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Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)

“Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over.” Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how this radical approach is being put to work, pulling endangered species back from the brink, relinking critical habitats, and keeping the biological mechanisms of the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Big Society Versus Big Government Versus Catastrophic Climate Change

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Alan Cleaver (Creative Commons) When I wrote about UK Conservatives’ Big Society campaign as an alternative to Big Government, commenters were skeptical. Yet there has been a lot of (admittedly guarded) interest from grassroots green groups like the Transition Movement . After all, “think global, act local” has been a mantra of the environmental movement for decades. But ho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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2010 Is Now Tied For Hottest Year on Record (So Far)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Pranav Yaddanapudi via flickr New NOAA temperature data has been released including August temperatures and this year’s record-setting global trend continues: “For January-August 2010, the global land and ocean surface temperature of 14.7°C tied with 1998 as the warmest January-August period on record. This value is 0.67°C above the 20th century average.” August itself went down in history as being among the warmest recorded as well…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying course to draw attention to one of the planet’s great ” plastic gyres ,” swirling accumulatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lance Hosey on the Shape of Green Architecture (Podcast)

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

To assemble its A-List of the world’s best buildings, Vanity Fair magazine called on the elites of the architecture world to pick their favorite structures. Shocked at the distinct absence of green buildings, architect Lance Hosey immediately set out to create his own G-List , tapping the leaders in the sustainable design community. Lance discusses what he found, as well as his upcoming book on how space and form may trump technology and gizmos when it comes to future-friendly archi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China’s Coast Under Siege By Massive Algae Slick

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Soldiers struggle to clean the Qingdao coast during a similar algae bloom in 2008. Image credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Qingdao, China, is famous for its temperate sea air and “Tsingtao” beer but, during the summer, the gentle coast becomes a fertile bed for massive, smelly, algae blooms. The last major bloom occurred in 2008 and threatened the sailing competitions of the Beijing Olympics. This year, another bloom as blossomed—and has grown by 50 percent in less than a week…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wade Davis on What it Means to be Human and Alive

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit: Ryan Hill Wade Davis might have the most amazing job on the planet. Trained as an anthropologist and ethnobotonist, he’s lived among some of the most remarkable cultures of the world and been witness to (and participant in) many moments that no outsider has ever seen. Davis has written scores of books, but is probably best known for The Serpent and the Rainbow , a riveting account of his journey into Haitian voodoo culture to find the zombie potion. He talks with TreeHugger Radio about the essential importance of cultural diversity, and what each culture brings to “the table of human know… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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App Calculates Oil Spill Damage, Lets You Play "What If" Games

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via NASA Goddard Photo and Video Yesterday I was perusing infographics on global oil spills over the years – a great way to feel disturbed and depressed in under an hour – and wondered how it is we even calculate the amount of oil lost in leaks. Turns out, the Oil Spill Training Company Limited has an app called The Slick Calculator And Reporter, which uses the Bonn Agreement Code — an internationally recognized system — to generate the calculations. By using the appearance of the overall … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Isabella Rossellini, The Green Porn Star

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ever since she was a child, legendary model and actress Isabella Rossellini has been fascinated and amused by animals and their intricate rituals. Wanting to share her passion with the world through film, she chose a premise no one can say no to. Sex. Thus spawned Green Porno , followed by Seduce Me ; short films (all starring Ms. Rossellini herself) that depict in dreamlike sce… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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