http://agreenliving.org Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:16:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering solar industry , the ... http://agreenliving.org/finding-the-key-to-subsidizing-solar-power/ Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition , re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water. Rather than letting cities spread out as population increases, a the design calls for a new city to be created out on ... http://agreenliving.org/tower-city-is-an-ecotopia-stacked-up-on-stilts/ photo via Climate Changer A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Who replaces him figures to be a signal of where the UN is going on climate change. Read more:  Who Will Lead The U.N. ... http://agreenliving.org/who-will-lead-the-u-n-on-climate-change/ Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor Architects recently shared their appreciation of upcycling with youngsters at the Brookwood School Sustainability Fair by teaching them how to turn trash into treasure. The firm taught children at the elementary school how to save simple wooden pallets from the incinerator and craft their ... http://agreenliving.org/reader-tip-birdhouses-upcycled-from-discarded-shipping-pallets/ This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa Excerpt from: Pre-Dinosaur Era ... http://agreenliving.org/pre-dinosaur-era-plant-specimens-brazenly-stolen/ Most Americans would have a fit if their credit card or cell phone company sent a dollar amount at the end of the month with no itemized description to match. But we tolerate it from our utility companies with little complaint. If we’re going to change our energy habits, ... http://agreenliving.org/opower-encourages-efficiency-with-energy-report-cards/ Image credit: Grist Imagine a hot summer day in a town surrounded by glistening pools of water. Now imagine that no one is swimming—that they can't because the water has been contaminated with a potentially dangerous, yet common, pollutant. For many, this terrible thought is a reality and the ... http://agreenliving.org/nitrogens-impact-on-public-health/ Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon.... Read the rest here:  A Good Climate ... http://agreenliving.org/a-good-climate-bill-will-be-strong-not-easy/ Last week, we brought you news about Chef Daniel Angerer’s special cheese made from his wife’s breast milk , and boy did that open a can of worms ! While we expected knee-jerk ‘ EEEWWW ‘ reactions from people, we didn’t really imagine the extent to which people would ... http://agreenliving.org/chef-daniel-angerer-defends-cheese-made-from-wife%e2%80%99s-breast-milk/ The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be "warranted but precluded" by the U.S. Originally posted here:  Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List http://agreenliving.org/life-on-the-endangered-species-waiting-list/