Image via Reuters Most can be forgiven for having long since given up on keeping track of the technical details of BP’s various containment efforts: All the junk shots or top hats or containment domes or gerbil blasts or what have you. But it’s time to start paying attention again, since this latest attempt has the highest chance … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bill Nye Explains BP’s Containment Effort & Its Many Risks (Video)
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Image credit: DCI The previews have been running all week. Previews that show the ghosts of Beekman. And it’s episode six of The Fabulous Beekman Boys . And three sixes strung together is the sign of the beast. I have been wondering if there is a connection. If the beast is lurking at the Beekman, maybe living inside a goat and waiting to reveal himself. Or if Pokie the Llama is the beast. Or maybe one of those dudes that runs the American Hotel in Sharon Springs. If one of them was, it would be incredible, reality TV hist… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Thoughts On Ghosts, Goths and Galas At The Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm
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Photo via UNitedWeFit UNitedWeFit is making sure that BP hears everyone’s opinion about the oil disaster. In a nation-wide tour called “Bang the Drum,” they’re taking oil barrels into public places and allowing anyone to write their thoughts onto them. They’ll then be hand-delivered to BP’s offices in Houston, Texas on July 20th. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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T-Shirt Company Helps Public Give BP the What-For
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We’ve seen testimony of fisherman after fisherman and Gulf Coast resident after Gulf Coast resident lament the woes inflicted upon their home by the BP spill. So how does one go about setting himself apart from the crowd at yet another Oil Spill Commission hearing? You grab a guitar and belt out a song you wrote about the oil spill , right to the committee’s face, that’s how. And that’s exactly what the recently unemployed crawfisherma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fisherman Sings Rousing Protest Song at Oil Spill Hearing (Video)
Using celebrities to sell unsustainable products like bottled water is nothing new. From Ellen Degeneres to Jennifer Aniston, celebrities hype the bad habit. The latest, though, is sure to spark a little more attention. Dita Von Teese, an American burlesque dancer that has scored a huge amount of fame among Europeans has become the latest advocate of bottled water through a new commercial for Perrier, in which she showers. So, not only is it promoting a wasteful habit, but also a wasteful use of the product..all to keep a few eyes glued to the television screen. Check out the commercial after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dita Von Teese Showers in Perrier, Promotes Bottled Water
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Recyclart found this great photo on Flickr by StartTheDay showing a Smart car standing out from the crowd in Rome. The photographer states, “Admiring the architecture in Rome we came across this Smart car which had been decorated with a natty, crocheted cover! Never seen anything like this before!” Neither have we — but we’ve seen some amazing crocheted and knitted things before. From coral reefs to chicken sweaters, check them out after the jump…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smart Car Stands Out With Crochet Cover, Plus 6 More Knitted Wonders
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Screenshots from using InstantOilSpill Wonder what it’s like to be an endangered sea turtle in the Gulf of Mexico right now, to be bobbing along and suddenly your vision is filled with oil? A Cleaner Future has created Instant Oil Spill, an interactive website that provides just such a perspective by showing crude oil bubbling up on any website you choose to visit. Is it an eye-opener, or a time-waster?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Instant Oil Spill" Covers Your Favorite Websites in Crude
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In the last few months we’ve seen some great environmentally themed rap songs, notably John Forté’s “Oil on the Shore” and 350’s “A Rap for Copenhagen.” Now Montreal-based Da Gryptions have laid down a track to celebrate bike sharing: “The Bixi Anthem.” Check out the video:
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Viral Rap Video: "The Bixi Anthem" from Da Gryptions
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Don’t Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe. Photo: Greenpeace Jim Bohlen: 1926-2010 Jim Bohlen, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, died on Monday, a day after his 84th birthday. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. He first stepped on the world stage when he co-founded the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in opposition to nuclear weapons tests in Alaska. The committee “leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dead at 84
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Episode five in week four of The Fabulous Beekman Boys . As far as I know, neither the number four nor five are considered lucky or holy or particularly special. But this episode, I’m betting this episode is something special. Real special, real real, superduper special. As always, I’ll be working with the goat scale. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Thoughts on Cheese, Chores, and Harvesting Pigs At The Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm
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