Hugh Hefner’s Big Save, Oceana’s Green Heroes, and More
Apr/100
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Photo via donielle @ Flickr
We’ve been following the story of the fight to save Cahuenga Peak–home of the iconic Hollywood sign–for a few months now, ever since the Trust for Public Land called on some famous friends–Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Steven Spielberg, Aileen Getty, The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, and many others–for donations to help buy back the 1…Read the full story on TreeHugger
FBI Investigates Bribery Allegations After Coal Mine Tragedy
Apr/100
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Photo via the Post-Gazette
Surprise, surprise. I have to say that it would have been more unexpected had this not come to light: Massey Energy, the company that owns the Upper Big Branch Mine where 29 coal workers lost their lives, is under investigation for bribing safety inspectors. Very little has been confirmed yet except that the FBI is indeed conducting an investigation, …Read the full story on TreeHugger
NYC: Join Inhabitat at the Hester Street Fair this Weekend!
Apr/100
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HEY GREEN-MINDED NEW YORKERS!
In case you missed it last weekend, the fabulous Hester Street Fair opened last Saturday at Seward Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to huge crowds and much excitement. By all accounts, the fair’s opening weekend was a phenomenal success: bringing in over 11,000 visitors on Saturday alone to mingle, shop, chat, and nibble on tasty treats like handmade popsicles and fancy artisanal corn-nuts. Inhabitat was there to experience this great community event, and we’ll be setting up shop there again this weekend — so come on down and visit us. We hear the weather is going to be gorgeous this weekend (85 degrees both days!), so you have no excuse not to come down – it is going to be great!
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Bottled Air Concept Preps Us for the Apocalypse
Apr/100
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Image via Yanko Design
This might be something the folks on the coast of Louisiana wish were more reality, less concept right about now. It’s bottled fresh air. “Why,” you might ask, “do we need bottled air?” Considering the rate we’re clogging up the atmosphere with pollution, the designers at designaffairs STUDIO are planning for our future, and it seems to include ready access to clean oxygen w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
60% of Americans Live Where Pollution "Reaches Dangerous Levels"
Apr/100
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The effective manner in which the US has dealt with air pollution in cities since the passage of the Clean Air Act is a point of pride for environmentalists as well as legislators. But that’s not to say that pollution doesn’t persist in many parts of the nation — far from it. One recent report found that a staggering 175 million Americans — 6 out of 10 people — live in areas where particulate pollution reaches dangerous levels. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
BP Oil Spill: Videos to Catch Up
Apr/100
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With so much news coverage on the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I thought it would be helpful to compile some of the better video clips from various news outlets. Below you’ll find a growing number of video clips on the BP oil spill. If you have a video you would like to see added to the list, please post a link in the comments below.
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Weed Could Bring Affordable Solar Power Worldwide
Apr/100
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Purple pokeberry power (Photo: Muffet on Flickr)
Never underestimate the power of weeds. Case in point: the common pokeberry weed - whose red dye was once used by American Civil War soldiers to write letters home - may now hold the secret for revolutionizing the next generation of low-cost photovoltaic cells, making widespread, affordable homegrown solar power a real possibility, especially for developing nations.
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Green:Net 2010 - Turning Atoms into Bits: Using Computing to Cut Carbon and Stuff From Our Lives
Apr/100
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Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch
Green:Net is all about how technology is benefiting our struggle towards sustainable living. But rather than a festival of green gadgets or services that do little more than help one monitor how much juice their gadgets consume, the event is a gathering of the best minds that look at how technology can play a role in utterly transforming how we interact with our world. IT has its own footprint to worry about, it’s true, but it’s minute compared to the footprint of transportation and buildings, and more importantly, IT can be used to drastically …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Hyper-Absorbant Peat Moss Could Clean Up Oil Spills Like Louisiana’s
Apr/100
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A tiny Norwegian company has developed a super absorbent organic peat moss that is capable of cleaning up oil floating on water. The peat is scattered on the spill and absorbs the oil, and, because it doesn’t absorb water, it can then simply be scooped out — taking the toxic oil with it.
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Hydro Lance Recycles Jets into High-Speed Planeboats
Apr/100
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Here at Inhabitat we’ve seen our fair share of airplanes repurposed into incredible new forms, but this heavy-duty recycling plan takes the cake. A company called Hydro Lance proposes to transform old, obsolete aircraft into high-speed ocean vessels by replacing their wings with narrow pontoons. An old 727-200 could be converted into a high-speed, ultra-stable passenger ferry capable of traveling at a speed of more than 120 knots (nearly 140 mph).
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