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West Virginia Football Uniforms To Honor Coal, Fallen Miners

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

photo via Nike In an attempt to honor the 29 coal miners who tragically died last year at the Upper Big Branch coal mine , the West Virginia University Mountaineers have teamed up with Nike to create new football uniforms that have the mark of coal. The uniforms are white, but have coal dust on the pants and shoulders. The yellow strip on the hemet is said to represent a miner’s headlamp. In the photo featuring the new uniform a player appears to be emerging from a strip mine, leav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elephants: India’s New "National Heritage Animal" To Receive Same Protection As Tigers

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Elephant being bathed in a temple in Thrissur (K.C. Sowmish via The Hindu ) As long-standing icons of its unique cultural psyche, India’s threatened elephants are finally getting the protection — and well-deserved recognition — they need. In a bid for better conservation, earlier this week the Indian government formally declared the elephant its “national heritage animal”, elevating the legendary pachyderm alongside the likes of the majestic tiger, in the hopes of averting a future con… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Inhabitots: 7 Toxic Dangers for Kids

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit: on_ovington + Baby formula could contain unsettling amounts of aluminum &emdash;more than 40 times the amount found in breast milk, according to one recent study. + Another scary side-effect of tainted baby formula: Breasts in female infants . + 85 percent of so-called kid-friendly drinks and snacks could contain

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Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Banksy.co.uk Poor Dolphin World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months . Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Does Morality Matter in Saving the Planet?

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: After Gutenberg When I posted a video of a mainstream farmer trying to green his operations , commenter Adam suggested that he was just doing it for economic reasons. That’s an observation that gets bandied about a lot here at TreeHugger—that this company, or that individual, is not really interested in true sustainability. They are just in it for themselves. I guess the big question is this—does it matter?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Taiji Opens Season on Dolphins Today

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Animal Planet Each year in early September, Japan opens season on dolphins, and today marks the start of the season in Taiji, a now notorious place for slaughtering cetaceans thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove . And of course, activist Ric O’Barry is on the move. He delivered a petition to the US Embassy in Tokyo signed by 1.7 million people from 155 countries demanding an end to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Units

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

images from Bustler The HP Skyline 2020 competition “outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions” and “allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Golf Course is an Environmental Hole in One (Video)

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Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“We all live downstream from one another,” says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She’s the host of Planet Green’s Blue August , is currently traveling the world as a documentarian with her organization Blue Legacy , and, when she has a spare moment, does things like c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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