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Free movie tickets to “No Impact Man”

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

He’s the man who has vowed to make zero net impact on the environement for an entire year and he’s filming it all for everyone to watch.  “The No Impact Man” is a documentary being released in select cities and…

New NASA Building will be self aware

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Remember how in school you learn that what makes humans unique is that they are self aware? Well, humans might have competition from NASA’s new self aware building in California. The building will use zero net energy and will do…

All the big drills, and all the Fed’s dough couldn’t put Iraq together again.

Monday, July 27th, 2009

It’s an unfortunate case of Humpty Dumpty in Iraq, Iran, and other nations as the era of oil comes to an end in a problem known as peak oil.  It is an often debated problem that usually only garners the…

Central Park Airport?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Over at our friends at Treehugger, Lloyd Alter tells us about plans to turn parts of New York’s Central Park into a new airport.  It has environmentalists it somewhat of a conondrum.  Some would like saving the gas from going…

Obama’s ‘feel good’ agreement on nuclear weapons with Russia.

Monday, July 6th, 2009

 
It was a symbolic gesture of good will for the reduction of nuclear proliferation when Obama met with Russia’s president Dmitri Medvedev (any bets on whether or not Mrs. Clinton gave him pointers on how to pronounce that last…

Chandeliers made with hypodermic needles, tables from CDs

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

By now you’re wondering what’s up with channel’s beat of weird furniture ideas this week.  Promise — it’s completely random, but greatly useful in crafting a sustainable future.  At the very least, the kind of ideas like the Transformative Furniture talked…

Litter of endangered lynx kittens discovered.

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Sometimes there is good news to report on the environment.  In the efforts to give a little bit of that good news and for those cat lovers that insist on e-mail chains of cats doing bizarre things, the discovery by…

Bobby Kennedy Jr. tells Springsteen fans “get arrested.”

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Before Bruce Springsteen took the stage over the weekend at Bonnaroo, he had a stronge message for the crowd: Coal is not the answer to our environmental problems and it is a “crime”.  He asked the fans to get arrested…

Tips for Green Living in a Small Apartment

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

You may not be able to afford a hybrid car or solar panels, but you can certainly still live green on a budget–just follow the lead of Barcelona resident Petz Scholtus, designer and correspondent for Treehugger.  The green-living European implemented…