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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Celebrity Eco Dads (Video)
Collin is convinced that dishwashers are greener than handwashing , but I am not so sure; one or two people can take a long time to fill one up, and his calculations don’t take into account the embodied energy making the dishwasher, the space it takes up and the cost of buying and maintaining the thing. We have a Bosche that needs a $500 repair and are washing by hand these days, and I have found that the standard dishrack could use a bit of a redesign.

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Reinventing the Dish and the Drainboard to Make Dishwashing Easier
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As BP’s Gulf oil spill continues to spew, the internet has helped showcase some of the more interesting ways an oil spill can be cleaned up. For example, a pac-man-esque oil recovery vessel and Kevin Costner’s machine that can separate oil and water–BP just ordered 32! The Upright Citizens Brigade explores what happens when BP spills coffee and the video is pretty hilarious (unlike the actual spill in the Gulf of Mexico). And in other green news, VW has just unveiled the new 2011 Jetta with a hybrid model coming in 2012; A new study estimates a carbon footprint of 2,753,251 tons of CO2 from the 2010 World Cup; and NASA says that the Moon may have more water th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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XPO – BJARKE BIKES THROUGH DANISH PAVILION from BIG on Vimeo . I… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Riding a Bike in the Danish Pavilion, Shanghai: Looks Like Fun
Last May marked the debut of the “Wild Wonders of Europe Outdoor Exhibition” in the Hague, Netherlands. An epic conservation initiative and photographic celebration of the natural beauty across 48 European countries, the exhibition consists of a sampling of 100 out of the thousands of spectacular photos collected by 69 of Europe’s top nature photographers. If you have enjoyed the monthly slideshow featuring photos from Wild Wonders of Europe including In Stun… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spectacular European Wildlife Photos From Traveling Exhibit (Slideshow)

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BP CEO Testifies Before Congress (Live)
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Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when cutting and processing the stones. Nutcreatives , a Spanish design studio, have solved the latter problem locally, killing two birds with one stone. The solution? -A bench called Relaja , which means ‘relax’ in Spanish…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Relaja, a Locally Produced Bench Made from Recycled Marble from the Canary Islands
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Image credit: Methodhome.com The wisdom of crowds is urgently needed in assessing the greenness of products and companies. Today, if you want to validate the social and environmental quality of a product or company, you have a plethora of choices—all with their distinct limitations, and with the result that consumers remain as confused as ever when trying to identify more sustainable products. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Let the Crowds Determine Green Ratings
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According to the SeattlePI, there is a pedestrian overpass over Seattle’s Martin Luther King Way. Looking at Google Street View , it looks like one of the usual ones put up to make pedestrians climb two flights of stairs so that cars don’t have to slow down. Nobody uses these things. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Officer Punches Teenager in Face Over Jaywalking
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