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Head Gardener: urban eco-art

EcoStreet   
August 5th, 2010

Head Gardener: urban eco-art

UK urban land artist and guerilla gardener Anna Garforth turned 2-litre milk bottles into cute characters with green hair-does and put them out in the streets for everyone to enjoy.

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Web campaign vows to blast BP with vuvuzelas

CNET   
July 1st, 2010

Web campaign vows to blast BP with vuvuzelas

In order to put a bit of public pressure on the oil company, a group plans to buy 100 vuvuzelas and hire 100 vuvuzela players off Craigslist to play in front of BP’s International Headquarters in London for an entire work day.

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Plant a garden … in your bra?! Japanese undergarmet does double-duty as a rice-growing kit

New York Daily News   
May 14th, 2010

Japanese urban farmers who wear the gimmicky new undergarment can grow their own rice in recyclable plastic pots that double as the cups.

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Catherine Mohr builds green

TED    Video
April 15th, 2010

In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think.

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An ode to dirt and dust

Ode Magazine    Yobo Member
July 14th, 2010

Scientific community has learned that playing in the dirt makes people happier and their immune systems stronger.

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Welcoming Homer the tree-hugger

BBC News   
June 13th, 2010

Welcoming Homer the tree-hugger

Whether you are a hypocrite, a poseur or a plain bozo, the environmental movement needs you, says George Meyer in The Green Room – either that, or a move to Jupiter beckons.

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One Flush Does Not Fit All

Daniel Roberts    Yobo Member
May 10th, 2010

An educated consumer is more likely to make a smart choice, and the accumulation of smart choices can lead to substantial conservation.

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Skydiving Cats Over Borneo!

Greenopolis   
April 13th, 2010

Skydiving Cats Over Borneo!

An amusing anecdote reminds us that we need to think systemically whenever we intervene in nature — a balanced system that has been doing pretty well for 3.8 billion years.

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