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Pomboo!
Never mind turning children into toads — how about turning toad habitat into oil wells? This Halloween, scare the bejesus out of your friends with the Pombo mask, a tribute to the California congressman who recently proposed — seriously — selling off 15 national monuments and preserves. Trick or … eco-cide!
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What are your office hours, Professor Diaz?
We’re totally gay for William McDonough, eco-architect and world-transformation guru. Same goes for Cameron Diaz, whose work for green causes is only made more charming by her valley-girl ditzitude. But McDonough and Diaz together in one lecture hall? Swoon, we tell you. Swoon.
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OZO you didn’t
From the same folks who persuaded celebrities to arrive at the Oscars in Priuses comes OZOcar, a luxury hybrid car service in New York that pampers customers with high-speed wireless internet, an iBook, satellite radio, and, oh yeah — mad treehugger cred.
Photo: OZOcar.
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You still can’t make us watch fencing
Renewable energy. Low-carbon transportation. Zero waste. Ecological restoration. It’s no hippie wet dream … ew … it’s the 2012 London Olympics. Partnering with green groups WWF and BioRegional, London will rock the “One Planet Olympics” in high cradle-to-cradle style.
Photo: London 2012.
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Kid tested, LEED approved
Look, we know the modern green-building movement disdains McMansions and favors smaller domiciles … but this is ridiculous. Seventeen green-built dollhouses are on display in San Mateo, Calif., through Dec. 3. Take Junior to see ’em.
Photo: Emily Hagopian.
