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Go For the Goal With Designer Recycled Soccer Balls

Photo via Branch In honor of the 2010 World Cup , one company has designed a handbag made from recycled soccer balls, so sports enthusiasts can show the world they’re fans of the environment too. The idea is quite simple: take a ball that has sprung a leak, turn it inside out, and there you have it–a piece of old sporting equipment magically transformed into a hot new fashion accessory your friends will sure get a kick out … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Go For the Goal With Designer Recycled Soccer Balls

London’s Lord Mayor Cries: ‘Stop Ruining Our Pensions By Being Mean To BP’

“The Lord Mayor of London arrives to make a short speech” Image credit: UK Student Life Digby brings to our attention that a great many UK pensioners rely on BP stock as an underpinning of their retirement income (as, apparently, do some 35% of Americans). Hence, they are angry about BP’s ‘poor’ treatment in US media (and on blogs like this one we can suppose) as it is trashing their stock. I bet they really hate Obama’s demand that dividends be withheld until the damages are assessed.

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London’s Lord Mayor Cries: ‘Stop Ruining Our Pensions By Being Mean To BP’