still it is miles away from replacing the fossil fuels. Many reasons can be sited. One of its biggest disadvantages is it is still out of reach for the common man and it has a long break-even period. Unless [...]
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Readers, Send Us Photos of Your Most Interesting Farmers’ Market Finds!

Credit NatalieMaynor via Flickr

Barter a bushel of berries — strawberries, loganberries, and gooseberries are in season — down to a dime at your local farmers’ market? Try a farmer’s scrumptious recipe for cooking courgettes? Find a seedless six-foot sunflower? Prove it! If you’re visiting your local farmers’ market — I’ll be visiting mine in Union Square<…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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