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"Biggest Looser" Winner Joins TreeHugger For Climate Ride Bike Trip

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos via NBC When you loose 215 pounds, you don’t want those pounds creeping back. A good way to maintain: bike 320 miles in five days. On season 9 of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” Koli Palu sweated and dieted off a total of 215 pounds finishing at 188 (loosing 53.35 percent of his body weight!) and winning the $100,000 prize. Arguably now one of America’s most famous successful examples of drastic weight loss, Palu will join me for Brita Climate Ride , which starts bright and early tomorrow, September 21 in Eureka, California…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Paper-To-Pencil Machine Repurposes Printed Pages

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via Yanko Design For all the offices trying to go green by minimizing paper use, there are still those that have a pile of wasted print-outs in the recycling bin. This concept by designers Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen takes old office paper and spits out whole pencils. And interesting idea for reusing wasted materials, upcycling rather than recycling. But, how many people still use pencils, especially those without erasers? So, is it a good idea, or a waste of energy? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Opossums Enlisted to Eat Rats Now Overrun Brooklyn

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

Photo via djandzoya It seemed like a plan just sinister enough to work: ship in a bunch of rat-eating opossums to combat Brooklyn’s rodent problem . But as opposed of doing their job and dying off as city officials had planned, the opossums proved to be poor rat-killers, preferring instead to settle down in buildings and neighborhood parks. Now community leaders are fed up with the marauding animals rummaging through trashcans, hanging out in yards, and feeding themselves from local

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New York Green Fashion Week: School Girl Charm Meets Downtown Chic in Samantha Pleet Spring 2011 (Slideshow)

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

Samantha Pleet at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Elisa Hyman At New York Green Fashion Week Tuesday night, Samantha Pleet presented a mystical and romantic eco chic collection for Spring 2011. Inspired by French New Wave films and the band Beach House, Samantha’s design aesthetic is rooted in a classic style, with modern appeal. For Spring 2011, the Brooklyn-based designer sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Old Oil Rig Turned Into Scuba Divers’ Dream Hotel

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

The oil-rig-turned-hotel. Photo via Seaventures Dive Resort . This time, it’s for real: The type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico has actually been carried out in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, where an old oil-drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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90 Percent of Monterrey Bay Dolphins Plagued by Mysterious Lesions

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: cheetah100 /Flickr Just as scientists make forward progress towards a cure for the contagious face-eating cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils , an outbreak of mysterious skin lesions has spread through at least on population of bottle-nosed dolphins…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Take Back the Streets! It’s PARK(ing) Day

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A parking spot transformed into a park in Munich. Image Credit: ITDP-Europe via Flickr If you’re ever frustrated by how much urban space is dedicated to cars instead of public use , today is your day. All over the world, citizens, artists and activists are taking part in PARK(ing) Day : taking over metered spaces and transforming them into parks for everyone to enjoy. It all started in 2005, when San Francisco art and design studio Rebar

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Today on Planet 100: Monstrous Hurricane Igor More Like Hurricane Ogre (Video)

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Extraordinary Photos of Commonplace Birds (Slideshow)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Smashing Magazine From forests to deserts, cities to suburbs, the cheerful chirping of backyard birds is a sign that a new day is beginning. Amidst our homes and towns, gardens and lawns, these birds provide a persistent insight into the responsiveness of nature and diversity of wildlife. Though few have an ostrich or bald eagle roaming their neighborhood, everyday birds, though ubiquitous, are truly extraordinary.

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Amsterdam Townhouse Has All The Green Gizmos But Is Gorgeous Too

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photos by I See For You / Föllmi Photography via DailyTonic Suzanne Labarre at CoDesign is “smitten” with FARO Architecten ‘s Woonhuis Weijnen 2.0, a townhouse near Amsterdam. No wonder; it is one of those rare combinations of true green and great design…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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