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Thoughts on Lollapalooza: Concerts Getting Cleaner?

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos by Jeff Kart So I spent the weekend at Lollapalooza, along with another 200,000 or so people, rocking out to headliners like Green Day, The Strokes and Lady Gaga. And I noticed something. For the most part, people were doing the right thing: Recycling their beer cans, using refillable water bottles, putting trash in its place. Now this may not seem like a revolution, but it’s worth mentioning, especially against the backdrop of the first few Lollapaloozas I attended back in the 1990s…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artists Recycle Lottery Tickets into Stuff They’d Buy

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream . Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big — but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being just pricey bits of trash. One recycling artistic team, however, has begun transforming all those losing tickets into something with real value — the stuff a gambler may have purch… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Texas Oil Companies Funding Campaign to Overturn CA Climate Law

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

A few years ago, the state of California passed a landmark bill designed to reign in carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2020, and Governor Schwarzenegger signed it into law. Now, the trailblazing law is beginning to take effect — but wouldn’t you know it? The fossil fuel industry and conservative politicians who ally themselves with it are attempting to shut it down. In particular, a number of Texas-based oil companies have begun funneling millions of dollars into misleading campaigns designed to overturn California’s law…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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This Car Runs on Poop: The Bio Bug

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

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Why Does Digg Hate Global Warming?

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

Image via Encefalus Any respectable blogger working today is at least aware of the many social media websites that contribute to our articles reaching a wider audience: Reddit , Yahoo Buzz, Stumble Upon, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Digg . Digg is the most powerful ‘social media’ website — stories that get submitted there stand to be viewed by more people than anywhere else. Yet over the years, as I wrote story after story here at TreeHugger, I started noticing a trend — if my post directly concerned c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sting Opens a Food Store (in Italy)

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

Images from Daily Mail What is it about celebrities and food and shops? We’ve got Prince Charles and his farm store, Liz Hurley and her organic vegetables and Jo Wood (ex-Rolling Stone wife) and hers… It’s not like they ever work there…. Now we have S… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP’s Real Crisis Command Center Revealed (Photo)

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via BP An amusing footnote to the BP Gulf spill surfaced yesterday, when a blogger noticed that the oil company had (badly) photoshopped pictures of its supposed crisis command center in Austin, Texas. See the bizarre photos, and the proof of the photo-doctoring here . That photo above, in fact, isn’t authentic. So what does BP’s crisis command center truly look like? Boing Boing unearthed a photo of the real thing:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The "LOL OIL" Tesla Vanity License Plate

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Imgur, via Digg Better to Laugh than to Cry Getting off oil is one of the hardest things that our petroleum-addicted society will have to do. It’s a challenge of epic proportions, and it’s going to be hard especially in the transportation sector where oil utterly dominates as a source of energy. We’ll need to change our cities (make them more like Copenhagen ), and change our vehicles (allow them to be powered by clean(er) sources, like electricity from renewables). All of this will be … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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PETA Says: We Resort to Naked-Women-Gimmickry Because It Works

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

Last week we wrote about PETA’s latest campaign that features Olivia Munn in the buff , intended to bring attention to the cruel treatment of circus elephants. We questioned the ad’s true effectiveness. PETA sent in a response to the post, expressing reasons why they feel the use of nudity works to further their cause. Thanks for making some points about Ringling’s cruelty to animals even though you don’t like PETA’s new anti-circus PSA featuring Olivia Munn. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Translating Natural and Organic Product Labels

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Good Most beauty products—whether they’re natural, organic, or conventional—have some kind of label listing the main ingredients. Understanding what that label means—and how to compare one label to another—is no easy task. Good wants to make it easier with their quick guide to translating natural beauty product labels…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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