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DBA’s 98% Biodegradable Pen (Made From Potatoes)

Image: DBA When you realize how amazing it is when little things add up, look no further than your pen. Conventional pens are often mass produced with non-recyclable, petroleum-based materials, filled with inks that contain toxic chemicals and blister-packed in non-recyclable PVC packaging. It’s a recipe that means these small but major candidates are seriously plugging up our landfills when you multiply these factors millions of times over. That’s why we can appreciate DBA’s 98 Pen, which is not only 98% biodegradable but is also eco-friendly from its manufacture to its packaging. Take a look at some of these staggering pen statistics: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Want to Stop Global Warming? Keep Out the Immigrants! (Video)

Image via Time You’ve likely heard a pretty diverse range of arguments from advocates of Arizona’s draconian anti-illegal immigration law, and of cracking down on immigration in general: immigrants are stealing American jobs, unduly siphoning off taxpayer money, causing crime rates to rise, and other, even more xenophobic claims. But here’s one I bet you haven’t heard before: illegal immigrants are causing global warming . And if we care about stopping climat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Los Angeles, Without the Cars (Video)

Screen grab from Running on Empty video by Ross Chin. You can watch the video below. The best kind of art makes us see the world differently. Ross Ching created a video of something almost impossible to conceive: Los Angeles without cars. He used time-lapse techniques to capture the movements of clouds, people, traffic lights… But no cars. They were removed in Photoshop by layering enough still images that all parts of the image covered by cars could be replaced by parts from other pics where a car wasn’t in that spot. The video is set to music by Radiohead,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hidden From Satellites, Amazon Burning Continues Even As Deforestation Slows

photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr Here’s an interesting wrinkle on the ongoing effort to slow Amazon deforestation: Reuters reports that even though tree-felling is indeed slowing , the area of land being burned by farmers is actua… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: BP Bans Photos of Animals Killed by Oil Spill, Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill", The All-Electric Supercar, and More (Slideshow)

Another week goes by and oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico and if we have a rough hurricane season, things could get apocalyptic. All the attempts to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have failed so far, and even the latest attempt to cut-and-cap the well has hit a snag. BP has apparently banned oil spill clean up contractors from sharing photos of dead animals washed ashore; One contractor took a Daily News reporter out to see, in his words, what BP didn’t want President Obama to see. In other news Sarah Palin defends “Drill, Baby, Drill” on Twitter; Bugatti is experimenting with an electric powertrain that d… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: BP Bans Photos of Animals Killed by Oil Spill, Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill", The All-Electric Supercar, and More (Slideshow)

Record Rains Drown and Strand Animal Residents of Zimbabwe’s Starvation Island

A water buck attempts to swim from Starvation Island to the mainland in northern Zimbabwe. Photo by the Associated Press It may take another Noah’s Ark to save the population of Zimbabwe ‘s sadly aptly named Starvation Island, where record seasonal rains have flooded the Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The BP Oil Spill Has Folks Singin’ the Blues (Video)

With the BP oil leak continuing to threaten the gulf states,

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Virgin America Tops Greenest US Domestic Airline Rankings

photo: Glenn Fleishman via flick If you’re already fan of Virgin America here’s another reason to like them: Greenopia has just ranked them the greenest US domestic airline of the ten major airlines they surveyed. Alaska Airlines and Continental took second and third place, with United and US Airways bringing up the rear. Here’s how those results were calculated:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Making a Warm Weather Supper From Wilted Kale with Lemon and Garlic

Photo: Emma Alter I spent the weekend looking through a new cookbook from Williams-Sonoma called Cooking From the Farmers’ Market. I’ve only made a few things from it so far, but I’m enjoying it. It’s not a vegetarian cookbook, but the emphasis is on the fruits and vegetables that are available in the market. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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