I think I’ve still got a few years to go before I’m on the lookout for green (eco-friendly, that is) countertops. However, from what I hear, Corian countertops may be the way to go if you’re in the market for these. Why? Corian countertops (aka, solid surface countertops) have several features that make them relatively […]
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I’m not going to lie, wine is not my expertise, but this is a cool story. Wine is a major part of our world, and it would be helpful if we could green it up a bit. The folks over at Micro Matic seem to have a solution — wine on tap. From what I hear, this
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16 years to change course and avoid six degrees Celsius of warming (or almost 11 degrees Fahrenheit), “which would create a planet straight out of science fiction,” as Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, notes. Bill McKibben’s rockin’ Rolling Stone article “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math” has gotten a stunning half-million views or so. If you
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This was recently reposted over on CleanTechnica, from the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), but I thought it made for a great Planetsave repost as well. It was written by SACE Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith. The lead-in video is from the insightful and super talented Peter Sinclair. Check it out: “Welcome to the rest of
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The London Olympics apparently has a zero-waste pledge. Yep, it plans to host one of the biggest events on the planet without sending anything to the landfill. Pretty astounding. Who knew? “To achieve this rather lofty eco-goal, all packaging used to put on the games will be color-coded to match color-coded trash bins,” Take
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If you follow the Washington Post, or are a political junkie, perhaps you’ve already seen this story, but if you haven’t, it’s a must read. A couple of moderate, centrist, or even conservative political scientists recently tore into the extremist Republican leadership of today, spelling out the simple fact that Congress and our whole
London’s Somerset House recently hosted Gideon Mendel’s “Drowning World” photo exhibit. The pictures are stunning. Here are just a few: For more, check out the Guardian slideshow.
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This is an excellent, short video on connecting the dots between global warming, climate change, extreme weather, agriculture, and economic loss. It’s not actually brand new, but it’s still a must-watch: h/t Climate Progress
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Thinking about going vegan but not sure about what you’d cook? How about an online vegan cooking class? Here’s a bit on some online vegan cooking classes offered by a contributor to sister site Eat Drink Better: “If you’ve ever wanted to improve your cooking skills or learn more about vegan cooking but didn’t
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Via the always excellent Dr. Joe Romm of Climate Progress: Last week I wrote that “Every Network Gets Extreme Weather Story Right.” The ABC News weather editor even ended his story, “Now’s the time we start limiting manmade greenhouse gases.” But the major networks only devote 3 minutes each to what is in fact the “Climate
OCI Solar Power and CPS Energy have just signed a deal to build the largest municipal utility solar project in the US. The project will be over 400 MW in size. In addition, it will create over 800 long-term jobs and “drive an estimated $700 million in economic impact each year.” “As part of its plan, OCI
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Here are 10 top global warming denier cartoons from around: h/t Climate Progress & Global Warming is Real
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One of those very inconvenient facts that global warming deniers have to avoid like the plague is that record highs are far outnumbering record lows these days. In the US, from the beginning of 2012 through late June, the ration was 9:1, Climate Central recently reported. In the image below, you can actually watch
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I’m not going to lie, I didn’t watch the video. The opening picture of the Feelgood Style post on this matter was enough for me: Here’s the full Feelgood Style post, Human Undergoes Animal Testing for Animal Rights: Performance artist Jacqueline Traides agreed to publicly undergo animal testing techniques to show what animals endure in
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Here’s some good news for a change: BPA can no longer be included in sippy cups and baby bottles in the US! From sister site Eat Drink Better: After a long struggle between government, industry, and consumer advocacy groups, FDA announced [last week] that it would ban controversial BPA from children’s sippy cups and baby bottles.
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I’m sure this is not what global warming naysayers want to hear, but an iceberg about twice the size of Manhattan has just broken off of a Greenland glacier, Petermann Glacier. This was actually predicted by scientists last Fall, but as you should well know by now, scientists are just money-hungry, greedy, lying rascals
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Underwater human noise is a great threat to whales. It disrupts their communication, mating, navigation, and more. Unfortunately, this threatens whale species that are already on the brink of extinction due to whaling. The good news is that whales seem to have the ability to “plug their ears” and block out man-made noises. Well,
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Apparently, an Animal Planet program — ‘Mermaids: The Body Found’ — has confused a number of people and convinced them that mermaids once existed. I haven’t seen the program from the Discovery Network branch, but apparently it got so much attention that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) felt compelled to put out a statement
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We’ve covered the benefits of going vegetarian or vegan many times here on Planetsave, but I don’t think we could cover it too many times. Here’s a wonderful infographic on “veganism and the environment” that someone from the infographic company that made this for Culinary Schools:
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Normal bikes get a whopping 984 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent), and that might be as good as it gets for green transportation (well, it can actually be much better if the bicyclist is vegetarian). However, I’m sure electric bikes are also up there for such efficiency… and who knows, maybe they even beat
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It isn’t hard to see that our society’s current way of using the environment is unsustainable. Nearly everyone recognizes that significant change is needed. The problem is that we’re tempted to look to the government or to large corporations for that change, while not recognizing that a sustainable society requires adjustments at every level. We
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I received this video above from one of our readers on our Planetsave Facebook page a couple weeks ago. Love this music! Can’t say that I understand the point of the video, but maybe with a few watches I’d get it. Definitely a fan of the music and singing though, so thought it made
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As he and all of us rightfully shouldn’t be…. Waging Nonviolence recently conducted a wonderful interview with climate superstar Mohamed Nasheed, former president of Maldives. Here are some striking words (refreshingly but also depressingly pointed) from the interview: What do you think of the American environmental movement? I’m very disappointed by the slow pace
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I’m stealing this great “Music Break” idea from Climate Denial Crock of the Week, and actually got this first video from that site (link above). I loved Mr Rogers as a kid, and I think this video shows some of the reasons why — he encouraged imagination, intellectual exploration, curiosity, beauty, friendliness, examining and
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One of our Facebook fans recently dropped us this music video he created. As you can see, it’s focused on the rhino, and efforts to save this precious species. Enjoy! (Except for the very sad pictures of mutilated rhinos.) And share!
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Been feeling like we need to get a little more “save” going in our posts to live up to our “Planetsave” theme. With solar power being one of the very top solutions to numerous environmental and climate crises, and with sister site CleanTechnica being a top site for solar energy news, been thinking of
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It’s been awhile since we wrote about a Click it for Good! campaign. But there’s a new one going that could use all the clicks you can give it. You can go straight to the post to get clicking. It is: Share this link for free wind power – compliments of GreenerGreenGrass. But just to give
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Green thinking is thankfully becoming main stream and is not isolated to a few dedicated eco-warriors. People are finally becoming socially conscious and aware of the fact that we are causing terrible harm to our eco-system in vain. The fashion industry has for years been a culprit for not having an eco-conscience, especially the
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Below is a good video from the folks at LUSH that I recently received on email about the wonders the Enbridge pipeline (think: ‘Keystone XL but only in Canada’) will bring to Canada. Included in the email was this text: “We’re sure you are aware of the Keystone XL debate in the US, but
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So, I just went and randomly picked the winner of the $200 Whole Foods gift certificate (& more) giveaway courtesy Mitsubishi i. The winner is… Dee! Thanks to everyone for participating, and better luck next time for everyone who didn’t win.
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I meant to post this video of a surfing and skateboarding and snowboarding dog a long time ago. Unfortunately, I never got to it. But a friend recently shared the video with me on email, so I’m now finally getting around to it! If you haven’t seen this yet, or even if you have,
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Our good friend Kristen Farquhar has released her latest Environmental Music Film (EMF). It’s on the topic of mountaintop women and mountaintop removal coal mining. Here it is, followed by the description from the YouTube page: “Appalachian women and men unite to stop mountaintop removal. The history of the divine feminine is brought to
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I saw this posted on Climate Central a few days ago and passed on reposting it. But, with Miami’s big win in Boston and the 7th game in the series happening tonight (go, Miami!), I finally thought I’d repost this one. It’s a great analogy and drives home a very important point. Check it out
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NOAA recently released its latest data on US temperatures. The highlights (i.e. lowlights)? The lower 48 states “experienced record warm year-to-date and twelve-month periods,” 2012 was the hottest Spring on record, and May was the second hottest on record. Additionally, we just wrapped up the hottest 12-month period on record. And the Spring’s record high
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The city of Atlanta, where one of our core Important Media employees lives, recently hosted a big bike parade. Atlanta isn’t knowing for its bicycles, but the parade looked pretty sweet and well attended, so it seemed like a good idea to share some photos here to encourage others to host such parades. A big
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Colbert, at it again, makes a good long joke out of climate change skepticism and American stupidity a bit following news of the Earth being at 400 ppm of carbon. Of course, as part of that, he also tackles the GOP’s very real efforts to address global warming and climate change… by attacking the
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A new study has found that more than one-third of US states in the southern Great Plains could run out of groundwater within the next 30 years. Of course, running out of groundwater is never good, but this could be especially bad news for human populations and especially the US since this is a key
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The good folks over at Mitsubishi i are sponsoring a cool giveaway for Planetsave readers. You have a chance to win: a $200 Whole Foods Gift Certificate, some Flip & Tumble Reusable Bags, and a Pure Balance Water Bottle.
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I saw this last year when it was published but I apparently didn’t post on it here on Planetsave (surprisingly). But one of the creators of the film, Richard Heap of Slackjaw Film, recently contacted me about the movie, so I’m sharing it now. The film is called “Consumed – Inside the Belly of the Beast” and
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Someone recently shared a rather interesting infographic with me — it’s titled “Your Cell Phone Is Killing You” and makes some pretty interesting points and includes a lot of interesting facts. Take a look:
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The Climate Reality Project has put up some excellent billboards essentially in response to the horrible Heartland Institute billboards that cost the organization numerous sponsors and the little respect it had. The Climate Reality Project’s billboards will be put up all around the area of the Heartland Institute’s upcoming climate change conference, too. Here’s
In this guest post below, Juanita Constible of The Climate Reality Project shares some pretty stupendous news with us. New national standards for science in K-12 schools include the topic of climate change. Here’s more from Juanita: As a scientist, I know how important it is for our kids to get a top-notch science
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Ari Jokimäki recently published one of his regular roundups of climate science research news. Since you probably haven’t seen many (or any) of these stories in the mainstream media, I’m reposting the roundup here in full. The post is from AGW Observer (via Skeptical Science). Enjoy! by Ari Jokimäki Wouldn’t it be nice to
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You would expect that the Discovery Channel would get the story straight on global warming and climate change, wouldn’t you? Well, it did, overseas, but when bringing its Frozen Planet episode “On Thin Ice” to the US, it decides to edit out mention of human-caused global warming. “The show’s producer told the New York Timesshe didn’t want people saying
This is a pretty astounding stat from this year’s National Bike to Work Day — 75% of traffic on San Francisco’s Market Street was bikes that day, according to a traffic count from San Francisco’s organizers. Here’s a graphic from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: The League of American Bicyclists has a whole host of
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The thing about the Republican party today, Republican leaders at least, is that they say anything they want, even if it’s completely divorced from reality, to try to win over voters. Heck, they even make claims completely divorced from their own policies and votes. The latest (I think.., though, perhaps there’s an even more
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Here’s one more huge repost of the day. This one comes from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology via (Climate Progress). Quick summary? Humans are warming the Earth. Yeah, we knew that, but scientists have just added the 10,000th piece of evidence (figuratively speaking) with a study on Arctic sea ice loss. Here’s more in
Joe Romm has a wonderful series going on the massive (seriously massive) fallout from the Heartland Institute’s recent (and ongoing) stint equating people who understand climate change is happening to mass murderers. His Day 5 post is, in my humble opinion, a must-read, so I’m reposting it in full here (everything that follows is
