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Is Hauling Your Own Trash Green?

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: RocketJim54 (Creative Commons) When I took up the rural green life (elitist or not) , there was an inevitable trade-off between bee keeping , large-scale composting , mushroom growing ,

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Adorable Tiger Cub Violates Carry-On Restrictions (Photos)

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: TRAFFIC When security personal at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport scanned a woman’s over-sized carry-on last Sunday, they discovered something unexpected in the x-ray: A live tiger cub . The woman—who has not yet been linked to the UK’s cat-trasher —was carrying the sedated tiger in a suitcase filled with stuffed toy tigers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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39 More Toxic Coal Ash Sites Found to Contaminate US Water Supply With Arsenic & Heavy Metals

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Aerial photo of one of the sites discovered, in Uncasville, Connecticut. A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project , Earthjustice , and the Sierra Club has identified an additional 39 sites in 21 states where toxic coal ash is contaminating drinking and surface water with arsenic and heavy metals. These new sites added to those already identified by… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Research Shows Bleak Future for Life in Acidic Oceans By Century’s End

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Science Daily, Credit University of Plymouth There’s little good news about the ocean these days, unfortunately. We’ve taken it past the point of any sort of speedy recovery, from rising shorelines to over-fished species, from plastic pollution to acidification . And for this last problem, it looks like dire consequences are inevitable within this century, according to new research from the University of Plymouth and the University of Santa Catarina, Braz… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TED TALK – How Cartoonist Jim Toomey Infuses Sketches with Activism

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via TED We’ve featured the work of cartoonist Jim Toomey before. He has a knack for educating readers on the issues surrounding marine litter and ocean pollution without the lecture-y tinge that too often turns people away. But how does he do it, and why? Toomey was on the Mission … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites and Balloons (Slideshow)

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Grassroots Mapping Project, jeferonix /Flickr Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that came after, lessons have been learned—about the

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Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Analysis by Berkeley Lab revealed the dominant microbe in the dispersed Gulf of Mexico oil plume was a new species, closely related to members of Oceanospirillales family. Image: Terry Hazen via Science Daily . In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps deus ex gaia moment, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report that the miles-long deep sea oil plume which resulted from the BP oil spill has essentially vanished, apparently eaten by micro… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Pretty Pollution’ Minnesota Lake Now Pretty For Real

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mary Taffe took these pictures at the same spot in Big Stone Lake last summer (left) and this summer (right). Photos by Taffe via pollutionsolutionanybody . Last year at this time, the part of Big Stone Lake near Mary Taffe’s house was a murky, smelly mess, just as increased factory farming activity in the Minnesota /South D… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EPA Decides To Take e-Waste (Sort of) Seriously. Finally.

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Justin Beck The Environmental Protection Agency has been frustratingly lax on e-waste issues , paying little attention to quality enforcement of policies, or even putting stringent policies in place at all. But finally, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said on Tuesday that e-waste is now one of the top five priorities for the agency. While vague in exactly what the EPA would do to improve the immense problem of e-was… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nearly 80% of Oil From Gulf Spill Remains in Water, Threatens Ecosystem: Independent Analysis

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Tabitha Kaylee Hawk via flickr A new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant contends that the amount of oil remaining in the water in the wake of the Gulf oil spill is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not captured at the wellhead by BP still poses a threat to the ecosystem. That’s 2.9-3.2 million barrels of oil still in the water. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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