The Chevy Volt Goes to China (In 2011)

Photo: GM Hopefully It’ll Have More Commercial Success than BYD EVs China will be one of the initial markets to get the Chevy Volt PHEV, and today GM is announcing that the first drivable Volt has landed in the Middle Kingdom. “GM has made a long-term commitment to bringing our industry-leading technology to China,” said Kevin Wale, President and Managing Director of the GM China Group. GM delivered two Chevrolet Volts to the Shanghai Expo for use as VIP transportation

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IPCC Did Good Work But Needs Fundamental Reforms, Review Concludes

image: IPCC Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science , an independent review of the way the organization operates says “fundamental reforms” are needed– among those are shorter terms for the organization’s chair and establishing an executive director to oversee operations and act as spokesperson. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Red Nest By Paul Coudamay Hides The Bed With A Sliding Bookcase

Photos by Benjamin Boccas via Paul Coudamay TreeHugger has shown many ways to hide the bed; most are designed to gain more space.

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Is the Electrification of Transportation a Good Thing? (Part 2)

Electric Cars are Coming – Is it a Good Thing? In part 1 , we looked at why it’s important to get our cars off oil and what the first part of that transition might look like

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Xmas is Early for Climate Scientists, New CESM Modeling Software is Out!

Image: UCAR One of the Primary Models Used by the IPCC As Freeman Dyson said, “The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.” The telescope, the microscope, X-rays and MRIs, etc. Climate modeling software is such a tool, allowing us to make probabilistic estimates about what is likely to happen to our planet’s if we do X or Y or Z. And while we can never be 100% sure about the future, our tools are getting more sophisticated (models take more things into account, faster computers allow more simulations to be run, better instruments and satellites allow better inf…

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Today on Planet 100: Honeybee Collapse (Video)

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CREE to Supply 10.5W LED Downlights to Home Depot

Photo: Cree Let There Be Light At TreeHugger, we’ve been writing about ways to make lighting more energy efficient for years. Not because it’s the most important things to do to reduce your footprint (more important things including: signing up for Green Power with your utility company, buying as little stuff as possible and making it last, and using your feet, your bike , or

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Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones

Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual chickens, and rescue real ones too .

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There’s A Lot Less Coal Out There Than We Think – But That’s Not Civilization’s End

photo: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo via flickr TreeHugger has covered the uncomfortable and largely under-publicized topic of peak coal on a number of occasions, but David Roberts over at Grist just brought it up again–and it’s a topic certainly worth revisiting as the future implications are great.

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Tesla Co-Founder: Electric Cars with 500+ Mile Range by 2020

Martin Eberhard with a Tesla electric Roadster. Photo: Flickr , CC EV Forecast: Sunny, But Uncertain Martin Eberhard, one of the original co-founders of Tesla Motors in 2003 and now director at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), is predicting that that within the next 10 years, electric cars will have a range of 500 miles and more. It’s a bold prediction considering that the Tesla Roadster has a range of 244 miles (at a very high cost, and for a lightweight 2-seater) and that most other e..

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