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BP Gulf Spill Predicted by a 1970s Board Game?

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

Image via Metro Truth is certainly sometimes stranger than fiction. For instance, does this seem real? In the year 1970, a board game was created for an oil company known at the time as British Petroleum. In that game, called “BP Offshore Oil Strike”, players build oil rigs and drill off coastlines and in open water. Then, when the rig explodes, they have to pay a fine and clean it up. Sounds like a fun game, right? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: Why America Needs to Free Itself From Oil

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Veteran Jonathan Powers writes in CNN about how the U.S. thirst for oil threatens its economic and national security. This year, as Americans across the nation celebrate July Fourth with barbecues and fireworks, those most responsible for defending our independence, the military, will continue to fight two wars. And it is a shame that we will let yet another July Fourth pass us by without making substantial progress toward ending our unnecessary dependence on oil, a dependence that is funding the bullets that our enemies fire at our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oh No Mommy! Will the Greenies Take Fireworks Away From Us?

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We reprise some of our favorite July 4th posts: Obligatory Post About Green Fireworks for the 4th of July Fireworks are fun – who doesn’t like explosions? – and a good excuse to get together with family and friends, but they’re also not very clean. In Beijing, China, the smoke from fireworks during the new year celebrations tripled pollution levels overnight, and the toxic metals used to get the bright colorful sparks fall back to Earth, contaminating soil and water. Is there something we can do without losing the fireworks?

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Buy a Litter-Robot, Help Animals in the Gulf

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Via litter-robot.com Talk about not getting your hands dirty. A Pontiac, Michigan, company sells a gadget called the Litter-Robot . No, it’s not a consumer WALL-E . It’s an electronic litter box that scoops the poop for you…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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X-Prize Foundation Announces $10m Prize for Oil Spill Solution

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Flickr , CC A Bigger Carrot for Innovation The X-Prize Foundation ‘s mission is to “bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity”, and right now, a breakthrough in oil spill cleanup certainly would make the world a better place, so it’s no surprise that X-Prize is launching a new $10 million prize for the development of effective oil spill cleanup technologies. Will this be enough to catalyze innovation?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Activists Send a Message by Cleaning Things Up a Bit

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Patricia Preiss When police arrived to a tunnel in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil, having received word that some youths were tagging its walls with graffiti , it must have seemed like a pretty clear case of vandalism. But after a few of the culprits were handcuffed, ready to be taken to the station, the officers realized that the group was armed not with paint, but with simple

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Is this the First of Many "Oil Spill Suicides"?

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Well, it is depressing… Image: NASA, public domain. The 12th Victim of the Deepwater Horizon? If the BP oil spill in the Gulf of New Mexico never happened, William Allen “Rookie” Kruse might still be alive. At least that’s what his family thinks, and they’d like him to be considered the 12th victim of the explosion that took place on the Deepwater Horizon rig. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vacationers Ignore Tar Balls, Children Play on Oiled Beach (Video)

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

And now for your daily dose of WTF. A man visiting Destin Beach, Florida, took this incredible video, showing what at first appears to be a typical summer day at the beach: People lounging on towels, folks swimming, children playing in the break. And then he zooms in a little closer onto the sand, and — well, just watch: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jellyfish: Future Rulers of the Oceans (Slideshow)

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: the_tahoe_guy /Flickr They’re commonly known as “jellyfish” but the name is a bit of a misnomer: In fact “jellies,” or “gelatinous zooplankton,” are not fish at all. What they are, is amazing. Without bones, brains, or blood, they manage to thrive in all of the worlds oceans, in an astonishing range of depths. This versatility, however, is becoming a problem as other species are strained by steadily collapsing ecosystems .

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Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon "Slow Jam" BP Oil Spill News, Dave Matthews Speaks Up Against Mountaintop Removal, and More (Video)

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We’ll keep this one short, the video is hilarious–just watch it! NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show Tuesday night, we watched it first on

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