Muzatch Solar Laptop Charger is Light Weight Option for Off-Grid Charging

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There's a new solar laptop charger to add to the list of potential products for off grid charging. This one is super light weight, and foldable - always great features for traveling. It is capable of charging everything from a cell phone to a laptop, but does it line up well against some of the other hefty chargers on the market? It certainly seems to have a few 'pros' in its favor. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Why High Speed Rail Actually Needs to be, Well, High Speed

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When Obama announced plans to build high speed rail corridors in the US, it was some of the most exciting news I'd heard from his then-nascent administration. Yes, it was universally recognized that the $8 billion allotted in the stimulus bill (combined with an additional billion a year for the next five years in the budget) was hardly enough to build a rail corridor--much less complete the ambitious plans for rail around the country. Yet slowly but surely, the plans a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

EPA Won't Regulate Greenhouse Gases Until Next Year

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Just now, the EPA has formally announced that it will delay regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's biggest polluters until next year. However, in issuing the announcement, the agency affirms that it will indeed commence regulation in 2011. The delay is intended to give businesses more time to prepare their carbon reduction strategies, and ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

RayNLA lays down the hammer to the six percenter who said realtors on commission are "superheroes"

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Ka-plam! Ka-booshie!

Someone just got PWND!


'Now look were we are! Now we have you along with Hank Paulson calling yourselves heroes? I got an idea for you. Call one of your clients that you sold a house to in July of 2006 and ask him if he thinks you are his hero!!!'

-RayNLA, laying down the hammer of truthiness, February 2010

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Science Lab On Wheels! BioBus Brings Science Class to Schools With Insufficient Resources

Image: Cell Motion BioBus

Ben Dubin-Thaler received his Ph.D. in biology from Columbia University in 2007, and instead of getting a job, he bought a 1974 San Francisco transit bus. His dream was to build a vehicle that could bring hands-on science education to communities lacking such opportunities. The BioBus is now doing just that, in New York and around the country....Read the full story on TreeHugger

US Proposal for Ban on e-Waste Exports Won't Solve - and Could Worsen - the Problem

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While many watchdog groups call for strict regulations or bans on the export of e-waste, authors of an article from the journal Environmental Science and Technology state that this could just make the whole situation worse. 'Trade bans will become increasing...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Following Health Care Victory, 22 Dem Senators Call for Clean Energy Reform

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Yesterday I noted that though it would likely to be a pretty tough slog, there are still a number of factors working in favor of the bipartisan effort to bring about clean energy reform. Key among those factors was momentum--Democrats, after all, scored a major victory with the passage of health care reform. Fresh on the heels of the b...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Is Virgin Galactic's Claim To Be Green Reasonable? Actually, Sort Of

Flight photos Mark Greenberg via boingboing

It must have been a beautiful sight, the maiden flight of the Enterprise. Burt Rutan says that it 'signifies the start of what we believe will be an extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test program.' The space travel we dreamt of as kids is finally getting close. Virgin also calls it green, saying that inRead the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Dire Pollution Predictions from First Earth Day Haven't Come True

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In one of the more bizarre blog posts I've read in recent memory, the American Enterprise Institute's Mark J. Perry notes that some of the most dire predictions about the threat of air pollution and environmental degradation that surrounded the first Earth Day never came true. And therefore, there's no reason to get worked up about pollution regulation (or other environmental woes) now. But Perry appears to have entirely forgotten about why those predictions didn't come true--he says it's because the US got richer. Is that it? That's the only reason that predictions in the 1970s tha...Read the full story on TreeHugger