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BP Gulf Oil Spill Cheat Sheet: A Timeline of Unfortunate Events

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig ablaze. Image: U.S. Coast Guard . It’s been a strange month in the world of energy. On the heels of the West Virgina Massey coal mine tragedy followed and an oil spill caused by a coal-carrying ship near Australia, disaster struck again on the eve of Earth Day when a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. Below is a timeline of what has happened so far. We’ll also be updating this space as news develops . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Madness: BP Left Off Second Emergency Cutoff + When Do We Say ‘Enough’?

Map of potential spill trajectory over the next few days: NOAA It just keeps going and going. New revelations about how little it would have cost to prevent the BP oil spill (only slightly exaggerating, half a million dollars for a part to the oil industry is like a couple nice dinners out to you or me), new worst-case scenarios about how long this could continue on, and (thankfully) some particularly poignant thoughts to counterbalance the mindless damage control by the chattering right wing pundits. Here’s some of the best and worst of an increasingly bad situation:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Finding the Perfect Electric Bike

Image credit: Good In the spring, biking feels so comfortable and natural happy cyclists are left wondering why they would ever drive or take public transport. Then summer hits and that pleasant morning ride becomes a sweaty nightmare. One way to fight the heat and humidity is to let the bike do some—if not all—of the work for you…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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This Is Why We’re All Effed: iPad Tops 1 Million Sales, 3G Version Is Identical, and We’re Microwaving Them

Photo via Veronica Belmont There are few things out there that do a better job than the iPad at highlighting just what’s wrong with us when it comes to our gadget mentality. We love our gadgets, and they hold a lot of potential for dematerializing our lives, which means a smaller collective carbon footprint and hope for a sustainable future. But that potential only goes as far as we will take it, and from the looks of things, we aren’t wanting to dematerialize and, what’s worse, we aren’t even valuing the stuff that we put up on a pedestal as revolutionary. The iPad underscores all this with Apple reporting over 1 million sales of the first device, the launch of the 3G version which is exactly the same save for 3G connectivity and a higher price tag, and news of people doing everything from microwaving to blending to beating the device with a baseball bat. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Fabricating A Stone"- Holiday House Camouflaged as Big Rock

Roland Halbe via Abitare AntAn GarcAa- Abril and Ensamble Studio have built La Trufa, or truffle, on the north Spanish coast. It is what one might call a solid bit of work, made of concrete in a very unusual fashion. The architect writes in Abitare that “what we had created was not yet architecture, we had fabricated a stone.” But what is most extraordinary was how they did the formwork for the concrete…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vertical Farms Aren’t Going to Solve Our Food Problems

Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC TreeHugger has been dining on vertical farms since Mike first wrote about them back in 2005 . We have not been entirely uncritical of them, even calling them Pie in the Sky . Stan Cox and David Van Tassel go a lot further in an article published in Alternet . They write: “Although the concept has provided opportunities for architecture students and others to create innovative, sometimes beautiful building designs, it holds little practical potential for providing food.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transporting 900 Bananas and a Baby? Five Fab Kid and Cargo Bicycle Combinations

Photo courtesy Taga . Portland, Oregon is becoming a premier location for cargo bike innovation – Clever Cycles blazed this trail in 2007 by starting to import Dutch Bakfiets cargo boxes and other specialty cargo solutions, and Joe-Bike and Metrofiets are taking a lead in handmade custom-built cargo bikes. There’s so much happening that it can be a little daunting for the uninitiated. If you already know that you’ll want to haul kids and cargo on a utility bike but have a low threshold for tech talk, how do you figure out what works? Mostly by test driving – it turns out that choosing a cargo bike and kid hauler is a personal affair. Click forward to read about five fabulous kid and cargo utility bikes at a variety of price points, to get your wheels turning…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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University of Virginia Athletics student death

Police Chief Tim Longo said officers were called to the apartment of Yeardley Love, on 14th Street in Charlottesville, Monday morning at around 2:15 a.m. for what they thought was an alcohol overdose. They say Love shared the apartment with two roommates and one of them called 9-1-1 after finding her unresponsive. Neither had been home prior to making the discovery. In a news conference Monday, Charlottesville police released new information about the murder of a 22-year old University of Virgi

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True Love During the Times Square Bomb Scare

Apparently not all of us in New York were on edge last night upon the discovery of a car bomb in the Times Square area . Some were trying to use it to get laid on Craigslist! View

NASA Discovery Space Shuttle Landed Back To Earth

With favorable weather today, Discover, the NASA space shuttle has returned and landed to Earth smoothly this morning Discovery was a day late due to the cloudy weather last Monday. It came from a 15-day mission at the space station, delivering more than delivered more than 17,000 pounds of gear and equipment. NASA Discovery Space Shuttle Landed Back To Earth is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading