Ready for some art. The end of Dubai Creek is site #1 for the Land Art Generator Initiative competition. The United Arab Emirates have made their wealth from oil, a fossil fuel environmentalists are trying to consign to the past, but if two American artists have their way, these Persian Gulf states will become pioneers of a new source of power: art installations that generate...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image: Metropolis, Original Film Poster, UFA Do you know which film inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? Or gave Superman's home its name? It is Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Lang produced his epic silent film in the brief period of stability and astounding intellectual productivity between the two world wars known as the Weimar Culture. With a budget equivalent to over $200 million in modern currency, Metropolis was the mega-blockbuster of 1927. But the film was to...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo credit: Getty Images. With over a million left homeless and its capital city all but destroyed, Haiti is set to become the focus of an enormous rebuilding effort. Internationally, many are calling for a full-fledged "Marshall Plan" to rebuild the country, lasting at least a decade and costing billions of dollars. Moves this weekend to cancel its debts, while funding rebuilding efforts with grants, instead of more loans, are a positive...Read the full story on TreeHugger

courtesy via www.americanpika.org A woman I work with has the sound of an American Pika as her ringtone. It's a high-pitch squeal recognizable to anyone who has heard it before, and she has it on her phone to draw attention to the plight of the Pika, a small furry creature under threat from climate change. The Pika needs help, but it won't be getting it from the Fish and Wildlife Service, which Friday rejected a ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit:Concord, North Carolina North Carolina now bans the landfilling of plastic bottles of all types - more information here - and this has become a practical issue in rural towns where curbside recycling is not offered. Winston-Salem Journal reports on how the problem was solved in one County. The president of Rural Garbage Services Inc. offered to pick them up for f...Read the full story on TreeHugger