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Modo Breaks Out New, 95% Recycled Eyewear. But Are We Impressed?

Image Credit: Earth Conscious Optics Eyewear company Modo is looking to make a big splash with its new line of green eyeglasses, called ECO- Earth Conscious Optics . For around $130, you can look good and feel better, knowing that your designer eye wear is made from at least 95- if not 100- percent recycled stainless steel and repurposed plastic. Modo is touting the new line as “a radically new approach to eyewear,” which “reinterprets the whole product lifecycle in an environmentally sustainable way.” But they’re certainly

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American Idol: The Last Two People On Earth [Recaps]

Well, that was that. The last time that an American Idol Season 9 contestant will sing for sweet, sweet survival votes. How do you feel? Sad? Happy? Relieved? Drunk? Mostly I feel all those things. Come, let’s discuss. More

10 Shocking Facts About The Unprecedented Environmental Horror In The Gulf Of Mexico

More than a month after it began, oil continues to gush rapidly into the Gulf of Mexico from a damaged BP oil well. The environmental damage from this oil spill is going to be absolutely unprecedented in U.S. history. In fact, it is now becoming apparent that the region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico may not recover from this environmental horror in our lifetimes. Yes, that is how bad it really is. The facts about this oil spill that you are about to read below are absolutely going to stun you. But the links are all there so you can go check out the information for yourself. As Americans, we like to talk a good game about how we want to save the environment, but the truth is that we are doing more to harm the environment than anyone else. It is time to take responsibility for our actions, because the earth is going to become one gigantic trash heap if we are not careful. added by: Revelation1217

Jake Abel Joins ‘I Am Number Four’ Cast

‘Every day has been nothing but eating and lifting weights,’ the ‘Percy Jackson’ actor says of preparing to play a quarterback. By Josh Wigler Jake Abel Photo: Amy Graves/ Getty Images “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” actor Jake Abel has joined the cast of “I Am Number Four,” director D.J. Caruso’s adaptation of James Frey and Jobie Hughes’ forthcoming science-fiction novel of the same name, MTV News has learned exclusively. The sci-fi story focuses on nine aliens who survive the destruction of their home world at the hands of a ruthless rival species. The survivors flee to Earth and blend into their human surroundings in order to hide from the aliens who continue to hunt them. Abel will play Mark James, a high school football player who sees a social threat in Number Four, the young protagonist and new kid in school played by “Beastly” actor Alex Pettyfer. “Mark is a football player at the school and he’s skeptical of the new kid because he’s trying to move in on his ex-girlfriend,” Abel told MTV News in an exclusive interview. “He’s the high school jock who’s just loaded with insecurities. He masks them with his bravado and intimidation, but he’s threatened because this new kid is coming to school and there’s a lot of attention on him. A lot is happening around him.” Despite his experience as the villainous Luke Castellan in “Percy Jackson,” Abel’s antagonizing ways won’t intersect too heavily with the overarching sci-fi story of “I Am Number Four.” “Unfortunately, I’m not really getting involved with all of the crazy sci-fi stuff,” said the actor. “In a previous draft, there was a big fight scene that Mark was a part of and I was stoked for it. It was so wicked. Then I got a new rewrite, and suddenly Mark wasn’t in a fight anymore. I was really kind of bummed by that. It would have been a lot of fun!” That doesn’t mean Abel isn’t getting physical for the role. The actor revealed that he’s currently on a rigorous workout campaign to get into the kind of shape his football-playing character should be in. “Kind of at the last minute, D.J. Caruso reached out to me and said, ‘I want you to get big.’ So now they’ve got me [working with] a trainer, and now every day has been nothing but eating and lifting weights,” he laughed. “Luckily, he’s a quarterback, so he doesn’t have to be huge!” He’ll have to get into that idealized shape quickly, as Abel said he begins filming his role on June 9. Asked what he found the most appealing about “I Am Number Four,” the actor revealed: “What attracted me to it was D.J. Caruso, hands down. That’s what really made me want to do this. I think he’s really talented and has potential to be phenomenal. When we did the reading process for the audition, the notes that he gave me, we kind of spoke the same language. I’m really excited to see how he handles the situation on set.” Abel joins a growing cast, including the previously mentioned Pettyfer as Number Four, Timothy Olyphant as his guardian Henri, Teresa Palmer as the alluring Number Six and Kevin Durand as an alien antagonist. For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .

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Barbarella Lives ! ( on film,..and in our hearts )

—Jane Fonda • Barbarella • Sci-Fi film by Roger Vadim 1968 Barbarella is a 1968 science fiction film based on the French Barbarella comics created by Jean-Claude Forest. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and stars Jane Fonda, who was Vadim's wife at the time. In the 40th century, Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is assigned by the President of Earth (Claude Dauphin) to retrieve Doctor Durand-Durand (Milo O'Shea) from the planet SoGo in order to save the earth. On her quest, Barbarella is seduced by a resident of SoGo (Ugo Tognazzi as Mark Hand), who introduces her to penetrative intercourse, something she is unaware of, since civilized people of Barbarella's society find their sexual release through pharmaceuticals. In turn, she seduces an angel named Pygar (John Phillip Law), and overloads a torture device called the Excessive (or “Ex-sex-sive”) Machine, which kills through sexual pleasure. More–WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_ (film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_ (comics) PHOTO GALLERY—- http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/x-jane-fonda/index.htm http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/x-jane-fonda/x-jane-fonda-barbarella… added by: remanns

Kiss Announces New North America ‘Hottest Show on Earth’ Tour Dates

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Legendary rockers Kiss are bringing their “Hottest Show on Earth” tour back to North America. The band will return to U.S. arenas and amphitheaters this summer, beginning with a July 23 date at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming. read more

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Straw (and Hemp) House Survives the Test of Hurricane-force Winds

Prefab wood panels filled with the straw bales formed the frame of the house. Called Modcell, it's a wall and roof cladding system that uses straw bale and hemp. The walls are about a foot and a half thick. The team discovered that the heating bills were 80% lower than for houses made of bricks due to the high insulating properties of the panels. Construction had a much lower carbon footprint because of the ease of transport. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/straw-house-built.php added by: JackHerer

Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”. Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4. The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days. Sea Brat 4, on the other hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years. A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America. Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”. Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures. As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service: “The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good.” And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the “biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks to destroy it completely for decades to come. Reports are also coming from the United States that their government is secretly preparing to evacuate tens-of-millions of their citizens from their Gulf of Mexico States should the most dire of these scientific warnings start to come true. To the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible. But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place. www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1374.htm

Watch Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 8 – The Hungry Earth (1)

Watch Doctor Who S5E8: The Hungry Earth (1) It’s now in the year 2015, where the Earth is now hitting back as the most pompous drilling project of all time has now made it deeper inside the Earth’s crust than any one has ever imagine. Now, The Doctor with Rory and Amy has come to a small village where mining is they livelihood and have got themselve inside a confrontation with the dangerous beings from the age of bygone. The new episode of Doctor Who is the TV show’s 8th episode of the 5th season that aired last 05/22/2010 Saturday at 7:00 PM on BBC-1. Watch Doctor Who 5×8

EarthFest Boston 2010 and Schedules

Welcome to the online event in Boston which is the EarthFest Boston 2010 . You can still update the event even if you are not there today through online. This big celebration to include the performance of Collective Soul, Gin Blossoms, Crash Kings, and Marcy Playground. This whole day activity of EarthFest Boston 2010 concert on the Esplanade in Boston hosted by Radio 92.9 and Whole Food Market sponsors the 17th Annual EarthFest. EarthFest Boston 2010 will be held at Hatch Shell on May 22, 2010 in Boston and to be expected as the largest EarthFest free radio station concert that ever held in Boston. And over 100,000 people attending the said event, to include Bostonians and from other States to attend with their relatives. More news, live update in EarthFest Boston 2010, live feed video HERE . EarthFest Boston 2010 and Schedules is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading