Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution John Metcalfe, grist.org Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow … Continue reading Places with the most lethal air quality
Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a … Continue reading Vikings have more fun: UN reports Danes are happiest people
What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? fastcoexist.com We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy. Spare a thought for people named Ivan,… http://flip.it/SKXvC Related articles What If We … Continue reading What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
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Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water Sarah Miller, grist.org Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water. … Continue reading Americans don’t like the taste of water
For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system David Roberts, grist.org Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort … Continue reading For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system
Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next … Continue reading Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time
In the Hands of God: Thoughts on Rural Research core77.com By Jan ChipchaseThis article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homogeneous.Over the last decade I’ve seen an… RT @core77: GoogleMaps, Dirt Roads + Drinking Water. @JanChip shares thoughts on logistics … Continue reading Thoughts on rural research
The North Face Launches “Clothes the Loop” Garment-Recycling Program ecouterre.com RECOMMENDED FOR YOU: Recycle Your Marks & Spencer Clothing at Oxfam, Get £5 Off Purchase The North Face Launches “Clothes the Loop” Garment-Recycling Program by Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/21/13 The North F … RT @inhabitat: The North Face wants to reward you for recycling your … Continue reading North Face launches garment recycling program
10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home … Continue reading 10 year old boy starts recycling business
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it By Philip Bump, grist.org You’d think that by now John Mackey would have learned to shut up. The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my saying so, of course, since — in classic hyper-entitled, … Continue reading Whole Foods CEO John Mackey perceptions about climate
East Village’s Molecule Cafe Serves Nothing But Filtered NYC Tap Water! inhabitat.com Glass of water photo via Shutterstock A new watering hole called the Molecule Cafe has opened up in New York’s East Village, and it serves only one thing – NYC tap water. Considering that the cafe gets the water for free, filters it … Continue reading East Village Molecule Cafe
The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money. It’s only a… … Continue reading The Government Open-Data Program
A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few … Continue reading A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water. Depending on whether you’ve just … Continue reading A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked
CO2 Is Why You’re Fat BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com As the atmosphere fills with more carbon dioxide, it might mean that breathing creates a chemical reaction that makes you want to eat more. And more. And even more. There is no single factor that has caused widespread obesity in the… CO2 Is Why You’re Fat … Continue reading CO2 Is Why You’re Fat
Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Continuing Australia’s trend of being majorly unpleasant this week, it got so hot in the Outback town of Oodnadatta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good … Continue reading Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?
This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length smithsonianmag.com If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s really long nose hairs. Which is perhaps why Clean Air Asia has decided to start visualizing each person’s air pollution exposure as super-long, disgusting nose hairs. The group says: The more… This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution … Continue reading Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length
CitiSense is a Portable Air Pollution Monitoring Device that Sends Data to Your Smart Phone | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling … Continue reading Citiesense iPhone air quality monitoring
The 10 Countries Where Climate Change and Pollution Is Killing the Population Timon Singh, inhabitat.com When you hear about the effects on climate change on global populations, some of the places that might immediately spring to mind might include the low-lying island of Tuvalu or Haiti, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of ever-more powerful… … Continue reading Countries where climate change kills
This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city… RT @core77: Awesome … Continue reading Visualizing cities at night with no lights
discovermagazine.com Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a trage… http://flip.it/R8QPz How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation Related articles Climate … Continue reading How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation
Green Blog: What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation By RACHEL NUWER, nytimes.com What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet. What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change … Continue reading Why sustainability is not appealing and what else to call it
Phil Plait, slate.com I was thinking of writing a lengthy post about climate change denial being completely unscientific nonsense, but then geochemist and National Science Board member James Lawrence Powell wrote a post that is basically a slam-dunk of debunking. His… http://flip.it/ag9vG Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air Related articles Two Documentaries on … Continue reading Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air
Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that political conservatives don’t care about things like climate change, recycling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in … Continue reading How to describe environmental science to conservatives
Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wowwowwow. A group of filmmakers, making a movie called, aptly, Chasing Ice, have captured what they claim to be the largest iceberg calving ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome: … Continue reading Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction
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