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Deconstructing the Twinkie

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

Image credit: Good The Twinkie is, perhaps, the most iconic highly-processed snack food American culinary ingenuity has ever devised. Originally invented in the 1930s as a means to utilize strawberry shortcake cream-filling machines when strawberries were out of season, the “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling” is now an entity all its own—one that photographer Dwight Eschliman has broken down into an elemental 37 or so Ingredients …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Louisiana Senator: Crank Up The Offshore Drilling Rigs Now! (Video)

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

photo via flickr Sen. Mary Landrieu went on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today to advocate for lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf, this despite the fact that worst oil spill in American history continues. Landrieu, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industry over her career, said that the oil companies “employ, directly, hundreds of people and indirectly thousands.” The BP oil rig disaster killed 11 rig workers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Happens When BP Spills Coffee? (Video)

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

“Don’t worry, it’s a small spill on a very large table” Okay, I don’t want to spoil this one, so the less said, the better. All I can say is that it’s pretty hilarious (unlike the actual spill in the Gulf of Mexico). Nice work, Upright Citizens Briga… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Sushi Nazi (Video)

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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder

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Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It’s hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Avoid "Generation Zero" – Build an Ocean Recovery Alliance

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via The Plastiki Guest post by Doug Woodring, Co-Founder/Director of Project Kaisei The state of our ocean today is a perfect example of tragedy of the commons. We all use and take from the sea, but the majority of it is not “owned” or governed by any one country, much like the air we breathe, having no borders. As groups like Plastiki and Project Kaisei draw attention to the plight of the ocean, and the amount of waste in the

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Today on Planet 100: Frozen Zoo (Video)

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The Greenest Brick: City Votes to Demolish Entire Street of 41 Historic Buildings

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Terrific illustration from the National Post We do go on about how The Greenest Brick is the One Already in the Wall , how old buildings have embodied energy, how renovation creates more jobs than new construction, and how

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Charge Your Gadgets With Your Boots? Orange Unveils Power-Generating Wellies

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Orange Orange and GotWind is a partnership known for coming up with some interesting new ways of generating power for off-grid charging. They’ve created everything from solar- and wind-powered tents to foot pumps . But now they want to attach that foot-powered action to boots themse… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Orangutans in Zoos Enjoy Watching You, Too

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

Photo via Ruth Flickr There’s nothing quite like a visit to the zoo for catching a glimpse of some of the world’s most fascinating animals –but, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones who enjoy a little interspecies gawking. Researchers from Australia’s

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