Stop West Virginia’s Spruce Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

Photo courtesy of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and SouthWings. While we watch the continuing BP oil disaster in the Gulf, there is another form of dirty, destructive, energy we need to break free from: Coal. A very important deadline is rapidly approaching —on June 1st the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will stop taking public comments on its proposed veto of the permit that would allow devastating mountaintop removal coal mining at the massive Spruce No

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Isabella Rossellini, The Green Porn Star

Ever since she was a child, legendary model and actress Isabella Rossellini has been fascinated and amused by animals and their intricate rituals. Wanting to share her passion with the world through film, she chose a premise no one can say no to. Sex

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EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Finds ‘Path Forward’ for Second

Six days into 2010 and the battle over mountaintop removal coal mining is set to start up again. Yesterday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had found “a path forward on two coal mining operations in West Virginia.” The two operations are both mountaintop mines, one in Lincoln County , one in

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Green Box Biking and Safety: It’s All in Our Heads

Photo of a PDX bike box via itdp @ flickr. Portland, disputedly still American’s premier cycling city, has been experimenting with 14 bike boxes – road markings that designate exactly where cyclists and motorists should place their vehicles when stopped at an intersection with a red light.

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Green Box Biking and Safety: It’s All in Our Heads

Fish Factory Converted Into Residence

We love showing the recycling and repurposing of existing buildings; The spaces that result are often dramatic. But this one is a bit fishy; Zaigas Gailes birojs have converted this pumping station from an abandoned fish plant in Latvia into a residence, complete with a big central hall, a couple of apartments and a shiny new bathing pavilion….

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Fish Factory Converted Into Residence