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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Earthquake Hits Eastern Coast

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:23 PDT

An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Far East on Friday, sending tremors that prompted evacuations as far away as Moscow, more than 4,000 miles to the west of the epicenter. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Southern Co. team weighing changes from renewables

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:30:23 PDT

The Southern Co. is brainstorming ways it could more widely incorporate renewable energy, particularly solar power, into its traditional business model, CEO Thomas Fanning said this week. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Wave Energy Converters: Large-Scale Renewable Energy

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:02 PDT

Energy produced using the movement of water—hydroelectric energy—is one of the most efficient ways to create electricity. The problems with hydroelectric energy come from its non-energy-related side effects, like flooding people out of their homes and creating reservoirs full of organic plant and animal matter that decays underwater and produces mercury. But what if we[...]

Major Reform of Texas Oil and Gas Rules Wins Favor from Environmental Groups

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:25 PDT

Newly Revised Rule 13 Signals Progress Being Made to Address Safety Concerns with Hydraulically Fracked Wells

After the flood: From Haiti to Britain, one man has captured the devastation of our increasingly deluged lands

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:25:11 PDT

After the flood: From Haiti to Britain, one man has captured the devastation of our increasingly deluged lands [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Alarming frog and toad decline across the U.S.

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:40:21 PDT

North American frogs, toads and other amphibious animals are disappearing so quickly that they could become extinct from their natural habitats by 2033. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]

Zen and the art of bridge maintenance

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:29 PDT

The collapse of an Interstate 5 bridge in Washington state Thursday night offered a wake-up call about the sorry state of disrepair in which we've left our country's auto-centric transportation system. But all the talk about aging bridges and infrastructure[...]

HSBC orders review of its lending to rainforest logging companies

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:21:03 PDT

Following allegations that it has been financing land-grabbing of indigenous territories and destruction of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo, HSBC said it will conduct an audit of its relationships with logging companies to see whether its lending has violated the bank's environmental policy. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Educate Generation Z

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:53 PDT

The next generation those born after 2001 will be the most connected ever, in terms of technology and on a world wide scale. Not only will they be facing all the issues that we as parents and parents-to-be are facing, like the effects of the Iraq war but any political and social decisions made today will have serious outcomes to their future. They are also supposed to[...]

Haunted Zoos

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:53 PDT

Halloween is about tricks and treats, but do children really learn anything during this holiday? They learn how to dress up in scary costumes, and they learn that some things are not what they seem. But at the end of the night, they usually end up with a pain in their stomach rather than an intelligent thought in their head. Halloween is meant to be frightening and[...]

Barrick Gold: 'We regret environmental problems, we'll comply'

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:43 PDT

Canadian mining company Barrick Gold Corporation said today that it will comply with the details of the resolution of Chile's Superintendent for the Environment (SMA) in which the authority fined the company US$ 16.4 million. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original[...]

Fracking accident leaks benzene into Colorado stream

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:20:55 PDT

To Walk or to Climb

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:47 PDT

To walk on two or four limbs, that is the question... Jeremy M. DeSilva an anthropologist at Worcester University in Massachusetts has published Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins, in the peer-reviewed journal, Proceeding of the National Academies of Sciences of the USA current issue. The study includes data gathered by[...]

UMaine unveils offshore wind data buoy

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:20:59 PDT

A data-collection buoy that can be plopped in the ocean and used to determine the suitability of remote locations for offshore wind farms is ready for real-world testing, the University of Maine announced Friday. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Shipwrecked coal ship is now home to a floating forest

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:20:59 PDT

Its contrast of rust and lush vegetation against the city skyline acts as an easy allegory for degradation and renewal.

The week in transportation: Plug-in milestones, Teslas, 3d-printed bikes, Sparks, stupid tweets, etc

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:10:58 PDT

It's Friday, the week is almost over. Time to look back at some highlights from this week in transportation!

Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers' feet

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:50:50 PDT

Shutterstock Though it carries major supervillain cred, placing a scientific research station atop an Arctic ice floe in an era of global warming is a dicey proposition — even for[...]

The Week in Design: I <3 New York, but readers love those tiny homes

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:29 PDT

Much of the design coverage this week came from New York Design Week, although the two top stories are about tiny houses.

100 NYC restaurants commit to less food waste

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:29 PDT

With more composting and recycling, the city's eateries aim to send less to the landfill.

This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:45 PDT

Screenshot/PPE Up close to the Canadian border, on the New York side of Lake Champlain, Pedal Power[...]

Canada's Barrick Gold fined $16M for environmental violations

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:20 PDT

The Superintendent of Environment (SMA) in Chile imposed a fine of US$ 16.4 million to Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for environmental violations at the gold-silver-copper project known as "Pascua Lama" and halted construction of the project. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Cockroaches are evolving away from sweet tooth to avoid human traps

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:40:51 PDT

Urban environments are putting new kinds of evolutionary pressures on many species, including cockroaches.

Swedish architects design stove for Kenya

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:40:51 PDT

Claesson Koivisto Rune are architects of everything from prefabs to lamps. Can they solve a huge problem in Africa?

Jaffna aquifer depleting from overuse

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:30 PDT

The single limestone aquifer, which is the main source of freshwater in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula, is gradually depleting through overuse, researchers say. "The area suffers from severe groundwater imbalance which might reach crisis proportions in the future," Shanti de Silva, one of two scientists who carried out the research for the agricultural department of[...]

Awesome old cookbook shows that the 1904 raw food movement was really into meat and cream

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:20:52 PDT

Americans have a long tradition of dreaming up radical ideas for uber-healthy diets and trying to convince other people that their lives and bodies will be transformed if they just change what they're putting in their mouth. The country's first raw food restaurant opened in Los Angeles in 1917 and stayed open for 25 years. There were certainly some people who promoted[...]

2 Holiday Inns Save $180 Per Room with Energy Management

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:11:12 PDT

Onity was selected by Larson Companies to provide its SensorStat DDC energy management system to two Holiday Inn hotels in Eau Claire, Wisc. Onity is part of United Technologies (UTC)... Read the full story from Energy Manager Today

According to Allison Arieff, Prefab Lives!

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:11:12 PDT

A decade ago she saw it coming and now it might actually finally be arriving.

Poverty moves to the suburbs

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:50:53 PDT

At one time, escaping the dirty, dangerous city was a privilege. Now the wealthy are flocking back for newly "livable," walkable neighborhoods that are safer than they've been in decades. New[...]

The Many Benefits of a Whole Foods Diet: An Interview with the Co-Author of Whole

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:50:53 PDT

Tornadoes — another argument for American exceptionalism

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:50:52 PDT

Shutterstock Joplin, Mo. By now[...]