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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Image via Macro Sea When I was a little kid and recycling went mainstream, the only thing I loved more than the idea you could actually get money for taking your squashed soda cans down to the recycling shed at the grocery store was the squashing part. It was so satisfying to set a can upright, jump on it, and feel it completely flatten under your foot – especially when it flattened into a perfect little hockey puck. That release of pent up energy is part of what’s behind the Glassphemy project by Macro Sea , which lets you send your anger, frustration, or gi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Glassphemy Project Lets You Pitch Glass Bottles At Friends, and Not Get Arrested
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The Thames has come a long way from the polluted mess it once was just a few years ago. Clean-up efforts have been so successful, even fragile and fickle seahorses have returned . Now, the citizens of London can even drink the river water, thanks to a new desalination plant that has just opened up. It is the United Kingdom’s first desal plant, and while it will provide the city with much needed drinking water, desalination is not withou… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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UK’s First Desalination Plant Opens on Thames to Quench Londoners’ Thirst
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Photo by author: Janine Benyus + InterfaceFLOR CEO Lindsey Parnell at Saf London Yesterday in a sunny corner of London, a select group of UK journalists, myself included, were treated to an enrapturing few hours in the company of biomimicry guru Janine Benyus . The group was brought together by sustainable business pioneers InterfaceFLOR , whose long standing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can We Use Biomimicry To Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says, Why Not?
‘Cool Water, Hot Island’ rendering by Molly Dilworth This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) . Her project ” Cool Water, Hot Island ” will refresh and revive the streetscape designs currently at the Times Square pedestrian a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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reNEWable Times Square: Cool Water, Hot Island
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Andrew Sullivan shows us the world’s luckiest bicyclist, and writes that “it looks as if he barely notices.” It’s true…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP would prefer you to see photos like this: One of the lucky pelicans, rescued from the oil spill and released in St Petersburg, Florida. Photo: US Coast Guard . This stage management/damage control is just really starting to piss me off… According to reports in Mother Jones and the Daily News BP has apparently banned o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Bans Workers From Sharing Photos of Animals Killed by the Oil Spill
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Today on Planet 100: BP Rage (Video)
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Shark fin soup can even be found canned, in Chinatown in Honolulu. Photo via istolethetv Shark fin soup is one of the primary reasons why sharks are disappearing from our oceans at frightening rates. The nearly tasteless fins are carved from live sharks – their bodies tossed overboard to drown – and sold for huge bucks. A single bowl of shark fin soup can go for as much as $150. But the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hooray! Hawaii Outlaws Shark Fin Soup
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Image: Twitter, @SarahPalinUSA Palin’s Twisted Logic You have to give her that, it takes guts to seriously pretend that the BP oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico is evidence that “drill, baby, drill” was a more environmentally-friendly policy. Let’s start with the hypocrisy: Never at any time before the BP oil spill did the “drill, baby, drill” crowd advocate stopping offshore drilling and replacing it with onshore drilling…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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