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São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm?chan=top news_top news ...
The "Clean City" law passed last year by the populist mayor, Gilberto Kassab, stripped the Brazilian city of all advertising. So how's it looking now?
Fuel Economy
http://www.fueleconomy.gov
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Study finds oceans of old plastic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1211260,00.html
Microscopic polymer waste is everywhere. I still enjoy Ronald Wright's vision of 20th-century humanity laying down a polycarbon layer as a mineable fuel for distant-future earth species.
Reuters | Australian Town Joins Global War on Plastic Bags
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5835779§ion=news
"Thousands of turtles, birds and other marine animals are killed each year after mistaking the millions of bags in the world's oceans for squid and jellyfish."
Symbollix
http://www.symbollix.com/main.html
Gallery of the graffiti-through-cleaning advertising thing, including some nice flyposter mutilation. It's still graffiti, though.
NASA - Clouds Caused By Aircraft Exhaust May Warm The U.S. Climate
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/apr/HQ_04140_clouds_climate.html
"This study demonstrates that human activity has a visible and significant impact on cloud cover and, therefore, on climate. It indicates that contrails should be included in climate change scenarios."
Guardian Unlimited | Tales of the underworld
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1447715,00.html
Blake Morrison exploring the sewers of London. "But the real enemies are the fast-food outlets. [...] Where a slug of fat is several cubic metres in volume, pressure-jetting isn't enough to clear it - they have to use pick-axes instead."
Guardian Unlimited | It's green, it's clean and it's, er, too quiet
http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/motoring/story/0,1587,1438605,00.html
"British engineers who yesterday unveiled the prototype of the world's first hydrogen-powered motorbike confessed they were considering adding an artificial 'vroom' to the machine as they were worried its silence might be dangerous."
RSA - Our Work - The WEEE Man
http://www.thersa.org/projects/weee_man.asp
"The huge 3 tonne figure stands 7 metres high and is totally composed of WEEE – from washing machines to mobile phones and electronic toys. This represents the amount of waste that a single person in the UK is likely to produce in a lifetime."
Space Daily: Space Launch Scraps Providing Sustenance For Russian Vil...
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-05d.html
"Scrap metal collectors generally will not comment on how much they collect in a year but fragmented data for 2003 alone indicated that about 20 tons of 'space metals' was collected."
UncommonGoods: Global Warming Mug
http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=13858
"Just pour in a hot cup of coffee, and the ocean starts to spread across the continent as ice caps melt and water levels rise."
Popular Science: The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bub...
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
On the market next year. "Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. 'I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody,' he recalls. 'It ate through clothes.'"
New Scientist Technology - Pigeons to set up a smog blog
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925376.000
"Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies [each] carrying a GPS receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic cellphone. They will measure levels of pollutants they encounter, and beam back their findings [to] a blog in real time."
Magnum Photos - Spaceship Junkyard
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060412/4.html
"Altai, Russia - Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2000. Environmentalists fear for the region's future due to toxic rocket fuel."
Met Office: The Great Smog of 1952
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/secondary/students/smog.html
"In many parts of London, it was impossible at night for pedestrians to find their way, even in familiar districts. In the Isle of Dogs, the visibility was at times nil. The fog there was so thick that people could not see their own feet!"
Imagine Earth without people - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100
"It will only take a few tens of thousands of years [before] almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find no obvious signs that an advanced civilisation ever lived here."
Crowds gather goods washed from stricken ship | Guardian Unlimited En...
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1996029,00.html
"Police have been handing out forms to salvagers on which they must declare the items taken. The forms will then be sent to the official Receiver of Wreck, who will resolve the question of ownership."
Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few line...
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/2281
Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few l ...
A Concrete Step Toward Cleaner Air
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/nov2006/id20061108_116412.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
A Concrete Step Toward Cleaner Air
Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
http://globalwarming-facts.info/50-tips.html
Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
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