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AP: "Oil Leak Wouldn’t Fill Superdome" – Who Cares?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Source: Boston.com A new AP article out on Monday had my jaw on the ground. The article, By the numbers: Oil leak wouldn’t fill Superdome by Seth Borenstein seemed to play down the severity of the BP oil leak and support BP CEO Tony Hayward’s statement that the amount of oil spilled was “relatively tiny” by providing comparisons to everyday measures that we can relate to. Overwhelmed and saddened by the gargantuan size of the Gulf oil spill? A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the envi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Will Slaughtermobiles Send Industrial Killing Floors To The Gut Pile Of History?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: mobileslaughter.com When I was kid in Wisconsin every self-respecting city had it’s own brewery, and a “soda pop” bottler, and an actual butcher. At the largest scale, slaughtery achieved regional prominence – Green Bay Packers got their name from meat packing for example – and farm markets were how you got truly fresh produce. So began the Baby Boom. The succeeding half-century, eliminating local supply chains through industrial consolidation, saw the death of most local food and beverage producers. Meat included. Now, thankfully, there are signs of cre… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles For Water Are Not Green

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

PSFK, who should know better, titles its post ” Ritz-Carlton Goes Green With Plant-Based Bottles ” and points to a USA Today article which touts them as green bottles and says “Concerned about the waste, the luxury hotel chain is switching to a bottle made 100% from plants that can decompose in 30 days in a commercial composting facility, or can be reprocessed and remade 100% into new bottles.” This is… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Gambling for Good (Video)

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Reinventing the Dish and the Drainboard to Make Dishwashing Easier

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Collin is convinced that dishwashers are greener than handwashing , but I am not so sure; one or two people can take a long time to fill one up, and his calculations don’t take into account the embodied energy making the dishwasher, the space it takes up and the cost of buying and maintaining the thing. We have a Bosche that needs a $500 repair and are washing by hand these days, and I have found that the standard dishrack could use a bit of a redesign.

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Goldfish Swim in Five-Part Harmony with Quintetto (Video)

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Gizmodo It never hurts to have a little of the weird mixed in to your Friday reading, and this certainly fits the bill. For those of us tired of the classic goldfish tank, there’s a new option to hook the tanks up to our stereo systems and listen as the fish make five-part harmony just by swimming around the tank. And installation called Quintetto by Quiet Ensemble uses video cameras to turn the movements of the five fish into a fabric of ambient music…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Six Selfish Reasons You Don’t Want Dead Oceans

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by foodiesathome.com via flickr. TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world’s big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from the coast. TH asked Sharpless to please tell us how and why the health of the oceans affects each of us directly. Here are his replies: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: San Francisco’s Radiation Warning (Video)

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

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Winner Of BetaCup Challenge isn’t A Cup, It’s The KarmaCup

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

a portion of the winning entry A lot of people had doubts about the Betacup Challenge , a competition “in search of a solution to the rampant wastage of unrecyclable paper coffee cups”. There are perfectly good solutions out there right now, like reusable or travel mugs. On the Betacup site’s ” why we don’t switch to reusable page, they write that “one possible answer to this question is that it is simply not convenient.” Gee, what a surprise. But a lot of smart people are behind this, i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Winning Argument for Clean Energy Legislation?

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

Decades of research has produced a strong scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that it is caused largely by humans’ burning of fossil fuels. And over the decades, we’ve seen firsthand the dangers of relying on oil as a fuel source — the price gouging, the geopolitical struggles it produces, the pollution it creates. So it’s a bummer that Americans still need to be convinced to support clean energy legislation. But they do. And there have been many intense debates over how that convincing should be done. The image above, produced by

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