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10 Best Summer Music Festivals to Get Your Eco On

Several large summer music festivals are pushing the envelope in terms of environmental and sustainability initiatives.

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Green Street Art

New technology and new trends in street art mean that spray paint is not the only tool in the artists palette.

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Clean Coal? 10 of the World's Dirtiest Power Plants

Coal is the undisputed leader in dirty fuel sources. But beyond the issue of global warming, coal-fired power plants are also dangerously dirty in other ways.

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Celebrity Environmentalists Helping the Planet

These 7 green celebrities have used their fame as a platform to spread the word on everything from climate change to ending our dependency on foreign oil.

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7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World

From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.

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(Catur)day Comes Early: 7 Craziest Celebrity Cats

From toilet trained and seeing-eye to station master and ceiling cats here are some of the strangest celebrity felines to make front pages and prime time around the world.

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WebEcoist 121: 6 Months of Awesome

t seems like yesterday that WebEcoist was launched with a mandate to cover "even more of your favorite travel, art, architecture and oddities, but with a twist:

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Art of Animal Abuse, Cruelty & Torture

Let's take a brief look at this hopefully transient trend and think about what art really is. Is it culture, or is it barbarianism?

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Great Goats: Climbing, Fainting and More

Tree climbing, fainting and mountain goats as well as some odds and ends thrown in for entertainment - who knew this one type of animal could be so cool?

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Handi-Capable Pets & Amazing Animal Heroism

There are some truly amazing animals who have overcome disabilities to help fellow animals as well as their owners - saving and rescuing against all odds.

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Strangest Environmental News of 2008

Weird green tech and bad-ass hybrids. Shmeat...and the naked celebs promoting it. The coldest record on year and the Maldives' panic attack. It's been a wild year in green

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29 Disturbingly Creative Ads for the Environment

Here is a collection of 29 disturbingly creative advertisements from 5 different organizations trying to spread awareness and make a change.

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25 Environmental Agencies and Organizations

25 online green, eco and environmnetal agencies and organizations for wildlife conservation, land conservation, climate change and environmental activism.

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Green Utopian Eco-Village Saved

Learn about secret eco villages, sustainable cities, floating islands and futuristic eco housing developments and concepts you may or may not want to live in.

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25 Green Forums and Social Media Sites

Want to find other envirogeeks online? Learn about the best green environmental forums, social media and social bookmarking sites online.

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