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Basketball on an Aircraft Carrier: Sports in Strange Places

5:09 am in almosts, boats, Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation, competition, reusability, sporting goods by TreeHugger

css vinson photo Photo: navsource Basketballs aweigh! There seems to be a trend for sports in strange places. Call it marketing, call it wretched excess, call it college football on the aircraft carrier used to bury Osama bin Laden at sea. The Carrier Classic will feature Michigan State playing the University of North Carolina on Veterans Day, November 11, on the top deck of the USS Carl Vinson which will be moored off the coast of the U.S. Naval Base in San Diego. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Can a Conceptual Garden Win a Prize?

5:12 am in competition, gardeners, gardens, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

dan lobb photo Photo: dan lobb The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the little sister to the Chelsea Flower Show. It is smaller, less formal and has a country feel. Think Prince Harry: a little wild and crazy but still royal. The Show has different categories of gardens: show, small and english poet's but it is unique in having a category called "conceptual". Hard to define, and open to controversy, it seems to be a garden t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Olympic Basketball Arena is a Collapsible Flatpack

5:00 am in competition, cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, recycled building materials, recycled construction materials, sustainabile by TreeHugger

basket ball photo Photo: london2012 The new venues for London's 2012 Olympics are rolling out faster than you can say "no tickets" which is another story, but first the basketball stadium... Designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and KSS design, the arena is collapsible and can be taken apart after the Games, to be used elsewhere (Rio's Games?). We love IKEA, but where's the architecture? ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chelsea Flower Show Opens with a Blast (of Wind)

5:12 am in competition, gardeners, sustainable, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

que bee photo Photo: B. Alter This year's Chelsea Flower Show in London has been beset by a series of natural problems. First there was the unseasonable cold weather, then the unseasonable warm weather, then the rain drought. But opening day featured glorious sun and celebrities, albeit with gale force winds. That didn't stop this year's show, now in its 98th year, from being as big (with 17 gardens competing for top prizes) and beautiful as ever. The themes: "wild" rather than formal, vertical green walls, lots of insect habitats, roof gardens and a series of 7 natural and sustainable sma...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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