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Although we haven't traveled to Lebanon, we have had a Lebanese friend when touring through Syria. He told us that Lebanon was an advanced country and much different than the "time machine feeling" we were getting in Syria: It was 9 years ago, and the cars looked like they were from the 30s; people everywhere were dressed in traditional gear and it seemed that the environment was very low on the country's agenda (litter was everywhere and cars spewed fumes).

We never did get to visit Lebanon (mainly because getting a VISA would take too much time), but we have been able to...

SEED Magazine, the parent of the ScienceBlogs' network, has just launched a new group blog all about alternative energy, something we know a little about here at TreeHugger. It's called Next Generation Energy (not the most original name ever, guys) and will be co-authored by at least 7 people, many from inside the ScienceBlogs family, and a few from outside ("from journalism, marine biology, banking, and engineering").

Like good neighbors, we want to welcome them to our little blogging eco...

Get it while it's still hot off the press: The Onion's Obligatory Green Issue! Here's a sample headline: 450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues Of Time Trucked To Landfill....

The UK-based Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is a body that regulates truthfulness in advertising. We’ve already seen the authority step in to a number of disputes regarding sustainability claims – including banning a deceptive Lexus ad; a greenwashing campaign for conventional cotton, and claims from Ryanair that aviation accounted for only 2% of global greenhouse emissions. But it’s not just corporations that the ASA has on their toes – it also ...

Huge cocoons have been found at locations around the world - the first reported one being at an infant school in Leicester UK.

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/more-alien-cocoons-found-tokyo-washington-huge-cocoon-appears-infant-school-garden

Inspired by our friends at Valleywag and their post about Time Magazine's Top 25 Blogs (in which TreeHugger.com was #4), we've decided to compile Time Magazine's list of The Top 15 Green Websites. This time, TreeHugger is #2 (though we're not sure if the list is ordered by rank or not), and many of our friends from the green web-ecosystem are there.

As Valleywag points out, they...

The following is a possibly entertaining but highly unedited rant, thank you:

Brooklyn, NY: The inner-sanctum of Hipster-dom, along with it's spiritual annexes; Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, Hollywood etc. tends to house avenues and streets that bleed fresh creative explorations before vulturous bacterias grow within and feed off of the collective right-brain hemorrhages. Well, maybe not Hollywood, anymore.

Hollywood seems to have been reduced to having it's heart valves that used to gush blood for the sake of flowing become clogged with festering deleterious dyssocial disease long-time go.
The reasons for why Hollywood, unlike some other metropolises that house a constant, age-old war of what reduces down to Jedi versus Sith, has chosen to become a breeding pen of cultural ouroboros remains unclear.