Sustainablogity

links for 2010-12-13

• Using Waste, Swedish City Shrinks Its Fossil Fuel Use – NYTimes.com
  "it generates energy from a motley assortment of ingredients like potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines."
  (tags: renewableenergy cleanenergy biogas)
• Climate Talks in Cancún End With Modest Deal on Emissions – NYTimes.com
  "The agreement sets up a new fund to help poor countries adapt to climate changes, creates new mechanisms for transfer of clean energy technology, provides compensation for the preservation of tropical forests and strengthens the emissions reductions pledges that came out of the last United Nations climate change meeting in Copenhagen last year."
  (tags: climate change cancun)

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links for 2010-12-11

• Texas, feds in agreement on new carbon-capture rules | The American Independent
  (tags: carbon capture texas air pollution global warming)
• A Greener Formula? – Newsdesk: Austin News, Politics, Opinion Blog – AustinChronicle.com
  Austin is bracing to get an Formula 1 racing track. This article details interests in making the cars' engines run cleaner on biofuels and hybrid technology.
  (tags: austin texas F1 car racing green engines clean technology)

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links for 2010-12-10

• Fukuoka’s Natural Farming – A DBL & Microbial Earth Special Presentation : Design~Build~Live
  This seminar sounds interesting.
  (tags: natural farming nasanobu fukuoka)
• Energy Audits: What Homeowners Need to Know
  (tags: home energy audit efficiency insulation leakage saving money)
• Texas Digest: EPA says driller contaminated North Texas aquifer; court halts death penalty hearing
  (tags: clean water natural gas drilling contamination pollution texas parker county epa)
• E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions – NYTimes.com
  "President Obama ran for office promising tougher standards, and the new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks."
  (tags: air pollution emissions epa obama government politics)
• Austin City Council OK's incentives for SunPower
  (tags: solar power renewable energy sunpower jobs economy)

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links for 2010-12-08

• Chicken Breeds With Pictures: New Pickin Chicken App – Happy Homesteader
  Aaron and I got six chickens for our backyard about a month ago. We're enjoying their antics! Can't wait for those eggs.
  (tags: backyard chickens urban farm eggs local food)
• EPA: 2 Parker County homes at risk of explosion | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News
  "The EPA issued an imminent and substantial endangerment order under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act after tests confirmed methane, benzene and other constituents of natural gas in private drinking-water wells that serve two homes in southern Parker County."
  (tags: natural gas exploration fracking hydraulic fracturing)

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links for 2010-12-07

• Texas' State Climatologist Discusses Coming Changes — Environmental Problems and Policies | The Texas Tribune
  Climatologist discusses "he potential for rising temperatures in Texas, why international science on climate change is fundamentally sound despite challenges from state officials, and how long the drought in Central Texas is likely to continue."
  (tags: texas climate global warming temperatures weather)
• Two new clean energy incubators on the way | Starting Up
  (tags: renewable clean energy power)

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links for 2010-12-06

• 10 Gorgeous Green Alternatives to Holiday Wrapping Paper : TreeHugger
  (tags: christmas gifts wrapping paper)
• Smartphones And Computers: "Bloodstains At Our Fingertips" : TreeHugger
  (tags: mining africa conflict)
• "Peak Fertilizer" To Make Manure A Valuable Commodity : TreeHugger
  "Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again."
  (tags: farming fertilizer manure)
• Stunning new tool maps out factory farms near you | Grist
  "Everyone interested in where the meat, dairy, and eggs sold by their supermarkets come from should play around with it."
  (tags: livestock factory farm industrial food system)
• How will cities be shaped by transit in the future? | Grist
  "At Forum for the Future, we’ve just constructed four scenarios for the future of urban mobility in megacities (i.e. those over 10 million), speculating about how these and other forces, including declining fossil-fuel availability and patterns of city governance, might play out in the next 30 years."
  (tags: transportation mass transit fossil fuels climate change future cities)
• The real nitty-gritty on small farms and the food-safety bill | Food Fight | Grist
  (tags: food, gardening local backyard farm food safety bill s.510)
• FoodTubes wants to take food distribution back to the future | Grist
  "FoodTubes wants to move our fossil-fuel based transport system underground and, well, into tubes."
  (tags: food distribution transportation foodtubes)
• A Spin in the Chevy Volt – NYTimes.com
  This description of driving for a day in a Chevy Volt makes my mouth water. I want an electric car!
  (tags: electric car chevy volt alternative energy transportation)
• The Less Biodiversity, the More Disease – NYTimes.com
  (tags: nature wildlife biodiversity disease monocultures)

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