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No Sharks Were Harmed In New Addition to Discovery Headquarters

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All photos credit David DeFranza Discovery Headquarters (Parent to TreeHugger) is already LEED Platinum for its operations, with extensive recycling and water reduction programs. Now they have a new addition to the building, and are no doubt going for shark-safe certification. We are told that it is made from 11,720 yards of fabric and that each piece took 1280 person-hours to sew. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Michelle Obama Urged to Take Meat "Unfit for KFC" Out of School Lunch

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Vegan Peace & The White House Organic Farm Project Michelle Obama may have won the hearts of locavores everywhere with her expansion of the White House organic garden , her campaign against obesity , and even bringing bees into the White House… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cute Animation Explains Why Smarter Water Use Is… Smart (Video)

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Smarter Planet It might seem obvious that we need to be more intelligent with our water use. So obvious that the smart water technologies market is projected to be a $16.3 billion industry by 2020 . But what does smartening up our water systems entail? This great little video explains just how we’re being dumb with our water, why we need to smarten up, and some savvy areas where we can get started making changes. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Don’t Eat Food That Doesn’t Rot – Michael Pollan’s Food Rules (Book review)

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Michael Pollan travelled to London this week to dish up his latest nourishing read, Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual. This collection of home spun dietary advice, that was previewed in the New York Times last year, has now been published in the UK by Penguin. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday Pollan put forward the case that actually, with or without the increasingly prescriptive advice… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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864,000 pounds of US ground beef recalled

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Some 864,000 pounds (390 tonnes) of ground beef produced by a California meat packer is being recalled for fear of potentially deadly E.coli bacterium tainting, U.S. officials said on Monday. The beef was produced by Huntington Meat Packing Inc of Montebello, California, and shipped mainly to California outlets, the U.S.

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