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Planned Greenpeace Fortress Aims to Stop Heathrow Runway

Airport officials in London will have a really hard time building that planned third runway once Greenpeace is done building their “impenetrable fortress” right smack in the middle of the land intended for the project. The structure, located on one acre of Greenpeace-owned land, will house and protect airport expansion protesters.
But who’s going to design [...]

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Sting’s Wife Trudie Styler Flies Stylist Across U.S.

Trudie Styler, film producer and wife of the musician Sting, spends much of her life criticizing the oil industry and campaigning on behalf of environmental and human rights causes. But, that didn’t stop the “green celebrity” from flying a hair stylist across America last week to do her hair and make-up for a White House [...]

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Boeing 727 Gets New Life as Costa Rican Airplane Hotel

If only Oceanic flight 815 had a talented carpenter on board, perhaps the survivors of the first plane crash on LOST could have lived it up in a stunning recycled airplane hotel like this one in Costa Rica. A wooden structure was built around the 1965 Boeing 727, making it an incredibly luxurious 2-bedroom suite [...]

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Tesco Greenwash: Turn Lights into Flights!

A British supermarket seems to have failed to grasp the concept of going green. You see, Tesco has unveiled a new program that rewards shoppers for purchasing compact fluorescent light bulbs – wiTesco Greenwash: Turn Lights into Flights!th airline miles.  The ‘Every little helps’ promotion is meant to urge shoppers to cut back on energy [...]

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Who’s Who in Green: Joss Garman

At 14 years old, Joss Garman read an article that detailed how the destruction of just a handful of a certain species of beetle could damage an entire ecosystem. That was enough to spur the young nature lover to seek ways that he could contribute to saving the environment, and when he sought out his [...]

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And the Winner of Cartoon Caption #4 Is…

Before the holidays we asked our faithful Earthfirst readers to write their own caption to the following cartoon created exclusively for us by Jerry King:

“Welcome to the Capitol Hill Hilton sir, we have the congressional-bailout suite reserved for you.”

We got a lot of great submissions and after much deliberation, the winner of the eco-friendly, stainless [...]

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