Déjà Vu All Over Again: Offshore Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico [Update]

Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP’s massive oil spill.

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New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses

Photo: New Flyer What’s the Difference Between CNG and Diesel? The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the “MTA”) has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas (”CNG”) heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buses.

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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey

photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…

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To Win, the Green Movement Needs to Understand Leverage, not Just Footprints

Image credit: OedipuSphinx (Creative Commons) A few years ago I got into a heated debate about Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth with a green-minded friend of mine. My hippy friend couldn’t stand the movie—not because of anything it said, but because of the ‘hypocrisy’ of flying around the world to preach about climate change

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Tequila Industry to Tackle Its Huge Waste Problem?

Image credit: GreenHouse International & Mickou (Creative Commons) No sooner do we hear that the Scots have developed a biofuel from whisky distillery byproducts , that the tequila industry announces it wants in on the waste-to-energy act too. This is not without good reason— the growth of the tequila indus..

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Prettiest Travelling Bike Ever. But At What Price?

images from Wallpaper* Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things.

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Who Has Open Fires When It’s 100 Degrees Outside? Olive Garden

Image credit: Olive Garden & Peter Baker (Creative Commons) When I wrote about drying clothes indoors , I was surprised to hear that some folks had considered opening the windows and cranking up the heat on the thermostat as a “green” method of clothes drying – even when you wouldn’t otherwise need to heat your house. But they’re not the only ones doing weird things out of season—tipster Ty tells us that his local…

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Could Going Green Mean Trashing Our Landscape?

Image credit: Centre for Alternative Technology Environmentalists may spend a lot of time battling against the fossil fuel lobby , but the awkward truth is that there is plenty of fighting between “green” groups too—perhaps most notably when it comes to what constitutes ’sustainability’, and how do we manage the sometimes competing demands of clean energy and conservation. From

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FuelCell Energy’s power plant can extract energy from chicken droppings

Eco Factor: Fuel-cell power plant converts methane gas into electricity.

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Volkswagen’s ERL looks forward to 500-mile EVs by 2020

Eco Factor: 18650-type lithium-ion cells could lead to EVs with a range of more than 500 miles.

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