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iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill

Photos: FareShare “Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria,” suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards. So far this year they’ve saved 468 tonnes of food that would’ve otherwise been sent to landfill. Then 3,000 volunteers have cooked 1,114,461 meals for the needy, and doing so FareShare has supported 130 charities. As those impressive figures suggest, this is no ordinary do-gooder group, but a well-oiled, switched-on, dynamic organisation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Laura Vandervoort In Her Cute Little Undies

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Laura Vandervoort In Her Cute Little Undies

Here’s Laura Vandervoort hanging out in her undies for some sort of photoshoot. I don’t really have much else to say about it, she’s hot, I’d like to spend some quality time in the tub with her, but I don’t really think that’s going to happen any time soon. Not because she’s too good for me, but because I’ve been using my tub to make my own home made root beer so we’ll have to go to her place. Problem solved.

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3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program . The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues that the teachers can then give back to their students and communities. I’m traveling along to report on the trip’s experiences and lessons. First up: A stop in Florida’s Everglades. Everglades Natio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prize… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Global CO2 Emissions to Hit Record High After Record Low in 2009

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Global CO2 Emissions to Hit Record High After Record Low in 2009

Photo: brownpau , Flickr, CC Worldwide carbon emissions sank to their lowest levels since 1999 last year, due to the global economic recession. Emissions dipped 1.3%, which is actually a smaller decline than many experts had anticipated. And alas, the respite is to be short lived: 2010 is already on track to break new world records for carbon emissions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?

Images Credit John Picken Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune , wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like “kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs.” He looks at the HOK designed Greenway Garage in Chicago and doesn’t think much of the idea, suggesting that it removes the guil… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Planet Reuse: A Dating Service For Used Materials

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Planet Reuse: A Dating Service For Used Materials

Image Credit Lloyd Alter There are some things that the Internet is very good at, including helping put people and people or things and things together. Nathan Benjamin runs a dating service for materials, putting people together with the used materials they need. ” PlanetReuse makes using reclaimed building materials effortless, expertly matching materials with designers, builders and owners to save projects money, serve LEED efforts and sustain the planet.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Two South Africans Make Mecca Pilgrimage by Bike

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Two South Africans Make Mecca Pilgrimage by Bike

Cyclists Nathim Cairncross and Imtiyaz Ahmad Haron at Mecca. Photo: Cape 2 Mecca Cycle . Every year, some 2 million Muslims descend upon Mecca to fulfill the Islamic tenet that every able-bodied believer must make the pilgrimage to the religion’s holiest spot at least once in their lives. These days, most people travel by plane to the historical location in what is today Saudi Arabia, causing concern about the environmental impact of the hajj , as the pilgrimage… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise

Photo: CFuga under a Creative Commons license . One of the striking things about Paris is that, for a major city whose metropolitan area includes nearly 12 million people, there are very few buildings more than five or six stories tall. Since 1977, soon after the construction of the 689 foot tall Tour Montparnasse, a building that sticks out like a sore thumb and is widely disliked by Parisians, there has been a height limit of 121 feet on all new buildings. (The Eiffel Tower, at 1,063 feet, is by far the tallest structure … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards

A Eurasian brown bear at a zoo in England. Photo: Scott Baverstock / Creative Commons . With hungry brown bears posing a nuisance to farmers in Armenia and Bulgaria , the two countries have taken dramatically opposing measures to solve the problem, with one legalizing hunting and the other organizing “night patrols” to protect both animals and crops…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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