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Artwork from Fires Restores Wilderness Park

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Street artist Philip Lumbang’s “New Life” on found charred metal. Photos: R.Cruger With the latest fires raging in Arizona and Brazil , I’m reminded of last year’s notorious Station Fire, the largest to ever hit Los Angeles County, destroying more than 250-acres of Angeles National Forest in August 2009, confounding firefighters with the ferocity of its reach. Ash covered my yard, particulates filled the air and a reddish haze hovered. Massive flames in the hillside were viewable within walking distance. While I holed up with t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Finding Nemo 2" Parody Posters Inspired by Oil Spill

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

Image via El Blog de Chibiboto If you thought the adventures of a wayward clownfish were heart heartwarming in Pixar’s Finding Nemo , chances are you’d walk away from its imagined sequel a bit depressed. On the heels of the next installment of Toy Story , and in light of the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fashion Delivers Mobilizes Philanthropy in the Fashion Industry, Honors Summer Rayne Oakes at Haiti Relief Benefit (Photos)

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

Summer Rayne Oakes at “Pay It Fashion Forward” in New York City. Credit: Emma Grady Eco-model and activist Summer Rayne Oakes and fast fashion brand Forever 21 are hardly–if ever–used in the same sentence. But the two came together, along with hosts Emmanuelle Chriqui of HBO’s Entourage and Bryan Greenberg of HBO’s How To Make It In America , to help raise funds for

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400+ Bugs Killed in Record-Breaking Mosquito Hunt

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

If watching the World Cup isn’t satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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San Francisco Rules for Cell Phone Radiation Warnings at Retailers

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

Photo via Guwashi999 Cell phone radiation and its impacts on health is still a highly controversial issue with the debate raging on whether or not humans are at risk every time they hold their phone to their head. Nevertheless, some municipalities aren’t willing to take the chance that one day researchers will indeed conclude we’re frying our brains and all this while they did li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Buys 32 Oil Cleanup Machines from Kevin Costner (Video)

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

Photos: screen grabs, ABC One More Tool to Combat this Interminable Oil Spill A month ago I wrote something about Kevin Costner’s machine that can separate oil and water . Back then, most of us thought that the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico would soon be plugged and that this disaster would at least stop getting worse. Well, we know how that turned out… This catastrophe has been going on for so long that BP has had time to test one of … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Just What We Needed Dept.: Tourist Lanes

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

TreeHugger loves ideas that make things smoother for non-motorized transportation. Here is one that would be a big help in cities that attract a lot of tourists: dedicated lanes. This would be particularly effective in New York, where the locals move really fast. As noted in Popup City , then the tourists can do what tourists do, like randomly change direction and walk into things while looking up instead of ahead…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vuvuzelas Can Be Eco-Friendly As Well As Noisy

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

Image from Vuvuzela Orchestra Vuvuzela: a word (and sound) that has gone from being local to global in 24 hours. It’s the plastic horn that produces the droning, buzzing sound in the background of the World Cup football matches. And you either love them, if you are South African, or hate them if you are the rest of the world. There have been pleas to ban them but World Cup organisers are asking fans to “please embrace our culture and the way we celebrate.” There are fears that they will become a staple of British games now as fans stuff them into their suitcases. But what to do with them … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Photographers Capture "Fragile" Louisiana

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

Image credit: Linda Holllinger Debbie Fleming Caffery is an award winning photographer who holds yearly photography workshops in Louisiana for small groups of artists who are keen on further developing their eye and vision in an extraordinary environment. Looking at the work of Caffery is always a delight and a surprise in that she seemingly never repeats herself. This year I asked to her to have the participating photographers take images that were “fragile.” I thought it would be interesting to see what came back. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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1.1 Million Gallons of Toxic Chemical Dispersants Now in the Gulf

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

Photo via OSTC With the gruesome pictures of oil-covered birds and soiled shorelines now rolling in, and the narrative of the spill split between BP’s continued inability to get a handle on the flow from the source and the federal government’s inability to get a handle on BP, an important element of this debacle has slid under the radar: BP has continued to deploy hundreds of thousands of toxic chemical dispersants into the Gulf — despite repeated directives from the EPA demanding th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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