Images: + Pool

A giant floating pool just off the riverside of Manhattan - for swimming and also filters and cleans the water? Why not? That's what a group of designers and architects are proposing in + Pool, a multi-purpose pool and urban revitalization concept that is in the shape of - you guessed it - a plus sign.

photo: Geof Wilson

Once we've gotten our priorities straight regarding reducing the massive amount of oil we use in transportation--largely because we've built our communities into places where most people need to drive rather than walk,

photo: Shannon Bullard/Go San Diego Card Blog via flickr

President Obama has signed an executive order adopting the

That's 24 minutes right there...

Oh! Moving, graphic and informative all at the same the same time!

Oil spill cleanup vehicle photo: US Coast Guard via flickr

Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a

Mountaintop removal mine in Kentucky, photo: iLoveMountains.org via flickr.

One more item that probably would've made more headlines had there not been a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I know I missed it until now): As

As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a

After Years of Saying it Can't be Done
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI, formerly the Soap and Detergent Association), represents most of the soap-makers in the U.S., has announced a voluntary ban on phosphates in household dishwasher detergents.

Poop in the river is something Chicago can get behind. Image credit:Photobucket, scubastza

Chicago is claiming that USEPA should not force the City to separate sewers and disinfect combined storm water and sewerage discharges that otherwise will go into area river channels.