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Oil Spill Emotions Captured in Ironic Photo

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

Image: Compliments of Matthew R. Nichols This image sent in by an alert reader captures the oil spill in a nutshell: high emotions provoking outraged action, the BP logo besmirched, and all of us wishing that someone could just phone “Restore America” to make it all right again. But with “Top Kill” dead and “Junk Shot” trashed , this disaster just entered endurance phase. Thanks to Matthew for finding a chuckle in the midst of all the pain. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Smart Fridge is Not Such a Dumb Idea

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

When first looking at Ashley Legg’s proposed Smart Fridge on Yanko I thought it was another bar code scanner thing and was going to repeat “a green sustainable diet doesn’t have bar codes.” But it serves a different purpose: it is “for those who have shunted cooking to a hobby and rely more on designer microwave meals. The idea is to give you a fridge that is intelligent enough to come up with a healthy recipe, depending on what you stock in it. Not only that, it guides you with… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bring Back Home Ec (and Shop Class)

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Marion Nestle (via Apartment Therapy ) quotes a paper by Harvard pediatrician David Ludwig and Tufts professor Alice Lichtenstein that suggests home economic classes be reintroduced to schools. Girls and boys should be taught the basic principles they will need to feed themselves and their families w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wretched Excess Dept: a Lamborghini in the Living Room

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

Koichi Torimura Some people love their cars, so much that they wish they could be in their living room. But what if you have nine of them? Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida had such a client, who also said “Oh, and the living room needs a tall tree.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Architects Design 5 Star Hotel for Insects

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

Images from bdonline : Vertebrate by Metalanguage Design This 5 star hotel for insects sounds better than most of the dumps that I’ve stayed in… Award winning, designed by prestigious architects and a great location in the middle of a park. Where have I gone wrong? The 5 short-listed projects for the Beyond the Hive Competit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spill In ‘Gulf Of BP’ Affecting Virginia Gubernatorial Politics: Where Next?

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Seascape from Virginia Beach VA. Image credit: Destination360.com It’s a third of a continent away but somehow the continuous gusher the Gulf of Mexico – rebranded lately as the ‘ Gulf of BP ‘ – has both Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia whistling lively new political tunes. According to the Baltimore Sun , Democratic Governor “…O’Malley has grown steadily … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Time to Stop Waiting For Others to Teach Our Kids Eco Literacy

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It seems not a day goes by when you hear about school budgets being radically cut, or even closed, and as a result the educational future of our next generation in uncertainty, lacking in depth & breadth. Theater, music, even the always preserved sports are being left to the side, in favor of focusing on how to train good test takers, to better secure funding…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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PepsiCo Using Potatoes to Run UK Chip Factories

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via The Guardian What are potato chips? They’re slices of potatoes with the majority of the water taken out (and in most cases, a lot of oil added in). What happens to all the water – around 80% of a potato? Well, for four potato chip factories in the UK where water is an increasingly significant issue, the water will go straight toward processing the themselves. PepsiCo is planning to take the factories off the water grid entirely, and use the water from the roughly 350,000 tons of potatoes processed each year into products like Walker’s Cr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Largest Source of Wastewater Mercury Pollution: Dentists

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| 1 Comment

Image: Flickr via iLoveMountains.org We all know coal-fired power plants are to blame for a lot of the mercury swimming through our waters . But they’re not the worst, according to the Mercury Policy Project . Do you know what is? The dental industry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Salt Industry Pushes Back Against Controls and Limits

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Salt in a so-called “healthy choice” meal; New York Times graphic Nobody is going to argue with the fact that salt makes food taste better; One reason fast food tastes so good is that yummy combo of too much fat and salt. Everyone from Michelle Obama to Michael Bloomberg are trying to get us to eat less of it, so the salt industry is pushing back, hard. According to Michael Moss in the New York Times , they are using a strategy of “delay and divert” because “they crave salt a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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