Green Angst

Musings from a Bay Area environmental reporter

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Truer words were never spoken.

Buy your own print -- a cheeky quote on a vintage dictionary page -- at Etsy shop, Ex Libris Journals.

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A giant seed bomb in the shape of a skull? It's both gothic and environmentally-minded -- and I love it.

You can find this seed sculpture at Guerilla Garden's Etsy shop.

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Make your own 1970s-flashback bumper sticker to celebrate Earth Week here.

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Via DoSomething.

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Celebrities read mean tweets about themselves. Hilarity ensues.

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Awww, I love Method. And I recognize one of the founders in this video who was at the company press conference I attended in September!

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I had heard/read about Rush Limbaugh's typical, name-calling rant against Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke before I saw the actual video clip. When I finally saw it, my first thought was a reaction to the bumper music, "Why is Peter Gabriel's song 'Sledgehammer' now implicated in this stupidity?"

So I was excited to hear that Gabriel had his representatives call Limbaugh's show to ask him not to use Gabriel's music anymore.

And I was also appreciative to see this comment from Gabriel on his Facebook page:

"I am a real believer in the Freedom of Speech and would defend Rush Limbaugh’s right to mouth off about almost anything. I just don’t like my work being used as the bed track for prejudice or hatred." 

My sentiments exactly.

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I'm glad Apple's ill-deserved corporate responsibility halo is wearing off, and people are looking into its supply chain for human rights violations and environmental damage. But really, all electronics - made by any company - have the same problems; these issues need to be addressed industry-wide.

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If we couldn't stop the slaughter of men, women and children in Rwanda, how will we save the bluefin tuna?

Australian tuna rancher in "Sushi: The Global Catch," a documentary about how the global demand for sushi is threatening an important species of fish

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Separated at birth?

Andy Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone. When Andy OD'd, Eddie Vedder joined the band that would eventually become Pearl Jam.

Khloe Kardashian, one of those reality stars who is famous for nothing.

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Be afraid - be very afraid of Herman Cain's new political ad. Do you think he was inspired by Faith No More's video for Epic?

Any questions?

ANY QUESTIONS?

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UC Davis' West Village is a new mixed-use community, located adjacent to the core campus, with housing for students, faculty and staff. Opening last month, the neighborhood is the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States.

Read more about it here.

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Check out these cool ice cubes shaped like polar bears and penguins on ice floes -- an artistic reminder of climate change as you sip a chilled beverage on a warm day.

Read more at Inhabitat.

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When recycling goes wrong...

"Combine the spike in commodity metal prices with advances in geriatric medicine and the increased trend to cremation and what do you get? A thriving trade in artificial joint harvesting and recycling.

A Dutch company called OrthoMetals recycles 250 tons of scrap from cremated bodies -- cofounder Ruud Verberne notes that it takes five hips to make one kilo of metal, which fetches €12 on the scrap market."

Read the rest at BoingBoing.

::vomits::

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"Mitt, are you just naming things you see in the state and saying you love them?"

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This basically sums up why I finally canceled my subscription to Time Magazine last year.

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Check out this nifty drum set made of old wine barrels.  Read more about the cool upcycling project at Inhabitat.