UK Company Pulls Out of Controversial Kenya Biofuel Project

Wikimedia / CC BY 1.0 Local Kenyans and environmentalists are celebrating British firm G4 Industries Limited’s recent pullout from a 28,000-hectare biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife, the Tana River Delta. The company said it is pulling out because of increasing evidence of environmental issues…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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5 Hearty Fall Pasta Recipes (and the Tools You Need to Make Them)

Photo: jules:stonesoup /Creative Commons From-scratch pasta is a little like fresh, homemade bread: If you take the time to make it, your guests won’t even pay attention to the rest of the meal. But fresh pasta is also a lot less time-consuming than it sounds — especially when you have the right tools. Try one of these hearty fall pastas — served with fresh herbs or butternut squash, walnut pesto or pumpkin-based dough — made with your own two hands (and, in some cases, a pasta machine attachment) and you’ll have a flavorful dish that makes for … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UK Offshore Wind Power Industry May Struggle To Keep Up, As Nation Adds 2.5 GW Per Year By 2016

Danny Nicholson / CC BY-ND 2.0 It’s a tough but somewhat enviable spot to be in: Research from RenewableUK shows that growth in offshore wind power in the UK is such that Britain’s supply chain will have a hard time keeping up by 2013 and 2014…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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500 MW Solar Power Plant Will Be Southwest Africa’s Largest

Santiago Medem / CC BY-SA 2.0 A massive new solar power plant is in the works for Namibia , Renewable Energy World reports. The proposed project, to be built near the capital Windhoek by SSI Energy Solutions, currently has a power purchase agreement with the Namibian governme… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Pumpkin with Chilies and Thai Basil

Photo: kelly Rossiter/ CC BY 2.0 When I was a kid we never had pumpkin any way except in pies and pumpkin bread . The only fresh pumpkin we ever had was for carving at Halloween. Now I roast them, use them in soups and

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The Alternative To Keystone XL Pipeline: Ship The Oil By Rail

Altex Energy /Promo image Like any good TreeHugger I am against the Keystone XL pipeline, really I am; but as I wrote in Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Protest About Tar Sands or Politics? , the problem isn’t on the supply side, it is the demand. As Mat noted in Limited Export Capacity Behind Big Push For Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline , without the pipe there are not a lot of places for the oi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Conservation Photography Is A Political Act

Mike Baird / CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understand the resonant beauty or shocking destruction and therefore move to act on the planet’s behalf. But, what really is conservation photography as separate from nature photography, wildlife photography or oth… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Selling Home Solar Like a Cell Phone Plan (Video)

pink_dispatcher / CC BY-SA 2.0 The more people who get energy from clean sources like solar and wind, the better. That’s an unambiguous truism at this point. Yet two primary factors prevent more folks from plugging into renewable power: Cost and access. Most people have neither a) the option to plug into a big, centralized wind farm or solar array, nor b) the financial resources to pay the upfront costs for distributed projects like rooftop solar. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Guerrilla Artist Catapults LEDs into the Air to Bring Stars Back to London

Oscar Lhermitte /via If you were in London in late June, you may have noticed more stars than usual, and constellations you’ve never seen before. You weren’t going crazy, but light pollution hadn’t dropped off, either. The “stars” were the work of French artist Oscar Lhermitte , who with his team catapulted nylon lines studded with LED lights between tree tops; creating series of twelve new constellations…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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You WIll Probably Live to See ‘Dangerous’ Levels of Climate Change

Stephen Yeargin, via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 As far as Americans are concerned, climate change is a perpetually distant and ambiguous threat. Some glaciers thousands of miles away might melt, some poor people might suffer through droughts in Africa, some polar bears might drown. Et cetera. This ‘distance effect’ is, partly, what drives global warming to the bottom of our priority lists time and again. It’s an amorphous problem, ever-looming. That’s what it seems like, anyway. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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