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1. New Orleans Musician Fears Hurricane Gustav Aiming for Gulf Wetlands Destroyed By Katrina
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2. Big Oil and Other Interest Groups Join McCain VP Palin's Lawsuit to Reverse Polar Bear Listing
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3. Solar Decthalon House Adopted by Texas Astronomical Observatory
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4. Biking Across America with WE ADD UP - Day 26: Storms
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5. Oslo Beefs Up Electric Car Charging Stations, But Buyers Experience A Backlog
New Orleans Musician Fears Hurricane Gustav Aiming for Gulf Wetlands...
2008-08-31 23:15
news
Interview with New Orleans Musician Amanda Shaw With Hurricane Gustav threatening the Gulf Coast, TreeHugger's meeting with Cajun-pop prodigy Amanda Shaw takes on a certain urgency. A shadow of concern for her family, friends and home hangs over the interview about her wetlands activism, her part in the IMAX film Hurricane on the Bayou, and her memories of Katrina. Amanda Shaw and her band, the Cute Boys, are in Minnesota to play the 17th annual Grand Portage Bayou Boogie festival and the potentially hurrica... Big Oil and Other Interest Groups Join McCain VP Palin's Lawsuit to...
2008-08-31 18:35
Business & Politics
Image from mape_s After getting past the initial shock of hearing about John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, I quickly honed in on two particularly salient aspects of her environmental views: her belief that climate change is not man-made and her opposition to the polar bear's listing as a threatened species. Now while I may not yet know much about Palin's overall record in offic... Solar Decthalon House Adopted by Texas Astronomical Observatory
2008-08-31 18:10
Design & Architecture
While astronomers at the Macdonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX are studying the solar system, the BLOOMhouse has one of its own. Nestled high up on a mountaintop outside of Fort Davis, TX is where the solar powered BLOOMhouse now resides. The BLOOMhouse was one of the entries in the biennial Solar Decathlon that was held in Washington D.C. last year to demonstrate the power of the sun to our governing bodies and public. The competition challenge... Biking Across America with WE ADD UP - Day 26: Storms
2008-08-31 15:37
Travel & Nature
This post is one in a series of video blogs about biking across America with WE ADD UP to raise awareness about how to stop global warming. Check out more posts in this series here. Truth be known, by the time we had biked to Wyoming, there were several times along the way where Carson was on the verge of pressing the bike trip's red abort bu... 
Oslo Beefs Up Electric Car Charging Stations, But Buyers Experience A...
2008-08-31 14:49
news
Oslo's city government has promised to install 400 electric car charging/parking places over the next four years. Meanwhile Norway's electric car manufacturer THINK is turning out its THINK city cars at the rate of just three per day, which has created a local waiting list 700 customers long. U.S.$10 gallon gas makes 'el-bil' look good High prices for jet fuel may have made rap star Diddy ground his private jet for the moment, but Europeans and especially Norwegians are finding it 
