100 MPG Hybrid Hummer

At the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress (SAE) in Detroit Utah-based Raser Technologies just unveiled its hybrid version of the Hummer H3 which they claim gets 100 miles to the gallon. The range-extended eco vehicle has an all-electric range of 40 miles with a hybrid 200 kW electric motor / 100 kW gasoline-powered engine.

With a 90 mph top speed, off-road capability and a lithium ion-battery that’s rechargeable in as little as three hours, the SUV maintains its acceleration, towing and off-road capacities. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime Hummer enthusiast, praised the vehicle during a visit to the exhibition.

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DEforestation - Sting, Google, trees

Rising rates of deforestation around the world have a double environmental whammy: There’s the direct impact on habitat loss, soil erosion and ecosystem degradation, then there’s the loss of large areas of carbon sinks leading to decreased storage of greenhouse gasses and accelerating climate change. This Google Earth layer is one of the most graphic representations of the scale of this problem that you are likely to come across. Yes, that huge green stack in the upper right of the image is China.

– see a short clip of Sting and his statements with a screen of one rotation in google earth showing the deforestation impact in a relative stack graph overlay … See Video Read more

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POSTCARD from the Planet

CTNgreen got a huge amount of very good content for the video mashup, so we are making the movie in segments. One segment will be based on the very cool appeal from our friend John Paul DeJoria, to let “a Big Smile capture it all” .

That single concept is cool. Simple. Smile. Do that for sure. and while you are smiling, take a photo … use your cellphone or anything that works, and send it to mashup@ctngreen.com and you will be in the Postcards For Earthday Video segment - its free, we make your card and send it back to you with our thanks, cellphone compatible, and of course you are likely to be in yet another video.

Provide your Name ( or a screen name whatever you like ) , City , Country, short quotable message
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COOL GLOBES COMES TO LOS ANGELES

EARTH DAY 2009

National public art exhibit features colorful, larger-than-life globes that showcase simple solutions to global warming

WHAT: In partnership with Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, Councilman Bernard Parks, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the City of Los Angeles, “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” will be the featured exhibit in Los Angeles’ beautiful Exposition Park this spring. Public art with a purpose, this vibrant, engaging and educational exhibit features 50 sculpted globes, each 2,000 pounds, 7 feet tall and custom-designed by local, national and international artists to showcase a solution to reduce global warming. The Grand Opening will include live music, free food, kids’ activities and a globe unveiling.

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Earthday Video Celebration Mashup

Happy Earthday everyone -
this is our April 22nd Celebration edit
- with thanks to:
John Paul DeJoria - Paul Mitchell Systems
Anne Hathaway - Daryl Hannah
The Fuel Film - Sheryl Crow
Activist Entertainment - Alexander Mendeluk
William Seibold , Sir Richard Branson
Agape International - Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith
Dr. Jeff Schweitzer
Neal Gray & Neyash Monigan
REVERB / Earth Keepers
Will.i.am & John Legend
Lola Berry , Mel Kirk
Conscious Living TV - Michael & Bianca Alexander
Carolyn Scott The Healthy Voyager

EARTHDAY Plant a MILLION TREES

http://www.milliontreesla.org
Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa

“I love this amazing city, and I know you do too. As part of a larger effort to make Los Angeles greener, cleaner, healthier and more beautiful for us all to enjoy, I have launched the Million Trees LA initiative; the plan is to plant one million trees over the next several years. This is a partnership between the City of Los Angeles, community groups, businesses and individuals like you, working together to plant and provide long-term stewardship of one million trees, planted all over the city with a focus on areas that need it most.”

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GREEN MAGAZINE

Select from The Available Free online issues:

CTN GREEN MAGAZINE always scales to optimize size and quality. No extra click to make it readable, or users lost on some “Zoom Mode” they have to escape from to continue.

STAYING TRUE TO THE PARADIGM The magazine engine had been focus group studied for 6 months during development. It is In-house custom-coded and available for your publication by visiting www.ctndigital.com. This was done because all other options currently available fall short of our quality standard and user experience expectations. We command a full screen presence without the added need to zoom even more to become usefully readable. All other systems end up treating you to the equivalent of a PDF.

THIS SYSTEM by CTNDIGITAL is without doubt the best way to tell a story while commanding a full screen presence in an expected manner.

VIDEO Our video streams are specially prepared to arrive gracefully and scale cleanly to any screen resolution. Controls are Play/Pause, progress of download and play position with audio mute, and placed into the page to suit design. A close/exit button upper right will dismiss the video. Many pages have a story to tell that is best done not through reading but by seeing and hearing, hence many will auto-play when the page turn is completed. We also have end-of-play options that provide for yet more re-use of the page, by replacing the area with more info and links to drill down details.

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A Living Document:
CTNgreen magazine is not static, but in fact grows and changes during its lifecycle from issue opening date to the inevitable next issue opening. Its well worth a repeat visit since every couple of days new content, ( perhaps fresh new coupons ) and video interviews and articles are provided to us, if its very cool and very real, then in it goes.

SIZE MATTERS
CTN always fills whatever screen you have, as one of the very few best-of-class presentations with as much visual detail as possible. Crisp accurate and beautiful works better than any other mode of screen-based delivery. Virtual and paperless is eco-smart and many times more powerful than anything a paper product can provide,with video and links to your web-presence.

CONNECTED:
link always goes to the latest issue at www.ctngreen.com/mag

Each page is is one-click linkable ( meaning the magazine loads, gracefully presents the cover and automatically turns to the specific linked page) , Sitemapped ( search engines are page-aware ),  and lives forever once launched. The GET PAGE LINK in the Magazine is a fast copy to clipboard of that page link, to paste into your blog or article. We do not force the user to cough up an email address to do this, no extra effort or compromise is requested or required.

SOCIAL NETWORK LINKING
Each page spread has a direct link generator for Twitter and Facebook. Social/viral direct-to-page clicks are easy. Look for the icons bottom center of every page spread.

The One Click Link
In most online magazines, any page inside the online publication is essentially lost until someone happens upon it. In CTNGREEN MAGAZINE we link directly to, and have the ability to directly promote any page within, from anywhere… including our email newsletter and the newsletters of our partners.

For example, current issue link to Pevonia Botanica:
http://ctngreen.com/2009/jan/?page=22

Example LINK URL for Nov 2008, page 24 BAMBOO:
http://ctngreen.com/2008/nov/?page=24

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These are our Friends
and we want you to get to know them. Henrik Fisker, designer of the incredibly cool KARMA, Mariel Hemingway ( going green for real, upfront and unbridled ) and Josh Tickell ( rooting for his FUEL Film to get that oscar ), Linda Loudermilk ( Exraordinary fashion eco-lux clothing that feeds your body and soul), Bradford Rand ( the man both behind and in front of the amazing Go Green EXPO), and Terry Torok ( the empassioned filmmaker/ecologist and creative mind behind the Perf GoGreen stuff ) are just a few of the many that we are honored to have a great connection with, and offer you an upclose and real view of it.

Sometimes we encounter a real high value gem in the mix of green things out there. To reward such extra effort, we have an excellence award for 2009, for specific categories in the Green Space. Its always better to have someone-else say nice things about you ( that you deserve ) than it is to toot your own tin horn and do that yourself.

We are sincere in our belief that recognition should be earned and respected, and not subjected to some bulleted criteria or column fodder for coolness in some ‘green-enough’ list. Our way is good old yankee common-sense found from paying attention to details. In some few cases the most quality green people are not even in the spotlight often, do not seek out any awards, and are appropriately humble about it.

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LAST CALL for the Summer Issue living document ( this issue ) insertions, Living document update is August 10th - add comment below if you have something that we should cover
Insertion for the Fall Issue are open now — call for that is August 22nd - contact Neal@ctnla.com

Death of the Newsprint

Can design save the newspaper? Jacek Utko thinks so — and his lively, engaging designs for European papers prove that it works.

The paradigm shift to aggregated news portals and internet news engines ( like ours ) is causing the industry in general to thrash and seek new models for business and new ways to engage.

CTN spent a year studying this trend, paperless virtual eco-centric engagement of information in a very green way both here and in our magazine.

Newspaper designer Jacek Utko suggests that it’s time for a fresh, top-to-bottom rethink of the newspaper. (At this point, why not try it?) In his work, he’s proved that good design can Read more

Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility) - eclectic electric rickshaw.

If you thought you had seen everything from DEAN KAMEN, then think again. He lives up the road from us at CTNgreen North ( Bedford NH ) … commutes in a helicopter ( try hearing that at 2am when he works late ) and if an idea is fun cool outrageous and has a buttload of fancy control systems… he loves it.
Ok so i am poking some fun with the rickshaw title but, truth of this matter is that Dean K. is big on Accessability for the handicapped. The Segway was born from his wheelchair that stands up on 2 wheels to allow wheelchair users to simply be eye-to-eye with people they wish to speak to, be able to access locations by climbing stairs, and quietly travel around for hours on single charge. The PUMA is essentially a Read more

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