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Have you ever considered what happens to ocean-bound trash?
Greenpeace has an dunbelievable Pacific Ocean pollution animation.
You really have to see this to believe it.
Plastic and other durable trash that flows from waterways into the Pacific Ocean end up in something called the North Pacific Gyre. This is basically a big swirling “trash [...]
According to this report from Reuters this morning, both of the Democratic hopefuls, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton cast far more “green” votes in Congress than Republican John McCain.
According to the League of Conservation Voters, on a 0-100 scale, the three Presidential hopefuls have the following historical scores:
* McCain: 24 percent
* Clinton: 73 percent
* Obama: [...]
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Two sites came up today that I thought were important to share:
Breathingearth.com succeeds because sometimes it takes some pictures to clarify where words don’t suffice.
BreathingEarth is a Flash-driven site using simulation to show how much C02 is being emitted at any given point, in any spot in the world.
The site is basically an [...]
Toyota is continuing to innovate in the environmentally-friendly auto world. The new Toyota iQ will be coming into production during late 2008.
This so-called compact urban vehicle boasts some simple + green concepts:
* Small is better
* Fuel-efficiency
* Maximizing space for compact transportation
From the February 13th Press Release:
iQ represents a break-through in compact urban transportation. For [...]
First the USDA announces the largest beef recall in US history.
Now we have this:
According to today’s article on SFGate.com, there is one possible, and very scary, outcome. Soon, consumers may not be able to avoid cloned food.
In January, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned foods are safe to eat. And now the market [...]
This just in: USDA Makes Nation’s Largest Beef Recall
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a [...]
Many of us have heard this story for some time now: a freakishly high percentage of women in Marin County end up developing breast cancer, and overall higher rates of breast cancer than the national average.
The cause of such a concentration has eluded doctors and experts for years.
Could it be something environmental? Chemical? Some smart [...]
An organization in England has created a really great Carbon Reduction movement. They’re asking people to give up Carbon consumption for Lent.
Based on the “local church” concept, tearfund does a good deal of work to help the world’s poorest communities. They also bring awareness to how global warming is affecting every single community: rich or [...]
I just saw this posted on Kanye West’s blog (I had gone there looking for something related to his recent Grammy appearances).
HumanCar’s human-powered hybrid concept Imagine LMV will be unveiled on Earth Day in April. Human-powered?
The $15,000 super-human hybrid is expected to feature an exo-skeletal safety cage chassis, dual electric motors and variable human power [...]
Something very cool is about to happen on March 29th. And I found out about it on while reading one of my favorite musician’s blog. As a simple+green reader, you’re finding out right from the source.
EarthHour is all about turning off all of your power for just one hour in the name of fighting global [...]
