Loomstate’s Scott Mackinlay Hahn (center) with a five-pocket jean pattern. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times About 15 to 20 percent of fabric used to produce clothing ends up in the nation’s landfills. Pioneers behind zero-waste fashion have a solution: designing clothing patterns that uses every inch of fabric; if it sounds easy, it’s not. The
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Photo via Boston Politico , the right-leaning, beltway-insider political magazine, has run a must-read op-ed by four of the nation’s leading climate scientists . These four scientists have recently testified before Congress about the urgent need to act on climate change, and the piece explains why. Here’s the gist of it: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Climate Scientists Speak Out: "The Urgent Need to Act Cannot be Overstated"
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Image via Ecouterre . Come September, one of the largest textile recycling initiatives in the nation will launch in New York City, the Associated Press reports (via Ecouterre ). In 2008, over 190,0… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In New York City, Clothing Recycling Program Could Spur Nationwide Movement
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Photo via SMH It’s a topic that sparks heated debate, and one that we’ve tackled here before: Should corporations be allowed to market unhealthy food to children? When a county in California banned McDonald’s Happy Meals , it caused a veritable uproar. Happy Meals, are one of the most cannily marketed kids’ products — yet many feel that it’s the parents’ role to decide what to let their kids eat, regardless. So I’m curious to see how the nation will take the news that market… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Marketing Junk Food to Kids Could Soon be Illegal
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Today on Planet 100: Planet BP Scam (Video)
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The President will address the nation from the Oval Office tonight. His topic will be the seemingly unending oil spill that is devastating the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama was on the Gulf Coast yesterday to see the damage first hand, and he's invited BP CEO Tony Hayward to speak with him at the White House. Amid accusations that the President, the White House or the government at large have not done enough to battle the oil spill – what do you want to hear from the President tonight? More about the speech: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/06/obama-oval-office-g… added by: afitzgerald
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South Africa brimmed with pride and anticipation Thursday on the eve of the first World Cup on African soil as the nation’s icon Nelson Mandela said the tournament would bridge racial divides.
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Photo via Sulekha Temperatures Could Rise to 122 F India is currently facing the hottest season ever recorded in the nation — the hottest since record keeping began in the late 1800s. And the heat has been disastrous: Hundreds of people have died already, and many more are seriously ill. Hospitals in one region in the north have been receiving 300 people a day. And it looks like it’s going to get worse…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hundreds Die in Heatwave as India has Hottest Summer on Record
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Filed under: Politix TMZ applauds Congressman Tim Johnson (R-IL) for voting to freeze congressional pay raises — but we speak for the nation when we say … sir, take the money, buy a comb.
Tyler Perry returned to his message board Tuesday to thank his fans for making Why Did I Get Married Too? the nation’s second highest-grossing film of Easter weekend — a distant second, alas, behind Clash of the Titans . It wasn’t supposed to go that way, of course; Married once upon a time had April 2 all to itself (despite formidable-ish competition Miley Cyrus) before Warners required an extra week to release the Kraken in underwhelming 3D. That move ended Perry’s No. 1-opening streak at two films, thus prompting the mogul to passive-aggressively contemplate what could have been.
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