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"Biggest Loser" Winner Joins TreeHugger For Climate Ride Bike Trip

Photos via NBC When you loose 215 pounds, you don’t want those pounds creeping back. A good way to maintain: bike 320 miles in five days. On season 9 of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” Koli Palu sweated and dieted off a total of 215 pounds finishing at 188 (loosing 53.35 percent of his body weight!) and winning the $100,000 prize. Arguably now one of America’s most famous successful examples of drastic weight loss, Palu will join me for Brita Climate Ride , which starts bright and early tomorrow, September 21 in Eureka, California…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can You Buy New Furniture And Be Green?

A “chair bodger” in the woods Sami looked at this issue last year , but Lucy Siegle addresses the question in the Guardian and concludes that antiques are green. She quotes the website of the same name: The chair parts were made by craftsmen who lived in the woods where the materials came from. The turnings… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Changing the Face of Hospital Food in Virginia

photo: Sara Novak When I saw this story I couldn’t help the huge grin that appeared on my face. I was born and raised in Charlottesville, Va so a story such as this in my small hometown lightens my heart. While hospital food certainly has a bad reputation, and in many cases, it’s deserved, the University Health System at the University of Virginia is taking steps to change all that thanks to Local Food Hub …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Celeb Rehab’ Star Bails on Real Rehab After 3 Days

Filed under: Kari Ann Peniche , TV , Nurse! Another major setback for former ” Celebrity Rehab ” star Kari Ann Peniche — TMZ has learned the ex-Playboy model has thrown in the rehab towel again — this time after only three days. A rep for Peniche tells us the former model decided to bail on a… Read more

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Glenn Beck Nails Climate Change Predictions (Video)

Photo via USA Today Glenn Beck isn’t exactly the most respected voice in the climate change conversation (though he may strive to be the loudest). Yet all that may change after people realize that he actually hit the nail on the head with his predictions last year for what woes climate change would bring upon the world. See the video documenting this unlikely occurrence after the jump . . …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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90 Percent of Monterrey Bay Dolphins Plagued by Mysterious Lesions

Image credit: cheetah100 /Flickr Just as scientists make forward progress towards a cure for the contagious face-eating cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils , an outbreak of mysterious skin lesions has spread through at least on population of bottle-nosed dolphins…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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No-Nose Bicycle Seats: Are They The Answer to Erectile Dysfunction And Prostate Problems Among Cyclists?

I will not go into detail about why I visited the doctor last night, but after describing my symptoms and being the subject of a rigorous examination, his first question was, “Do you ride a bicycle?” When I said yes, everywhere, he gave me his prescription: “Get a new bicycle seat.” I was seriously relieved, but even though my beloved doctor has told me before to “never trust Dr. Google”, I wanted a second opinion and of course, started on TreeHugger. Andrew looked at the issue in a post two years ago and was

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Audrina Patridge’s Little Booty In Short Shorts

Here’s Audrina Patridge showing off her hot little Dancing With The Stars body in a sweet pair of short shorts and an even sweeter little tank top. I can’t wait to see those fake boobies bouncing around my television. I’m still holding auditions for the latest season of Dancing With The Celebrity Blogger , there’s lots of room left Audrina, so far I’ve got a couple of crack whores and a midget who may or may not have defecated in my laundry basket. I knew I shouldn’t have trusted that mini douche. more pictures of Audrina Patridge here

The Week in Pictures: Thick Layer Of Oil Found on Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, New York Green Fashion Week, and More (Slideshow)

More bad news has surfaced about the BP oil spill: the Mississippi River has been clogged with thousands of dead fish in it’s wake and researchers have discovered that a lot of the oil that some thought had evaporated has actually just settled on the Gulf of Mexico seafloor. In other unsettling green news this week, 10,000+ walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska; for the first time a non-Russian flagged commercial bulk carrier will use the Northern Sea Route (the northeast passage); the U.S. Clean Air Act celebrates it’s 40th birthday, and in New York, designers show their e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature’s Pest-Fighters to NY Sculpture Park (Video)

The Bat Tower under construction in Griffis Sculpture Park. Photo via GOOD . If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the spooky occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy “Bat Tower” a group of architectural students is building to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area — and raise awareness about the positive role these sometimes creepy-seeming critters play in the local ecosystem…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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