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Bead Recycling Program Gives New Life to Carnival Throws
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS -- Mardi Gras may be fun, but it isn't exactly green. Excess is the name of the game, and New Orleans delivers. A single rider on a parade float might throw more than 3,000 beads –- and there are hundreds of riders in each of the city's 40-plus parades. The result is a vast sea of beads, millions of them scattered in the streets, hanging in the trees and draped around the necks of thousands upon thousands of drunken revelers. That's why Arc of Greater New Orleans, a Metairie, La.-based nonprofit, is doing its best to round up the year's beads and recycle them for a new ...
Pranksters Blamed for Turning Canadian River Fluorescent Green
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThe Goldstream River didn't live up to its name last month when the Canadian waterway started flowing bright green. The river, which runs through the city of Langford, British Columbia, turned a fluorescent green on Dec. 30, when a passer-by captured stunning video of the verdant waterway. At first it wasn't clear what caused the river -- and the water in a nearby fountain -- to change color. But investigators now believe that the green hue was caused by the addition of fluorescein, a synthetic organic compound that is often used as a dye, or a "fluorescent tracer," in the testing of water ...
Green Screen: Inside the World's Smallest Solar-Powered Movie Theater
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Dec. 8) -- Lights, camera ... environmental action? You might say it's an inconvenient truth, but the movie industry is anything but green. With their supercold ACs and flashy marquees, movie theaters require a great deal of energy. Except for England's Sol Cinema. The tiny mobile movie theater -- dubbed the world's smallest solar-powered cinema by its creators -- runs only on energy it harnesses from the sun. ...
100 Recycled Bicycles = 1 Weird Christmas Tree
By Ed Mazza - AOL News
(Nov. 27) -- Most Christmas trees are already green, but this environmentally friendly holiday display in Sydney takes the concept to a new level: It's made of bicycles that were destined for the recycling yard. The bicycle tree, dubbed the "Tree-Cycle," is made of 100 old bikes donated by a local recycling company. The bike frames were spray-painted tree green, while the tires were given a multi-colored makeover to make them look like holiday lights. And if you thought you spent a lot of time putting up your tree, consider this: It took eight weeks to build the 23-foot-tall Tree-Cycle, ...
US Navy Tests Boat Powered by Algae
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The U.S. Navy has developed what it calls a "mean, green riverine machine" -- a 49-foot camouflage gunboat capable of outracing destroyer fleets and powered in part by seaweed. Swishing around in the vessel's fuel tank is a 50-50 mix of algae-based biofuel and diesel that powers high-performance vessels in a way the military says is indistinguishable from conventional fuels. The new boat is part of the Navy's goal to boost its use of alternative energy, such as biofuels and nuclear power, to half of its total consumption by the year 2020. Only about 16 percent of the Navy's ...
Greenpeace Activists in Chocolate Sauce Protest Deep-Water Drilling
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Oct. 4) -- Occasionally, you'll hear of people slathering themselves in chocolate sauce because they're feeling a bit kinky -- not because they're making a political statement. Bikini-clad activists in France covered themselves in fake oil to voice a simple message: Oil and water don't mix. Demonstrators from the environmental group Greenpeace put on bathing suits and doused themselves with mock petroleum on Saturday to protest deep-water drilling and a controversial plan to extract oil from oil-bearing sands. According to the Greenpeace website, the demonstrators gathered in Paris, ...
Sun Chips Trashes Super Noisy Compostable Bag, Silencing It Forever
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- The reign of the Sun Chips "100 percent compostable" bag will end with a crinkle, not a deafening roar. Frito Lay's much-hyped green packaging hits the proverbial dust compost bin of history today due to a unusually rigid molecular structure that made the bag hilariously loud and, thus, unappealing to snackers (particularly those of the stealthy sort): The company will return to the original, non-biodegradable packaging for five of its six flavors but retain the crinkly compostable for the "original" flavor. In the meantime, it's back to the drawing board as they research how to ...
Obama Responds to Glenn Beck Rally, Doubts About His Own Religion
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyPresident Obama said Sunday that he understood the public frustration during hard times that fueled the turnout for conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend, and said he was confident that Americans will "get beyond all this nonsense" about whether he is really a Christian or born in the U.S. In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams meant to mark the fifth anniversary of Katrina, Obama said he had not watched coverage of the event with its strong undertone of anti-Obama and anti-Democrat sentiment, but he understood why Beck was striking a chord with some ...
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