Pratt & Whitney will offer an Advantage Performance Upgrade package for the PW4000 94-inch family of aircraft engines that will deliver a 1% fuel burn reduction and improve engine durability. Other benefits of the package include lower greenhouse gas emissions,... Mike Millikin

LA Times. The Southern California Assn. of Governments rejected $11 million in federal stimulus money targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline. Corn-based ethanol causes... Mike Millikin

LA Times. The Southern California Assn. of Governments rejected $11 million in federal stimulus money targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline. Corn-based ethanol causes... Mike Millikin

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd (PBMR Pty) of the Republic of South Africa to study the area of collaboration in the development of the helium-cooled, High... Mike Millikin

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd (PBMR Pty) of the Republic of South Africa to study the area of collaboration in the development of the helium-cooled, High... Mike Millikin

Anteater sniffs for fuel inefficient vehicles at roadblock. Photo from Audi Cheap Trick? Yes, lead singer Robin Zander has re-recorded the band's '80s hit "Dream Police" for Audi's Super Bowl "Green Police" ad tomorrow. The spot opens with an arrest at a supermarket when a customer at checkout responds to the classic Paper or Plastic question. "You've picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy!" More busts ensue. Tomorrow, close to 100 million are expected to watch the Read the full story on TreeHugger

I don't really use Facebook but plenty of my friends do. They might be interested to know that the social network giant growth appears to be powered by coal, the number 1 cause of climate change. In late January, Facebook announced that its new Oregon data center, the data center farms that create the cloud that brings your friends' updates to your computer or smart phone, will be powered by a coal plant in Idaho. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

At about noon today, Australia time, at a location about 180 miles off Cape Darnley in Australian Antarctic Territory the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker collided with the Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru 3. No injuries have been reported. As it to be expec...Read the full story on TreeHugger

There are multiple layers of beauty behind the organization Hands Up Not Handouts (HUNHO) whose mission is to help empower the world's impoverished women. How you ask? By helping them hone in on their knack for handcrafting goods from native materials which in turn, generates income that they, their families and commu...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Astronauts can now use Twitter to send pictures like this, of the Maldives, with their new internet connection in space. Photos via Soichi Noguchi In what is perhaps the final frontier for internet access, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared photos he had taken of Earth from the International Space Station via his Twitter page. In addition to scenic locations and sprawling urban centers, Noguchi's photos provide some of the first looks of Haiti's capital, Port-Au-P...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Sad and blobby blobfish (Greenpeace) Without the redeeming good looks of other endangered species, the rather unfortunate-looking but aptly-named blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) may not figure in anyone's glitzy conservation campaign. Nevertheless, the fact is that this jiggly, jelly-like creature is threatened with extinction, thanks to the overfishing antics of deep sea trawlers scraping the bottom of Australian and New Zealand waters. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Results of GIS statistical analysis for CO2: (a) eGrid subregion emissions factors (kg CO2/kWh), (b) average emissions factor for each district (kg CO2/kWh), (c) coefficient of variation of CO2 emissions factor by district, and (d) difference between eGrid subregion emissions... Mike Millikin

Results of GIS statistical analysis for CO2: (a) eGrid subregion emissions factors (kg CO2/kWh), (b) average emissions factor for each district (kg CO2/kWh), (c) coefficient of variation of CO2 emissions factor by district, and (d) difference between eGrid subregion emissions... Mike Millikin

Image credit: Shannon Quimby Although we know that reuse should come before recycle, it's a sad truth that the reuse industry is often overlooked when people talk about green building. But one woman is out to change all that—literally recycling/reusing an entire dilapidated house as she builds her new home. That's right, she's demolishing an old home, and building a new house, without using a dumpster....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Nissan is entering into an agreement with the City of Houston to advance zero-emission mobility in the city by promoting the development of an electric-vehicle charging network and policies to support widespread adoptions of electric cars. The announcement, made at... Mike Millikin

Nissan is entering into an agreement with the City of Houston to advance zero-emission mobility in the city by promoting the development of an electric-vehicle charging network and policies to support widespread adoptions of electric cars. The announcement, made at... Mike Millikin

photo: J. Novak Matthew has written about the connection between population growth and climate change before. Improving access to family planning services and contraceptives, and ensuring that low income is no barrier to access, is crucial. But recently The Center for Biological Diversity took it a step further with its new Endangered Species Condom Project. All month long the organization will be handing out condoms which feature a series of six or...Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha, Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley, and Christian Lacroix -- to name a few -- for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, "childhood, lost innocence and hope" in light of EJF's newly release report, "Slave Nation" on their campaign to end child labor in Uzbekistan. It's looking las...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via Wolfiewolf Are human-generated noises killing the oceans? This is the question posed by Michael Stocker of the Ocean Conservation Research organization and Volker Barth, creator of Sounds of the Sea, a documentary exploring how military sonar operations are the cause of whale and porpoise strandings and deaths. Not if, but how. In this extraordinary film, researchers reveal the way in which sonar impacts whales' bodies, how it causes internal bleeding, deaths, and strandings, and why ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Asiatic jackal, shown here in Tanzania, Africa, is under consideration for Afghanistan's endangered-species list thanks to student research. Photo by Stig Nygaard via Flickr. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has made it nearly impossible for researchers to conduct on-the-ground fieldwork to find out how species such as the Kashmir cave bat, Asiatic jackal, and Afghan tortoise have fared during the last 30 years of war. So conservation organizatio...Read the full story on TreeHugger