12:27 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, california, conservation, renewable energy, solar power by TreeHugger
Bound to rile people up so keep your knee-jerk in check:
Mercury News reports on another example of the needs of balancing the equally pressing (and interlinked) needs of
expanding renewable energy projecting and conservation. The Santa Clara Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and a group of local residents are suing to block construction of a 399 MW solar power plant on 3,200 acres in the Panoche Valley in California. Those opposed say the project w...
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8:00 am in Business & Politics, california, carbon emissions, carbon footprints, economics, global climate change, united states by TreeHugger
While there was some
uncertainty over the status of cap and trade in California back in May, the largest State in the US is only months away from potentially adopting a hugely comprehensive cap and trade bill. Of course
Tea Partiers will protest the creeping conspiracy to enforce an inhabitable planet on God-fearing patriots, but the fact is that climate science is not going away, and neither are the dire problems that it warns of. Carbon limitatio...
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11:45 am in agriculture, california, farming, food, Food & Health, green wine guide, organic agriculture, photo galleries, recipes, Travel & Nature, wine by TreeHugger
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12:38 pm in agriculture, california, farming, food, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: The Perennial Plate
From
young farmers farming with horses to
backyard slaughter in West Oakland, we've seen plenty of ways that idealistic young people try to break into the farming game. Here the Perennial Plate folks pay a visit to three different farms in the Bay Area, and we hear a little bit about how they got started, what it's like to farm, and why they do it. We also get to see some bad-ass unicycli...
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4:53 pm in Business & Politics, california, consumerism, do it yourself, permaculture, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: Encyclopedia Pictura
From
anarchist bed and breakfasts to
communal woodland dwellings, we've featured a fair few DIY, low impact communities in our time. One of the most common criticisms we hear of the crunchier end of hippy living is that it is "neo-luddite", rejecting the modern world and hankering for a simpler, perhaps fictional, time. But that certa...
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1:59 pm in audio video, california, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
"I have a deep affection for the Redwood forests of Northern California. This is my best attempt to capture the reverence I feel when in the presence of these giants." --Jesse Rosten
Jesse, who shot and edited the video, and Kallie Markle, who wrote the voiceover's text and read it, created this very nice short film, a sort of audio-visual poem to pay homage to the
Redwood Forests of Northern California. It looks great and if you're stressed, it provides a nice 'zen moment'. Via
Vimeo.
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