BP Sends Fake Journalist to Cover the Gulf Spill

Image via Alligator Farm Is there no end to BP’s hypocrisies and ludicrous actions? Evidently not. Here’s the latest, in a long line of curious blunders and aggravating insensitivities: after being publicly chastised time and again for denying access to journalists , BP has evidently loosed its own “journalists” on the scene to really get to the meat of the story .

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Beer Rescue Puts Landfill Employees in Hot Water

Image via TreeHugger.com, who will not stand idly by while beer goes to waste. Save the Beers! File this story under, “That Ain’t Right!” Two employees of the Columbia, Missouri Solid Waste Division and beer rescuing heroes, Beer Heroes or Beeroes, if you will, have made headlines for rescuing some 50-odd cases of beer from being needlessly destroyed at the landfi..

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Jackson Browne Joins Mission Blue, the NRDC Honors Sheryl Crow, and More

Photo via Transworld Business Oceanographer and author Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize with a far-reaching wish: “to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.” The result? Mission Blue, an organization that creates and conserves marine areas, which kicked off with the Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands.

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Eating Like a Bird Promotes Plant Health, Increases Biomass

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps it’s because humans sit at the top of the food chain , or maybe it’s that big predators so capture the imagination, but much of the attention given to the web of predators and prey focuses on this upper edge—the polar bears , the tigers, the wolves.

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Poacher Attacked by Rhinos Hippos, Devoured by Lions

UPDATE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the poachers were attacked by Rhinos.

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Annie Leonard Tells the Story of Bottled Water on World Water Day

Happy World Water Day ! In honor of this day of international awareness, Annie Leonard has released a new video talking about the evils of bottled water . Entitled “ The Story of Bottled Water “, the new short film is done in the same style as her hit video The Story of Stuff , with simple cartoons, hard-hitting facts and compelling information. Even if you were against bottled water before, this video will make you cringe at how wasteful bottling water in plastic can be.

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Annie Leonard Tells the Story of Bottled Water on World Water Day

Crafty Reuse: Making Recycled Books from Trash

Confession time: I am sort of a journal fiend. I feel incomplete leaving the house without some sort of notebook for jotting down ideas. It’s fun to buy a journal , but my inner crafter sometimes wishes I’d get it together to make my very own recycled notebook.

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Crafty Reuse: Making Recycled Books from Trash

U.S. Could Produce 12 Times its Energy Needs with Wind Power

A recent study from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) suggests that the continental U.S. has the potential to produce 37 million gigawatt-hours of electricity from wind power each year . That’s a huge leap from the 52,026 gigawatt-hours we used in 2008

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69 Bear Invasions In New Jersey Last Year: Hunt On

Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit: News 12, video.

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How Australia Could Be Carbon Neutral in 10 Years

Image via Beyond Zero Emissions As of late, Australia’s climate battles have mirrored those of the United States in some most unfortunate ways–despite having internationally respected, science-abiding, and climate action advocating leaders, neither nation can manage to pass energy reform that would limit carbon emissions. In the US, most of you know the story–a laggard Senate has been unable to even bring the clean energy bill to a vote

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