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Hyper-Invasive Kudzu Worsens Ozone Levels, Air Pollution

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Donna Sullivan-Thomson via flickr Just as much of the US east of Appalachia is in the midst of a serious heat wave comes word that kudzu –that hyper-invasive vine that can grow up to seven feet a week and will cover everything in its path–contributes to the production of ozone. At its worst it can help create seven more days a year when ozone levels exceed air pollution limits. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Plant a Tree With Linkin Park and Green Music Challenge, and You Could Win an an iPad

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book / courtesy TreeLink . Why should you plant trees? For shade and oxygen? Right, but there’s tons of other things (like the tons of sequestered carbon) to keep in mind. And if these factoids to follow aren’t convincing enough, how about the chance to win an Apple iPad, along with a selection from the Warner Music Group?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Endless Urban Forest Made with Mirrors and a Single Tree

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit Pieter Kers, via Gizmodo In the middle of a city, finding a semblance of the wilderness is tough to do. Sitting yourself in a park is about the closest you can get. But DUS Architects have come up with a way for you to trick yourself into thinking you’re in a forest with no beginning and no end, using strategically placed mirrors and a single tree. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Beetle-Inspired Dew Bank Concept Draws Water From Desert Air

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Yanko Design Finding water where there isn’t any is inspiration for a whole range of water-gathering concept designs. But it seems one of the best places to start for coming up with a winning concept is to mimic the plants and animals that can survive desert environments, such as, perhaps, the onymacris unguicularis or “fog-basking” beetle. It has developed a way to gather water that designer Kitae Pak saw was a perfect strategy to mimic with a water bottle design. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: A Declaration of Interdependence

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Steve McCallion, executive creative director at design and innovation consultancy Ziba Design, writes in Fast Company Design: America has mortgaged its future to maintain the symbols of personal freedom (the house, the car, the big screen TV) at the expense of real freedom. We owe China almost one trillion dollars; our public education system is approaching collapse; and, we rank number one globally for… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vegetable Patches at Work are a Nice Perk

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image from Grand Rapids Press Some big companies with land to spare are providing vegetable patches for their employees to work on during their breaks and during lunch. It’s a nice perk, though a raise might be nicer, and it certainly is good for morale. In California Google and Yahoo have had organic gardens for a while. But more traditional companies have started to join the trend. Employees get to take home the fresh produce and in some c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prominent Green Activists Ask Obama To Step Up Climate Efforts Now

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

photo via flickr On Friday, notable environmentalists Al Gore, Fredd Krupp, and others sent a letter to President Obama warning him that time is running short this year to pass a bill that caps carbon pollution and asking him to personally intervene in the sausage making process to help get something done. The Senate’s leadership has not yet settled on a bill to get behind, with competing bills looking only at the utility industry, responsible for about 40 percent of US emissions, while others want an economy-wide solution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rainforest Clearing Increases Malaria Incidence Rate Forth Eight Percent

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

” An aerial view of a cattle farm in a deforested area of the Amazon close to Maraba, Para. ” Paulo Whitaker/ReutersImage credit: Amazon Rainforest News , via Paulo Whitaker/Reuters Malaria remains a deadly killer in tropical South America, Africa and Asia. Sometimes there are flickers of hope: as with recent reports of success deploying pesticide treated bed nets in equatorial Africa – the nets keep kids from getting bit while they sleep. And there are periodic moments of despair, as when a follow-up vis… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Administration Tries To Keep Up The PACE

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

photo via flickr The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program allows homeowners to finance their own solar panels or energy-savings retrofits by an addition to their property tax bill, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have shut down the program. The Obama administration has tried through the Department of Energy to change the practices of the Federal Housing Finance Agency , which runs Fannie and Freddie, but thus far they have been unsuccessful. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chocri Customized Chocolate Bars: Organic, Fair Trade, Tasty

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

As a dark chocolate fan who happens to be surrounded by some of the tastiest locally made cocoa treats (like Brooklyn’s Mast Brother’s Chocolates )–I wouldn’t often put in an overseas order for German-made bars. I like chocolate but I don’t need a special order of it flown over in a plane. I would however give ’em a taste test were it presented a gratis as happened with an invite from Chocri brand chocolates . (Oh the tough job I have!) They were somewha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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