August 9, 2010
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Photo via Southerntabitha As BP pushes hard to shift attention away from the spill itself and on to clean-up and wrap-up efforts, Oceana has launched an expedition that will study the long-term effects of the disaster on the Gulf’s flora and fauna. Ho… Continue reading
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Photos by Jeff Kart So I spent the weekend at Lollapalooza, along with another 200,000 or so people, rocking out to headliners like Green Day, The Strokes and Lady Gaga. And I noticed something. For the most part, people were doing the right thing: Rec… Continue reading
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Image via Instructables The idea of showing air quality by emitting glowing colors is fairly old. In fact, in 2007, Pairs launched hot air balloons above the city that would show citizens the level of cleanliness of the air they were breathing in. Eve… Continue reading
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Image credit: Boeing As Lloyd reported a while back, Zeppelins are back—and not without good reason. Silent, stylish and low-carbon, many of us who fly regularly have been dreaming of the day when airships will once again grace the skies. (When … Continue reading
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Image credit: Food Info From Yahoo to Virgin, big business is waking up to the threat of peak oil. So much so, that Virgin bross Richard Branson believes we should be mobilizing for peak oil as if for war. But what about the little guy? It’s often ass… Continue reading
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Image Source: Alan Levine Dear Pablo: I am seeing more and more hotels claiming to be “green.” What exactly makes a hotel green? Virtually every hotel these days has signs asking you to hang your towel if you want to use it again or leave it on the fl… Continue reading
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Image courtesy of Hang Anywhere. Experienced riders only try this at home. From The Way We See the World, comes an innovative way to dry your jeans: Red straps made with post-industrial scraps, integrated into Levi’s jeans, let you hang jeans anywher… Continue reading
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Chase Vodka, from Great Britain, of all places, has been named the world’s best vodka, beating out Russia and Poland. It is made of potatoes grown in Herefordshire, a place better know for its cider. But these aren’t just any p… Continue reading
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Photo by Yvonne Ayoub Within the plumage of a peacock lies a complex architecture that’s continuously changing color. Or so it seems. Though the colors of a peacock are revered, it is just as stunning–if not more so–without them. Often referred to … Continue reading
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An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream. Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big — but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being jus… Continue reading
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John Friend and Sienna Sherman teaching yoga at Wanderlust (photo taken by Bonnie Hulkower) Last weekend, at the heart of this year’s Wanderlust Festival was Village Anusara, and in the heart of the village was John Friend, gathered with his disciples… Continue reading
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Photo: Carol Laiate Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things — but an American ghost town probably wouldn’t be one of them. Yet deep in the world’s largest rainforest lies … Continue reading
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A fracking tower (photo via flickr)
The film “Gas Land” has woken people up to the dangers of fracking–the drilling technique that uses millions of gallons of pressurized and chemically treated water to fragment rock to get to natural gas. The New Y… Continue reading
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A Northern bald ibis in the Vienna Zoo. Photo by Roberto Verzo via Flickr. It’s got an awfully ugly mug to have inspired any kind of romantic association, but our guide at the bird sanctuary in Birecik, on the Euphrates River in southeastern Turkey, w… Continue reading
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Image via Boston With the flow of oil from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico capped and most of the spilled oil skimmed from the water’s surface, incoming CEO Robert Dudley said last weekend that it was time for BP to “scaleback” its cleanup efforts, … Continue reading
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Image: joeshlabotnik, Flickr Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines. Canadian researchers bred an edibl… Continue reading
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X-Tracer and ZAP compete for the X Prize. Photos courtesy of Progressive Automotive X Prize After a series of eliminations at Michigan International Speedway over the past several weeks, the original 136 vehicles that qualified to enter the Automotive… Continue reading
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Image via COED Magazine What happens when NASA geeks hangout with Google employees? Well, they duct tape their Android-based phones to a space rocket and blast it 28,000 feet into the air. Duh! It’s the quintessential Read the full story on TreeHugger… Continue reading
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Image Credit: PowerShift 2011 via Refresh Everything In January, we told you about Pepsi’s Refresh Everything initiative, giving away $20 million in grants to individuals, businesses and non-profits that are working for change in six categories: healt… Continue reading
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Image via: Richard Perry/The New York Times People think to do yoga you have to be flexible. But the flexibility is not in the body. It’s in the mind. That’s why anyone can do it. Amen! As an expert stepping ever more deeply into the often misrepresen… Continue reading
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