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Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Captivity

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

Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature As far as endangered species go, it’s mostly bad news , with the occasional positive story . Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of the rarest animals on the planet. The Bolikhamxay Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office, advised by the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Lao Programme of the Wildlife Conservation Societ… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian National Zoo

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

Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you’ve been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they’ve been working on the first stage of their “Elephant Trails” project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habitats for the zoo’s Asian elephants that will allow the endangered animals to thrive. Phase I, which opened to the public yesterday, includes two new outdoor yards and an elephant barn, which is

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Big Bambú: A Cresting Wave Hits New York City

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

Image Credit: Nucho via Flickr Bamboo gets used in a lot of ways, from underwear to flooring to windmills . But this summer, the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to a forest of bamboo that is an aesthetic end in itself. Since April, artists

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Lake Mead At Lowest Level Since 1956: Water Users Conserving, Hoping For Rain Next Year

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

” The Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead (left photo accented by a rainbow) in 1983, the year its highest water elevation is recorded. By 2009 (right), Lake Mead’s water-elevation level has dramatically declined, revealing the chalky-white structure of Hoover Dam. ” Caption & image credit: Arizona Republic Falling water levels in Arizona’s Lake Mead have Arizona citizens facing an historic turning point, brought on by a 12-year regional drought – effects, as pictured. (Water consumption in the Colorado River wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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As Pepsi’s Refresh Challenge Rolls On, Green Causes Vie for Funding

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: PowerShift 2011 via Refresh Everything In January, we told you about Pepsi’s Refresh Everything initiative, giving away $20 million in grants to individuals, businesses and non-profits that are working for change in six categories: health, arts and culture, food and shelter, the planet, neighborhoods, and education. The grants are awarded by popular vote: ev… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dr. M. A. Sanjayan Looks Forward in Powering the Future

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: DCI Conservation is the main subject of focus for Dr. M. A. Sanjayan , who has co-hosted documentaries for the BBC featured in National Geographic TV , and has published a dense body of work in conservation genetics, conservation planning, wildlife corridors, wildlife sampling, conservation policy, and conservation measures. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spill Some Oil, Vent Some Rage with InstantOilSpill.com

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: InstantOilSpill.com The anger at BP over the past three months has been expressed in a lot of ways: calls to boycott the company into bankruptcy . A competition to redesign BP’s logo . Even a tarring and feathering . Few, however, have been as cathartic as InstantOilSpill.com , whic… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In Toronto, a Backyard Transformed into an Urban Farm

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: Vidafine via Flickr In New York, a group of twenty-somethings who live together make up a hit sitcom. In Toronto, they make up Trinity Reach Farm . Let’s call it The One Where the Gang Makes Their Backyard into an Urban Farm. An urban farm where they raise chickens, grow herbs and vegetables, smoke fish and meat, make cheese and brew beer and cider. Trinity Reach Farm, recently profiled by Vidafine , was founded in the spring of 2009 b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Three Weeks In, Minneapolis’ Bike Share Program Is a Real Nice Ride

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

Image Credit: tsuacctnt via Flickr To the growing list of major cities with bike share programs we now add Minneapolis. Recently named America’s most bike-friendly city , Minneapolis joined the ranks of Paris, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C. and others earlier this month with the opening of Nice Ride Minnesota . With 1,000 bikes in 60 kiosks around the city, Nice Ride is living up to its name. The sleek green bikes hav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brooklyn Botanical Garden Celebrates its Centennial with a Bee-Day Party

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: Brooklyn Botanical Garden The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is turning 100 tomorrow, and you’re invited to a day of music, dance, films and education, all about one of our favorite populations…bees! The free, day-long event is not only a celebration of the research and service of the BBG, but also an effort to educate the public about the challenges facing bees globally, most importantly colony collapse disorder and

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