When You're Done Reading This Book, It Grows Into A Tree
• http://www.trueactivist.comThis publishing company has come up with a fantastic project that is connecting literacy with sustainability in a particularly tangible way.
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Environment
Floating Solar Panels: A Viable Solution?
• alternative-energy-news.infoSince 2011, French Company Ciel & Terre has been developing large-scale floating solar solutions.
US water bandits tap into drought
• http://www.thesundaytimes.co, John HarlowONCE men came to California to rob banks or steal gold. Four years into the state's historic drought, organised criminals now specialise in water theft.
Dutch Company Powers Streetlights With Living Plants?
• popularliberty.comIn Hembrug, Netherlands, a crowd stood in a park and looked up into the evening sky, waiting for lights to shine.
UN climate conference warned that 2 degrees global warming is not 'safe'
• abc.net.auA report presented to a UN climate conference in Germany warns that global warming limit of 2 degrees Celsius is not 'safe' and proposes a new target of 1.5 degrees.
Tesla Co-Founder Starts Building Sustainable Garbage Trucks
• True ActivistTesla co-founder Ian Wright, who broke with the company in 2005, has continued to work on developing sustainable vehicles, and is working on an exciting new project that hopes to make garbage trucks and other large vehicles environmentally friendly.
Dutch scientists have successfully tested a smog-eating concrete that can
• http://www.trueactivist.comcut certain kinds of air pollution by as much as 45%. Could the answer to pollution be right underneath our feet? While it may not be that simple, a recently designed technology that 'eats' up smog definitely looks promising!
How to Thrive in The Age of Megadrought
• http://motherboard.vice.comFor millions, the future is running dry. As our atmosphere's carbon count ticks up and the planet continues to warm, those who live in arid-leaning areas are poised to see not just more frequent droughts, but decades-spanning megadroughts.
Deepwater Horizon: jury selection begins for BP exec charged in oil spill
• theguardian.comDavid Rainey accused of obstructing congressional investigation as prosecutors say he misled officials about quantity of oil entering Gulf of Mexico
ECOCAPSULE
• ecocapsule.skDwelling with the spirit of freedom
Bill Nye, The 'Everything Is Climate Change' Guy, Blames Texas Floods On Climate Change
• http://www.prisonplanet.comFresh off butchering the real meaning of the US Constitution to suggest that manmade global warming skeptics are unpatriotic, Bill Nye the so called science guy has angered many by suggesting that the heavy flooding in Texas is due to climate
"It sounded like a Vulcan bomber."
• http://www.trueactivist.comIt is estimated that one dairy cow can produce up to 150 pounds of manure per day… So why not recycle that digested grass and put it to good use?
Satellites catch the birth of two volcanic islands
• http://phys.org/newsThe birth of a volcanic island is a potent and beautiful reminder of our dynamic planet's ability to make new land. Given the destruction we've seen following natural events like earthquakes and tsunamis in the past few years, stunning images of two
New kind of wood chip: Biodegradable computer chips made from wood
• http://www.sciencedaily.comPortable electronics -- typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials -- are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers' pursuit of the next best electronic gadget.
Audi claims first synthetic gasoline made from plants
• gizmag.comJust weeks after producing its first batch of synthetic diesel fuel made from carbon dioxide and water, Audi has laid claim to another synthetic, clean-burning and petroleum-free fuel called "e-benzin." The fuel was created by Audi's project partner
Guest Post: Unprecedented 'Mass Die Offs' As Pacific Ocean "Turning Into a Desert"
• zerohedge.comIt was the dying cry of Charlton Heston in the creepy 1973 film Soylent Green… and it could resemble our desperate near future.
Guest Post: Unprecedented 'Mass Die Offs' As Pacific Ocean "Turning Into a Desert"
• zerohedge.comIt was the dying cry of Charlton Heston in the creepy 1973 film Soylent Green… and it could resemble our desperate near future.
California crews struggle to contain nine-mile oil spill with booms
• http://www.theguardian.comA fleet of 18 vessels is battling to contain an oil slick stretching nine miles along the California coast as rescuers on land try to save seals, birds and other wildlife trapped in the black goo.
'Nightmare' California oil spill damages rare coastal ecosystem
• http://www.theguardian.comActivists say accident is soiling Gaviota coast, a Mediterranean-climate region of which there are only five in the world, and will be closed off for weeks or months
5 Ways Obama Says Climate Change Poses A 'Severe Threat' To National Security
• PopSciAround Norfolk, high tides and storms increasingly flood parts of our Navy base and an airbase. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is damaging military facilities. Out West, deeper droughts and longer wildfires could threaten training areas our troops dep
Peabody Energy exploited Ebola crisis for corporate gain, say health experts
• The GuardianPublic health experts outraged after world's largest privately-held coal company promotes its product in the fight against Ebola in Africa as part of a PR campaign to rebrand the fossil fuel as a solution to global poverty
The rise and rise of the fossil fuel divestment movement
• http://www.theguardian.comAs Oxford University rules out investing in coal and tar sands, more than 220 institutions have now committed to divesting since the climate campaign launched in 2012
Heat from global warming captured by the Pacific Ocean being transferred to Indian Ocean
• http://phys.org/news(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working in the U.S. has found what they believe to be the answer to the question of what happened to the heat uptake in the Pacific Ocean due to global warming.
Chilean Fog Nets Pull Beer From Desert Air
• popsci.comWho needs water when you have beer?
Disappearing Lake Powell underlines drought crisis facing Colorado river
• http://www.theguardian.comAs water levels plummet to 45% in America's second-largest reservoir, new islands appear and fears grow for a waterway that serves 40 million people
Billionaire Oil CEO Demands Scientists Terminated After Oklahoma Quake Study
• zerohedge.comThe billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers fired.
The Greatest Water Crisis In The History Of The United States
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comWhat are we going to do once all the water is gone?
In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comThe UN plans to launch a brand new plan for managing the entire globe at the Sustainable Development Summit that it will be hosting from September 25th to September 27th.
Living in Space Will Mean Recycling Everything
• MotherboardNASA is trying to get us to increasingly distant areas of space with increasingly intriguing technologies (like flinging spacecraft around using space tethers). But once we're there--or even while we're on the way--we need to be able to live.
The Brutal Reality of Life in China's Most Polluted Cities
• Wired.comIt's one thing to read about air pollution contributing to more than one million deaths in China, or about how one-third of its rural residents lack access to clean water.
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