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Solar-Powered Toothbrush Needs No Toothpaste

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image of toothbrush via ingridtaylor ; image of solar powered brush via Canada.com It’s one thing to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power. It’s another thing altogether to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power and eliminates the need for you to ever buy toothpaste again. Sound too good to be true? It might be. Though Shiken company of Japan believes otherwise now that they’ve created a tooth… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: WasteZero Some places have looked at paying people to recycle , but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a “pay-as-you-throw” scheme for trash , our readers were broadly supportive of the idea. However, the UK Conservative Party (which is … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Spontaneous City’ of Birdhouses Springs Up in London

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images: London Fieldworks Rapid urbanization and widespread habitat destruction stemming from human activities are negatively impacting wildlife populations as never before. City-dwelling birds, which are an integral part of urban ecologies, are no exception. As this thought-provoking ‘mass bird-housing’ installation by eco-artist collective London Fieldworks shows (more photos after the j… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Earth Has 12% Fewer Mangroves Than Previously Thought, New Satellite Data Reveals

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Tim Keegan via flickr We’ve known the world’s mangrove forests have been declining for some time, but new satellite imagery from the US Geological Survey and NASA shows that the situation is worse than we thought: More accurate mapping tells us there are 12.3% fewer mangroves than previously believed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Illegal Logging by Pakistan’s Timber Mafia Increased Flooding Devastation

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan . A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the ‘timber mafia’ has increased erosion, landslides, and even sent felled trees floating down rivers damaging bridges and dams. The original article goes through the timber mafia connection with the Taliba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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George Monbiot Girds For Bruising Battle Against The Madness of Vertical Farms

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

StudioMobile: Vertical farm in Dubai George Monbiot is one of the better environmental writers around, and also one of the most controversial. He acknowledges the fact and says “I find myself at odds with other greens almost as often as I find myself fighting our common enemies. I’ve had bruising battles over a long series of miracle solutions supported by my friends.” And now he is ready to rumble once again, on that issue that is front of mind for every environmentalist: Vertical farms. He writes

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Space Truck with Giant Butterfly Nets To Clean Orbiting Trash

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit ESA In the ongoing attempt to come up with the best idea for r emoving the waste that orbits the earth , we’ve seen some real doozies for ideas — from launching water to knock it out of orbit to the more feasable giant GoLD balloon . But the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Finisterre’s Still Making Waves in Waterproofs and Wool

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

When I’m a grown up I’m going to donate my fleeces to Finisterre. All photos: Finisterre As we’ve noted before, Finisterre is a fiercely independent crew of surfers, out of Cornwall, making highly functional, and award winning, outdoor clothing with a deep ethical and ecological bent. Of recent note is a). their new Anabatic II rain shell, made of recycled and recyclable polyester, b). their exclusive line of double ply Merino wool/organic cotton Tees, and c). their ongoing venture to bring British Bowmont sheep (pictured above), and their superfine wool back from the edge of extinction…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jellyfish Theatre is a New Form of Junkitechture

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images from Oikos Project Some are calling it ” junkitechture “, a new way of building and designing using only recycled and reclaimed materials. The Jellyfish Theatre, which is under construction right now, is a prime example of this new architecture. It will be the first UK theatre made completely of old materials from all sources: junked theatre sets, building sites, 800market pallets, old kitchen units that the public bring along. There will ev… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Birth of Adorable Liger Cubs Lands Zoo in Hot Water

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

Photo via The Telegraph If being adorable was a crime, these liger cubs would clearly be in a great deal of trouble — but that’s not why they were seized recently by authorities in Taiwan. In Taipa’s “World Snake King Education Farm” a lion and a tiger were apparently allowed to produce offspring without first getting governmental approval to permit the breeding — grounds for having the animals relocated and the zoo fined. Officials fr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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