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‘Top Kill’ Attempt to Plug Oil Leak is Working, Says Coast Guard Admiral [Updated]

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

BP’s robots are inspecting the well-head to see if the top kill succeeded. Image: BP It’s Working So Far, But Not Over Yet U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told the media this morning that BP’s “top kill” effort that started yesterday ( after many delays ) has “stabilised the wellhead” and that pressure coming from the well is now “very low”, but further efforts will be required to reduce the pressure to zero and seal the well with cement. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Colombia to Elect World’s First Green Party President

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Colombia Reports Many nations have Green Parties, but many voters from those nations couldn’t even name a Green Party leader if you asked them to. Quick, who was the United States’ Green Party presidential candidate in 2008? Even if you said Ralph Nader, you’d be wrong — he ran for president as an independent. The Green candidate would be Cynthia McKinney, a congresswoman from Georgia. Point is, many Green Parties don’t tend to get a lot of love, even as the green movement continues to grow. Which is why it’s a pleasant surprise that Colombia is about to elect the world’s first p… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Doodle 4 Google National Winner 2010 Wants to Save the Rainforest

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The winning Doodle 4 Google drawing by Makenzie Melton, Age 9, Grade 3. A Green Doodle 4 Google Wins! Every year, Google holds a competition for kids. The winner gets to have its drawing of the Google logo seen by hundreds of millions of people on the search giant’s homepage. The Doodle 4 Google (aka Doodle4Google) competition is open to all students in U.S. schools from kindergarten to grade 12, including homeschoolers, and this year’s winner has been announced: It’s Makenzie Melton, age 9, from El Dorado Springs, Missouri. Her drawing shows the Google logo in the rainforest, a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Spill in the Mangroves Is a Disgusting, Sticky Mess (Exclusive Photos + Video)

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

No joke, this is Philippe dipping his hand into oil on a Louisiana beach. All photos and video courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. Guest blogger Philippe Cousteau is chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green , and will host the network’s forthcoming Blue August programming. He is reporting from the Gulf oil spill in Louisiana. Grand Isle, Louisiana – May 25, 2010 Another early morning, all the more early because we didn’t stop work till 2 a.m. last night. Today we head off … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Goes For Extra Hurricane Point: 22 Mile Long Plume Moving Toward Alabama

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Image credit: FamilyHomeSecurity.com British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as “dispersed” beneath the ocean’s surface, stretching from the wellhead, to Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron : “The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters), and is more than 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school.” We now face the prospect of a tropica… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rush Limbaugh on the BP Oil Spill: "It’s as natural as the ocean water is."

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos: Public domain Quick Limbaugh Debunking Some claims are so crazy that you shouldn’t even have to point out why they don’t make sense. But when these claims are made by people with a large number of followers ready to believe anything the guru says (such as that the Deepwater Horizon explosion could be an act of eco-terrorism; as if it’s easy to get on board an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and make it blow up without being seen by any of the 100+ people on it), they’re worth a closer look. The latest outrageous claim by Rush Limbaugh is about the oil spill, and it’s worth a quick debunking. Read on for the details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Madness: BP Left Off Second Emergency Cutoff + When Do We Say ‘Enough’?

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Map of potential spill trajectory over the next few days: NOAA It just keeps going and going. New revelations about how little it would have cost to prevent the BP oil spill (only slightly exaggerating, half a million dollars for a part to the oil industry is like a couple nice dinners out to you or me), new worst-case scenarios about how long this could continue on, and (thankfully) some particularly poignant thoughts to counterbalance the mindless damage control by the chattering right wing pundits. Here’s some of the best and worst of an increasingly bad situation:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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No More Baptisms in the Jordan River – Expected to Run Dry by 2011

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Abouid Even the most famous and admired places aren’t immune to the problems of abuse and pollution – the Jordan River being a prime example as it’s expected to run dry by 2011 due to overexploitation, pollution and lack of regional management, according to Friends of the Earth, Middle East . Over 90% of the river’s water has been diverted by Israel, Syria and Jordan, and what’s left is an unappealing mix of sewage, saline water, and run-off from cropland. And by the end of 2011, there won’t even be that left. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Eyes On: A Visit to a Zero Landfill Subaru Plant

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Subaru . Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. There is a Subaru plant along a stretch of I-65 that you can’t miss if you happen to find yourself about an hour north of Indianapolis, traveling toward Chicago. It’s a 2.9 million square foot facility (with 3.4 million usable square feet including a second floor) that covers over 70 football fields. It’s big, but I can’t say that this particular plant looks all that different than any other from the outside. But get inside (they offer a 90 minute tour) and you’ll learn that not only was it the first auto assembly plant in the U.S. to achieve zero-landfill status , but they took that to heart and have gone a lot further. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If Your City Were Perfect, What Would It Look Like? Build It with IBM’s CityOne Game (Video)

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Screengrab via IBM video If you were given total control of your city and could plan exactly how it was set up from the structures to the water management to the banking industry, how would you lay it out? IBM created a SimCity-like game called CityOne in which you can design the ideal city. The assumption is they want to mine people’s minds for the best ideas that we can implement to improve our real cities, and see what we can salvage from our terrible urban planning efforts. Check out a video of the game after the jump and see if you want to add in your two cents about how bike lanes should be set up, and if we should be running off nuclear or wind energy. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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