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New Orleans Musician Fears Hurricane Gustav Aiming for Gulf Wetlands Destroyed By Katrina

	  
	  
	  
	  
      

   
      

     
      
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	        
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Amanda Shaw photoInterview 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 Guys, are in Minnesota to play the 17th annual Grand Portage Bayou Boogie festival and the potentially hurrica…





 





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New Orleans Musician Fears Hurricane Gustav Aiming for Gulf Wetlands Destroyed By Katrina home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Battery manufacturer Ener1 just announced that they’re foreseeing an 50% drop in the price of lithium ion batteries as production increases. Where exactly this price drop will be coming from, we’re not sure.


A couple of statements indicate that a lot of it will come simply from scaling up manufacturing, and that it won’t happen until their dealing in hundreds of thousands of units. But they’re also indicating that demand isn’t likely to do anything but increase exponentially. Of course, that’s what they hope, and it’s my personal opinion as well. But it’s certainly not guaranteed.


Ener1 has also stated that they are expecting two new development deals this year. They already provide the lithium ion batteries for Think’s City Car in Europe. But the CEO is promising that these deals will be with much larger car companies. And though GM and Toyota already have their Li-ion suppliers lined up (Toyota will probably be building it’s own,) there are an awful lot of car companies that still aren’t sure how they’re going to break into the lithium ion powered future.


Lastly, according to their calculations, this 50% reduction in li-ion battery cost will translate to a significant reduction in the cost of hybrid vehicles. They’re expecting, in fact, that the time it takes for hybrids to pay for themselves will drop from 7 to around 2 years. 


It’s pretty likely that every new car on the road will have a lithium ion battery pack in it in a mere ten years. So I expect that their vision for increased demand isn’t unwarranted. Whether there are some unseen bumps in the road, however, is an entirely different matter. But if these prices do drop the way Ener1 says they will, then the world is going to be a cleaner and more electrified place pretty soon.


Via The Guardian




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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…





 





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Big Oil and Other Interest Groups Join McCain VP Palin’s Lawsuit to Reverse Polar Bear Listing home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								

To place items on a table: that’s one way to go about it. However as of late, tables have been cropping up with the added-or subtracted, rather-element of a hole in the table’s surface. A hole through which a plant can grow, or on which you can put a tray of moss: the trend perhaps originates with the increased fervor for bringing outdoors inside as it takes the houseplant one step further, to houseplant as furniture. Most recently, the New York-based design firm of Hellman-Chang has given birth to a celebrated modern iteration of the concept: the Tao Table.

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BLOOMhouse solar powered building texas photoWhile 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…





 





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Solar Decathlon House Adopted by Texas Astronomical Observatory home design 
  

					 		 
	  


			
 

	
 

	
	

	
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