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Top 5 Oiled Up Scenes

Just add water? No way! We’d rather see a chick soaked in oil, all slick and shiny. Watch as Lisa Donatz , Corinne Kingsbury , Amy Reid , Mimi Rogers , Holly Sampson , Julie Strain get slicked up and fondled.

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Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Photo: Steve Snodgrass , Flickr, CC Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim that the Exxon refinery, which operates on the Gulf coast, has violated federal air pollution laws “thousands of times”. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How to Build With Roundwood Timber Framing (Video)

Image credit: Permaculture Media While regenerative coppice forestry may be struggling to take off in the US , in the UK Ben Law’s stunning woodland house has shown many people around the world that there are a myriad of ways to work with our woodlands to create building materials, fuel and food from what surrounds us. Roundwood timber framing is one such technique tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Photo: Steve Snodgrass , Flickr, CC Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim that the Exxon refinery, which operates on the Gulf coast, has violated federal air pollution laws “thousands of times”. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Greenest Nation? Vatican City Has Most Solar Power Installed Per Capita

photo: Matthew McDermott Let’s leave differences about the Roman Catholic Church’s metaphysical teachings and some of their social stances aside for the moment, and recognize that

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BP Gulf Spill the #1 Twitter Trend for 2010

Photo: US Coast Guard There were 25 billion 140-character tweets sent out in 2010, and more of them were concerned with the BP Gulf Spill than any other topic. Twitter has just released its list of the top 10 tweets for 2010, and it’s a pretty interesting blend of pop culture phenomena, world events, and debuting gadgetry. And seeing as how Twitter has grown to be pretty international in its reach and user base, I was a tad surprised to see that the BP spill took the top slot. Here’s how

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BP Gulf Spill the #1 Twitter Trend for 2010

Photo: US Coast Guard There were 25 billion 140-character tweets sent out in 2010, and more of them were concerned with the BP Gulf Spill than any other topic. Twitter has just released its list of the top 10 tweets for 2010, and it’s a pretty interesting blend of pop culture phenomena, world events, and debuting gadgetry. And seeing as how Twitter has grown to be pretty international in its reach and user base, I was a tad surprised to see that the BP spill took the top slot. Here’s how

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The True Cost of Powering a Light Bulb for a Year (Infographic)

Image: GOOD Ever wonder how much electricity it takes to keep a single light bulb running for the year? The folks over at GOOD did, and they produced this great infographic to make the answer (alarmingly) clear. The short of it? It takes way more than you’d think. Here are a few of the more surprising revelations from the piece:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept.

Photo: Jungbim , Wikimedia, CC Not all of the cables aired in the latest Wikileaks focus on the tense, high-stakes diplomacy with China, Afghanistan, or the Middle East, though that stuff certainly grabs the headlines. Yet there are quiet revelations about other important diplomatic subjects as well — like Canada, for instance. And no, the news is not that our northern neighbor is boring ; it’s about concern over tar sands…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Workers Scramble to Clean a Giant Popcorn Spill

Photo: Bruno Rico, via UltimoSegunda Last week, a boat in the Amazon spilled around 210,000 gallons of popcorn into a major river , making the surface of the water look a bit like the floor of a movie theater . Fortunately, it didn’t take long before an oil company’s emerge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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