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Incredible Origami Art Created With Money
Get creative and practice the art of paper folding by using up measly dollar bills or foreign currency souvenirs you've got lying around the house to create money origami masterpieces featuring famous people wearing all manner of headpieces from around the world. You'll definitely find some inspiration in our collection of pictures...
Continue reading...5 Catastrophic Earthquakes in Major Cities
Monday, April 28, 2008
Paso Robales, California, 2003. Image from Hey Paul Earthquakes are a perfect representation of the age-old riddle: if a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a noise?
Continue reading...Group Says Eating Whales Will Stop Global Warming
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Norwegian group has come up with a controversial new idea, save the planet by eating whales. A Norwegian group thinks eating this minke whale is environmentally friendly . Image by Julius Agrippa The attention grabbing idea comes from the High North Alliance, a group that lobbies for [...]
Continue reading...Top UK University Takes Cash from Japanese Whaling Agency
Monday, March 3, 2008
A top British university has been criticized after it emerged they accepted money from the Japanese agency in charge of the country’s annual whale hunt. The classics building at the university. Original image by Jjhake The University of St Andrews in Scotland is one of the most prestigious institutions [...]
Continue reading...Tobacco Companies Claim Cigarettes are “Eco Friendly”
Friday, February 29, 2008
It’s official. Greenwashing has become the hot trend in marketing. If this doesn’t say “green” I don’t know what does. Image by Ben Schumin Greenwashing, or making misleading claims about a product’s environmental credentials, has become a commonplace commercial and environmental issue. More and more people are speaking with [...]
Continue reading...Coke Zero: Not Just a Cola, but an Emissions Standard?
Friday, February 29, 2008
Eaton, maker of the hybrid electric drivetrain for large commercial vehicles, announced today that they had received an order from Coca-Cola for 120 trucks, a serious move by the beverage giant towards having a green fleet. Coke had previously field tested 20 of the vehicles and [...]
Continue reading...Are Credit Cards Bad For The Environment?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
I was at the coffee shop this morning and, much to my dismay, did not have three dollars with which to pay the lady for my sanity and large muffin. This led to me reaching for plastic charge cards, which, if you didn’t know, means she now [...]
Continue reading...King Coal Strikes Back
Monday, February 25, 2008
This may be a bit of old news, but then again I think that delusion of a grand scale deserves to be called out from time to time. Photo by Stephen Codrington I think we specialize in this in the US, and for whatever reason our state legislatures are [...]
Continue reading...BP Abandons Green Plans, Goes Back to Carbon
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Under the leadership of former CEO Lord Browne, British Petroleum had made steps to move its business model beyond only petroleum and into newer and greener energy sources. But with oil prices at record highs, and expected to stay there, new CEO Tony Hayward has decided to forget [...]
Continue reading...$1.5 Trillion Investment Firms Call for 90% Emissions Reductions
Friday, February 15, 2008
As the great scholars AC/DC once said: “Money talks.” Recently, a lot of that money has been talking about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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