Photo: Big Cat Rescue …And how one of the world’s leading conservationists says we can fix it Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is a wildlife conservationist rock star — insofar as there is such a thing as a conservationist rock star, that is. No further evidence is needed then his talk at Poptech 2010 , where he brought down the house and roused a standing ovation with the story of his lifel… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Carly Fiorina has been giving Barbara Boxer cause to worry about her Senate seat as the midterm elections loom large, but the contest in California took an unexpected turn on Tuesday, when Fiorina suspended her campaign to deal with an infection stemming from a round of post-breast cancer reconstructive surgery she underwent last summer. However, her chief of staff emphasized that her turnaround time following this hospital visit will be short.
Continue reading …Vacuum Cleaners Made from Ocean Plastic Highlight Ugly Pollution, Beautiful Design
October 26, 2010 No Comment
Photos via Electrolux This summer we let you know about a really cool project from Electrolux, a company that wanted to make a series of their well-known vacuum cleaners out of plastic collected from the ocean. Well, they’ve done it — and the vacuums turned out way cooler than we’d have imagined. The company just announced five unique vacuum cleaners each made from plastics collected from a different sea. Check them out, and a video on the process of collect… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Janet Jackson says she still has a long to-do list. The 44-year-old star of the new drama “For Colored Girls” says she’d love to foray into Brazilian music and Jazz, genres she grew up listening to. (Oct. 26)
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The Guardian is reporting that some of Europe’s biggest polluters, including everyone’s favorite oil company, have given $240,200 in campaign donations to U.S. senators who, coincidentally, helped defeat climate change legislation. It’s all legal , provided the cash originally comes from American citizens or residents. See how BP spends it’s political money in the U.S. here . The Guardian: BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama’s energy agenda, the Guardian has learned. An analysis of campaign finance by Climate Action Network Europe (Cane) found nearly 80% of campaign donations from a number of major European firms were directed towards senators who blocked action on climate change. These included incumbents who have been embraced by the Tea Party such as Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and the notorious climate change denier James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma. Read more Related Entries October 25, 2010 What If? So What? October 25, 2010 McConnell: Ousting Obama Is GOP’s Top Goal
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ATLIT NAVAL BASE, Israel (Reuters) – Saying “I salute you,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the headquarters on Tuesday of Israeli naval commandos who killed nine pro-Palestinian Turks aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands with naval commandos during his visit to the Atlit naval base near the northern city of Haifa October 26, 2010. (REUTERS/Dan Balilty/Pool) Netanyahu’s tour of the top-security Flotilla 13 base on the coast near Haifa was a show of defiance against…
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The remains of around 100 people believed to have been Muslims killed early in the Bosnian 1992-95 war have been unearthed from a lake bed on the border between Bosnia and Serbia, forensic experts said on Tuesday. “We have unearthed a total of 396 skeletal remains which belong to at least 97 bodies,” said Amor Masovic, the head of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute. The victims, believed to be some of the 1,000 Bosnian Muslims who went…
Continue reading …Can Green Walls Beside Highways Actually Reduce Temperature and Pollution?
October 26, 2010 No Comment
A new project to turn a highway structure into a living wall in Buenos Aires. Photos: Paula Alvarado. The Buenos Aires government is doing a six month tryout of how green walls perform in the city’s highways as noise, temperature and pollution mitigators. Installed inside horizontal tubes filled with water and nutrients, the first seedlings were planted in the exit of a route that connects the southern part of the city with the suburbs. But, do green walls next to motorways do any good at all?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The billionaire investor/activist has written a well-reasoned essay in the Wall Street Journal arguing for an end to marijuana prohibition. The L.A. Times reports that in California, Soros is backing the cause with more than words. California’s Prop 19, as Soros explains, “would legalize the recreational use and small-scale cultivation of marijuana.” The billionaire is reportedly helping to fund the initiative, as is the guy from the Men’s Wearhouse commercials. At least one law enforcement official, Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca, says he’ll ignore the proposition if it passes. Baca, who told reporters he has “hell no” never smoked marijuana, just wants to live in a world where teenagers and glaucoma patients don’t blow smoke in his face: “If you want to do a joint in your house, do it. Leave the rest of us alone.”
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A reunited Take That talk about their newly announced summer tour plans and reveal how they coped having Robbie Williams back in the group. (Oct. 26)
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