April 14th, 2009

Welcome!

  • Apr. 14th, 2009 at 11:14 AM
This community is for discussing environmental news and issues.

Topics include:

* conservation
* endangered species
* climate change
* pollution
* sustainability
* green living

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Up to 2,000 New Orangutans Found in Borneo

  • Apr. 14th, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I thought the inaugural post of this community should be something happy, so here's some good news for one of our most endangered relatives: researchers in Borneo have found 219 orangutan nests, which may house up to 2000 previously unknown wild orangutans! With only 50,000 known orangutans in the wild, that's an increase of up to 5%.

In even better news, the Indonesian government is considering protecting the area of the discovery in order to ensure it remains undeveloped.

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America's First Solar City

  • Apr. 14th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I thought this was pretty cool: a former NFL linebacker is building the first solar city in Florida.

The housing collapse be damned, Kitson & Partners announces it will build a planned city near Fort Meyers with 19,500 homes, offices, retail shops, and light industry. Its electricity will come from the world’s largest solar voltaic power plant, a $300 million, 75-megawatt plant to be built on-site by Florida Power & Light. That’s nearly twice as large as the current largest plant in Germany, says Time magazine.

The planned city—Babcock Ranch—will include a smart grid to let residents monitor and adjust their energy consumptions. More than half of its 17,000 acres will be permanently protected as greenways and open space, according to the Miami Herald.


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