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Let's Ban the Bead! - The Story of Stuff Project. No matter where you live, there are ways to take action to protect our waterways and put a stop to polluting plastic microbeads!

Let's Ban the Bead! - The Story of Stuff Project

Let us know where you’re based and we’ll connect you with the action that’ll have the most impact to help ban the bead. Take action now to get these billions of tiny plastic particles out of our Stuff, out of our waterways, and out of our waterways! Do you live in the US? Select your state: This 2-minute short takes on plastic microbeads—the nasty little bits of plastic that companies have been putting in everything from body washes and hand soaps to toothpaste and make up. PETA shatters Jane Birkin’s glossy Birkin bag fantasy. Now, she wants out. This 2007 photo taken in New York shows an employee holding a crocodile-skin Hermes Birkin bag during a private opening of the new Hermes store on Wall Street.

PETA shatters Jane Birkin’s glossy Birkin bag fantasy. Now, she wants out.

(Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images file) The most coveted Birkin bags, sold by luxury French retailer Hermès, cost more than most Americans make in a year. California's Drought Is So Bad Some People Are Painting Their Lawns Green. Hs. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos. Sivilisaatiomme voi romahtaa parissa vuosikymmenessä – mitä siitä jää muistomerkiksi? - Riku Rantalan kolumnit - Matka - Helsingin Sanomat. New Orleans ten years after Hurricane Katrina - where is it now? Today marks the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall on the Louisiana coast, wreaking havoc throughout the gulf and notoriously causing a breach of the levees which were supposed to protect New Orleans.

New Orleans ten years after Hurricane Katrina - where is it now?

I won’t sit here and hypothesize on whether that breach was intentional or whether officials were at least complicit, instead I want to focus on where New Orleans is now, and where it should be. A few weeks ago I went to New Orleans to volunteer with lowernine.org on rebuilding houses in the lower ninth ward. I was only able to stay a week unfortunately, but it’s amazing how much work can be done on a house in a week’s time. Dear Future Generations: Sorry. 21 Photos Of Nature Winning The Battle Against Civilization. You might have to plant the flowers in your backyard to see some green action, but plants will grow from just about anywhere if you give them enough time.

21 Photos Of Nature Winning The Battle Against Civilization

If you abandoned your home today and returned many years later, you might find trees growing right out of your bedroom walls, and plants the size of beanstalks shooting straight up out of your floorboards. Plants are incredibly resilient, and can grow from the most unlikely places so long as they have a source of sun and water. These man-made objects, buildings, and entire cities are no match for the rapid growth of plant life. Check out these unbelievable photos of nature wining the battle against civilization. The Bicycle Tree. Funland - Téléchargements mobiles. Nature Is Speaking. They Brought Wolves To Yellowstone, But They Had No Idea This Would Be The Result. Names of Animals, Babies and Groups- EnchantedLearning.com.

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years.