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How To End The War On The Car: Recognize It Is A Win-Win Situation

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How To End The War On The Car: Recognize It Is A Win-Win Situation

In Toronto , the new Mayor thinks roads belong to trucks and cars , and thinks bike lanes slow them down. He calls bike lanes and streetcars a “war on the car.” In fact, there is some evidence of exactly the opposite; in many cases, a person on a bike might otherwise be taking up road space in a car. In New York , the investment in bike lanes has resulted in a 13% increase in usage last year, and an 88% increase in the last three years. According to

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Meat-Clad Fashion Icon Lady Gaga Aspires To Be A Teacher!

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

The ultimate fashionista of the decade, the eccentric singer LADY GaGa has applied for a job as a teacher! The meaty-fashion icon,Gaga,who always surprises everyone with her fashion sense has reportedly decided she’s desperate to teach fashion and art appreciation at a prestigious New York City university. “She wants to be a college lecturer and Meat-Clad Fashion Icon Lady Gaga Aspires To Be A Teacher! is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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Rockefeller Center Officiates its Annual Christmas Tree Lighting

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

At the eve before the calendar turns to December, the famous New York skyscraper,Rockefeller Center was filled with Christmas feeling- the giant gleaming tree, the twinkling lights, the holiday music, the ice skating — and of course, the tourists. The Rockefeller Center,with its annual lighting of Christmas tree tonight is the main attraction for the Rockefeller Center Officiates its Annual Christmas Tree Lighting is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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Rapping Doctor Takes On Speeding New Yorkers

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Rapping Doctor Takes On Speeding New Yorkers

Yes, speed kills , and yes, we’ve heard it all before. But have we heard that excessive speed causes more deadly car crashes in New York than distracted driving and drunken driving….combined? And have we had the message delivered by a white-coated rapping… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Shia LaBeouf’s Bad Recycling Habits, Moby’s Woodstock Performance, and More

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Shia LaBeouf’s Bad Recycling Habits, Moby’s Woodstock Performance, and More

Photo via nicogenin @ Flickr Actor Shia LaBeouf has plenty of big-time films under his belt — Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , the upcoming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — and he’s an advocate for children’s programs, voting, and the United States Veterans Initiative, but there’s one role he hasn’t perfected yet: environmentalist…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Samantha Pleet, Bahar Shahpar, and More Design ‘Little Newspaper Dress’ for Charity (Photos)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Samantha Pleet, Bahar Shahpar, and More Design ‘Little Newspaper Dress’ for Charity (Photos)

Bahar Shahpar’s newspaper yarn dress at the ‘Do-Gooder Design Challenge.’ Image courtesy of Yesterday’s News . Fashion designers don’t hesitate when it comes to making a statement in recycled fashion: From Gary Harvey’s ‘Financial Times’ dress to Project Runway winning designer Irina Shabayeva’s newspaper coat , the little newspaper dress–or LNS, for short–is a popular trend in sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York City to Ban Smoking in Parks & Beaches

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via City Room New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has just acted to extend the ban on smoking in restaurants and bars to two other highly trafficked destinations: parks and beaches. He cites the adverse health effects of second-hand smoke as a primary reason for the extension, but there are certainly plenty of environmentally motivated justifications as well — the impact of cigarette butt waste on habitats, especially marine… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Counter Space: How The Modern Kitchen Evolved

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Snaidero folding kitchen, 1968 Suzanne Labarre of Fast Company’s Co.Design writes a wonderful article about the new show opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York: Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen . The show traces the development of the kitchen as a modern, efficient “domestic conveyor belt” post WW1, into the modern age where “kitchens kept expanding — and so did the amount of junk inside them. New products were supposed to make life easier on housewives, but… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Objects to Its Airlines Having to Pay For Their Pollution in EU Emission Trading Scheme

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Josh Beasley via flickr This one’s been inbound for a couple of years now, the United States objecting to the European Union’s plans to make foreign airlines start paying for the carbon emissionsM from landing and taking off there from 2012, but as the New York Times reports, the US is upping the pres… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fight for Your Right to Drink Bottled Water (Video)

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Life Dynamix There’s (thankfully) been a lot of attention focused lately on the behind-the-scenes influence of corporations on public policy and opinion — see Jane Mayer’s great expose of the extremely powerful billionaire Koch brothers for a good example. Over the last year we’ve seen corporations sponsor “grassroots” movements fighting health care reform, the oil industry back anti-climate legislation

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