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Editor’s note: In almost eight years of blogging, I don’t think I’ve ever posted competitively… but that is the case with this one. Aveda invited me to enter a blogging/social media competition in which the winner takes a trip to India in the Fall with the company’s team. Yeah, I’d love to go to India… so if you feel moved to help, see the details below. Yep, the Earth Day/Week/Month promotions are coming in fast and furiously… enough to make even the most die-hard green blogger a bit cranky. I’m usually not compelled to shout “greenwashing,” but if you got a look at my inbox… well, you’d see my conundrum
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Aveda Celebrates Earth Month with Light the Way™ Candles
Had to love this video of skaters making their own skate park out of quake ravaged Christchurch. Apart form some excellent skating, and one even better miss, it gives you a good idea of the degree of damage to the roading infrastructure -such that when you drive along a number of streets, particularly in the east of the city , there is a feeling similar to seasickness from the strange rolling bumps in the road, almost as if the waves of earth movement had been captured in the asphalt. But this is a good piece of film . For other stories more …
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A skateboarders guide to Quake damaged Christchurch
by Jess Zimmerman. Man, is there anything mushrooms can’t do? They make a damn fine fake meat, they make Mario bigger, caterpillars smoke hookahs on them, the whole nine yards. And now, thanks to a company called Ecovative, they can be used to replace styrofoam in some of Earth’s most persistent enemies: packing materials and car parts. The fake foam actually grows itself — Ecovative fills a mold with a mix of mushroom spores and a waste material like oat husks, and over a few days the mushrooms grow and the roots glue themselves together into a strong and lightweight material
by Christopher Mims. Here’s a stomach-churning video of a wind turbine karate-chopping a vulture. Watching it will probably change the way you look at wind turbines. (Seriously, bird-lovers be warned: It is intense.) This video, originally captured by a tourist in Greece, vividly illustrates what happens 440,000 times a year, according to the American Bird Conservancy. If that sounds like a lot — it’s nearly one bird every minute — just imagine what will happen as wind power ramps up to many times its current footprint. Fortunately, there are solutions. ABC says that bird strikes can be minimized if regulations force wind power companies to: • Site their farms mostly on land that’s already disturbed (I.e. farmland.) Also, keeping them out of migratory flight paths will reduce the threat.
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Wind turbines kill birds, but they don’t have to—here’s how to do better (Video)
What’s the best way to get people to change their behaviour? The funtheory.com has a theory on that – make it fun.Take this video clip for example which applies the theory as a means of encouraging rubbish disposal .
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Great experiments in fun theory -rubbish disposal