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Is This the Worst Oil Advertisement Ever?

Image via The Sierra Club Throughout the Gulf oil spill , BP pulled out all the stops to try and save their image — with a slurry of off-the-mark television advertisements airing across the United States. Still, their pricey PR campaign couldn’t come close to the impact felt after seeing the

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Timberland Kicks Plastic Bottles Into their Boots, Says ‘Nature Needs Heroes’

Timberland’s Earthkeeper boots use one and a half plastic bottles in each pair. Image courtesy of Timberland. Timberland ‘s latest marketing campaign for their Earthkeepers footwear collection , which uses recycled rubber and recycled PET (one and a half plastic bottles are used in each pair of Earthkeepers™ boots), asks consumers to consider how they can be “heroes” for the great outdoors–hence it’s name: “Nature Needs Heroes.” To kick off the campaign and showc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC Grad Students Reimagine Disaster Relief (Photos)

All Images Courtesy of Pratt Institute At an exhibition at the Pratt Insitute’s Brooklyn Campus last Thursday, two graduate industrial design students presented to the public their ambitious idea for revolutionizing disaster relief efforts worldwide. The students, Mike Seto and David Kim, focused on the recovery stage of relief, rather than the immediate post-disaster response, and the result is (project) PL : a way to provide disaster victims with communal, transportable, a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Widespread on British Farms

photo: Sara Novak At first these salmonella and e coli superbugs were found at a handful of British farms, but according to the Soil Association , the nearly untreatable superbugs are running rampant across the country. Find out what’s causing the frightening outbreak…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Celebrating Safer Cycling in Prague

Posters advertising the Critical Mass events in Prague. Images via Auto*Mat . Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was “only for the brave,” as an article for Radio Prague put it a few years ago. Since then, new bike lanes have been built, bike maps created, and the city has become safer for cyclists — a development being c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bleaching & Death

Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports , there’s another vict… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Carbon Emissions Reporting Where It Belongs: With Global Financial Accountants

Energy stock performance snapshot. Image credit: Google Finance Pablo recently filled us in on the abrupt end of the Climate Leaders voluntary carbon reporting program . (Eight years with a relatively small group of industries was enough.) In parallel, a group of US states worked up a carbon reporting protocol as well; and, there are several NGO and government-led carbon reporting protoc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exclusive: Ocean Activist Roz Savage to Row Across Indian Ocean

Photo via Roz Savage, Credit Phil Uhl “It really does come down to one stroke at a time:” This is what ocean activist Roz Savage told the 100 riders gathered to listen to her speak on day two of Brita Climate Ride — the 320-mile climate awareness bike trip that started in Eureka, California on Tuesday. Savage, living up to her last name, intends to keep on stroking. In 2011, she will set off once again in he… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nissan Stops Taking LEAF Reservations, Reaches 20k Target 3 Months Ahead of Schedule

Photo: Flickr , CC Smells Like Success Let’s play “good news, bad news”! The good news is that the electric LEAF seems to be very hot. Nissan was expected to reach 20,000 reservations around the time of launch in December, but interest has been so high that they’ve reached that milestone 3 months in advance. The bad news is that if you are interested in getting a Nissan LEAF but were indecisive about reserving one, it’s now too late. Nissan won’t take any new reservations for the LEAF until 2011…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Kevin Rudd: 3 Good Things Came Out of Copenhagen (Video)

Unless you’re a climate policy wonk or a close follower of all things global warming, here’s what you probably remember about Copenhagen: It sucked. It was a failure. Crash and Burn. In reality, it wasn’t the absolute loss that many perceive and still others claim it to be. At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, former Prime Minister (and current Foreign Minister) of Australia Kevin Rudd articulated exactly this sentiment. And it’s a useful one to keep in mind, if only to remember that tangible progress is indeed being made to address climate change on an international level, despite what media narrative-seekers would have you bel… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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