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California Senate Hopeful Mocks Climate Change Threat (Video)

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

Photo via Wired California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina is currently the front runner for securing the GOP nomination in the state primary. The former head of Hewlett-Packard is hoping to bolster her conservative cred by attacking longtime incumbent and Democrat Barbara Boxer — for acknowledging that climate change is a national security threat. According to Fiorina’s latest ad, recognizing that global warming is a security issue somehow means that Boxer is soft on terrorism. The ad also displays how poorly Fiorina understands climate change. Watch: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mentos Eruption Powers Vehicle, Freshens Breath

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Mentos … The Freshmaker also could be known as Mentos … The Fuelmaker. You can make a car move with nothing but Coke Zero, Mentos, and some super sudsy science. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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REDD Forest Protection Program Could Threaten Rights of 350 Million People

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photo: Chany Crystal via flickr Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there’s also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of indigenous people as international financiers, corporations and timber companies get involved. Mongabay points out that an alte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)

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Photo by poolie So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris — or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across the globe? Cartoonist Jim Toomey decided to send two of his characters off on an adventure to show you in the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon . The journey starts in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Want to Feel More Alive? Study Shows You Need to Go Outside

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

Photo via cletch We kind of already know this – if not intuitively then through past studies – but a new study has shown that when you spend more time out in nature, you feel more alive . Published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology , the study shows that getting out and communing with nature is better for feeling rejuvenated than reaching for the ever-so-urban cup of coffee. “Nature is fuel for the soul, ” says Ri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The BP Oil Spill Has Folks Singin’ the Blues (Video)

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

With the BP oil leak continuing to threaten the gulf states,

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BP Ups Its PR Response, Goes On TV With Ads

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

photo via flickr BP’s stock prices are tanking and its reputation is shot, but that’s not stopping the oil giant from trying to repair its loses through public relations. Earlier this week, it announced that it would bring in Dick Cheney’s former press secretary Anne Womack-Kolton , and now BP CEO Tony Hayward is starring new in TV ads designed to show contrition for the worst oil gusher in US history. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?

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

Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Gushing Oil Into Atlantic by Summer’s End (Video)

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With every attempt so far to stop the gusher of oil from the Deepwater Horizon failed, the grim news is that it could flow until Ch… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …

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

Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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