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Don’t Miss the Weekend Without Oil August 21 & 22!

If you prefer to walk or bike instead of using a car, enjoy being outside, use reusable bags, avoid plastic bottles, eat meat sparingly or not at all, research makeup and cosmetic products for safety, carry a refillable water bottle, and generally avoid buying crap you don’t need and using the stuff you do have as long as it is useful, then you are well on your way to successfully completing by DoSomething ‘s Weekend Without Oil challenge. So sign the pledge! The Weekend Without Oil is this weekend – August 21 & 22 – and aims to educate teens and pe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hyper-Invasive Kudzu Worsens Ozone Levels, Air Pollution

photo: Donna Sullivan-Thomson via flickr Just as much of the US east of Appalachia is in the midst of a serious heat wave comes word that kudzu –that hyper-invasive vine that can grow up to seven feet a week and will cover everything in its path–contributes to the production of ozone. At its worst it can help create seven more days a year when ozone levels exceed air pollution limits. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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German Airports Use Bees As Biodetectives For Air Pollution

Photo by bwohack The Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports in Germany have decided that bees are the best “biodetectives” for monitoring local air quality. By regularly testing the honey of hives placed on airport premises, researchers are able to see what toxins are in the air and being captured by the flora and fauna. From planes themselves to the buses, taxis, freight trucks and other vehicles used at airports, ensuring the air pollution stays under regulated levels is important; bees seem to be the perfect for the task…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Activists Send a Message by Cleaning Things Up a Bit

Photo via Patricia Preiss When police arrived to a tunnel in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil, having received word that some youths were tagging its walls with graffiti , it must have seemed like a pretty clear case of vandalism. But after a few of the culprits were handcuffed, ready to be taken to the station, the officers realized that the group was armed not with paint, but with simple

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Ignoring Soot Pollution Means We’re 8 More Years Behind Schedule in Tackling Climate Change

Cairo is behind that smog… photo: Nina Hale via flickr TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming–contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just one example. Now, a group of researcher… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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