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Solar-Powered Water Treatment at Superfund Site Inspires Renewable Energy Projects

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via peasap Superfund sites are hazardous waste areas that were once abandoned but have (finally) received funding for clean-up efforts. They’re all over the US and are usually kept on the down-low in the public eye by the government since they’re so hazardous to those living nearby. So when something is going right at a superfund site, the EPA is eager to get the same good thing going at other s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vogue Fashion’s Night Out Takes an Eco-Friendly Spin with Bike Helmet Design Contest, Win €3.000!

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Shicon . How do you interpret “Eco Fashion” style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3.000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500 folding bike, which fits in the truck of the 2-cylind… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EPA Changes Rules For Cement Industry, Cleaning Up Mercury Pollutants

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via flickr The Obama administration has been on the receiving end of a lot of heat lately, and deservedly so after it chose to let the climate bill whither on the vine. But lost in the shuffle are many of the other positive steps the administration is taking to preserve our environment. Case in point: Today EPA finalized regulations the will require cement kilns to reduce emissions of mercury and other pollutants by more than 90 percent, a step that will save money and improve public health…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Financier Made $1 Billion Bet on Oil During BP Spill

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via CNN The billionaire financier Carl Icahn snapped up $929 million worth of shares in oil-related energy companies in the months following the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon site , new reports are revealing. Icahn made the nearly $1 billion bet as shares in the industry were falling to all-time lows, and it’s thought that this investment helped the energy sector rebound in July. But what I want to focus on is the nature of Icahn’s bet: His $1 billion bet was based … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Endangered Sharks (Video)

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Your Office is In Your Pants: 6 Trends Shaping The Way We Work

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the Mad Men style office that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your office is where you are. They were off by about 25 years; it takes time for technological innovation to percolate through and cause real change. They also didn’t go far enough, thinking only about the promise of being able to talk on the phone; now the technology is getting so small that your office isn’t just where you are, it’s in your pants. Now Sami Grover is my favourite TreeHugger writer, (… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Drug-Resistant Flesh-Eating Germs More Common with Superbugs

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Necrotizing Fasciitis illustration (trust us, you don’t want to see actual photos…) Sandy Wilson woke up after giving birth to her son to find that she was the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria. Over the course of five years, it ate away her skin, spleen, gall bladder, appendix, part of her stomach and ultimately, all of her intestines. The condition appears out of nowhere and used to be fairly rare, caused by a single type of strep bacteria. But now, drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA can make “flesh-eating” toxins that attack diabetics, obese… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Will Small Businesses Survive Peak Oil?

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Food Info From Yahoo to Virgin, big business is waking up to the threat of peak oil . So much so, that Virgin bross Richard Branson believes we should be mobilizing for peak oil as if for war . But what about the little guy? It’s often assumed that because peak oil will make global shipping a challenge, that we’ll just transition back to smaller, more local economies. I suspect the truth will be … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artists Recycle Lottery Tickets into Stuff They’d Buy

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream . Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big — but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being just pricey bits of trash. One recycling artistic team, however, has begun transforming all those losing tickets into something with real value — the stuff a gambler may have purch… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA Launches Google Phones Into Space as Cheap Satellites

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via COED Magazine What happens when NASA geeks hangout with Google employees? Well, they duct tape their Android-based phone to a space rocket and blast it 28,000 feet into the air. Duh! It’s the quintessential Maker Faire project! Coined the NexusOne PhoneSat proj… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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