It seems to some of us Gen Xers that celebrating Earth Day -- and any other holiday -- just ain't the same as it used to be back in our decade of Smashing Pumpkins, store-bought tie-dye sundresses and lesbian chic. But if we learned anything from surviving the '90s, it's that trends are fluid -- we also learned that John Cusack and patchouli are both awesome, but in totally different ways -- and we are free to bring them back whenever the mood or the bong rip hits.

In honor of Earth Day, here are ten ways to celebrate Earth Day '90s-style. And remember: "Puff puff, give. Puff puff, give. You fuckin' up the rotation!"

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Brace yourselves.

Game of Thrones Season 2 is coming.

Game of Thrones, HBO's latest popular series that's been described as sort of The Sopranos meets Lord of the Rings, debuts its second season Sunday night, but Denver-area viewers can get a sneak peek of the new series tonight.

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By now your Facebook page has probably exploded with friends' posts of the viral video Kony2012. If you're one of the few who hasn't yet seen the video or read the hash tag on Twitter, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda. He's been terrorizing Uganda and Southern Sudan since 1987, claiming to be a medium of the Holy Spirit.

So, obviously, Joseph Kony is a terrible man.

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In the past three months, Civic Center Park has been lived in, spray-painted on, used as a venue for First Amendment freedoms and even set on fire during its tenure as the physical and ideological home to Occupy Denver. This month, the well-loved and well-used park earned national attention on a more positive scale: Thanks to a recent $9.5 million restoration, Civic Center Park has been named Masonry Construction Project of the Year by Masonry Construction Magazine.

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When Women's Bean Project was hiring in June, over 150 women showed up hoping to find work and career training. Only twenty of them were hired. Bean Project hopes to provide jobs for women who can't find them. Many have to rely on welfare. Some have a hard time overcoming past felonies.

"These are women with skills who really want to work," says Bean Project's Brittny Wilson. However, Bean Project just doesn't have more positions. They could though, if they have more sales.

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Sublime's "Santeria" is playing over the speakers at Fallen Owl Tattoo when owner and artist Adam Rose introduces himself, his shop and his mission: "We're a solid old-school shop, and we have old-school values. We're very focused on the children." In the flier for the West Colfax studio's latest project, that idea is depicted literally: Two toddlers play with a toy train while showing off full-body tats.

It's a little unsettling, but its heart -- Rose's heart -- is in the right place.

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According to the Department of Defense, members of the American military committed suicide at the rate of one every 36 hours between 2005 and 2010.

Ten years into the war in the Middle East, with troops officially set to exit Iraq in January, the problem of service members returning home deeply scarred from their experiences in combat is becoming a more critical issue every day. And the independent movie Poster Girl, the directorial debut of Sarah Nesson, who will be present at tomorrow night's screening at the Mercury Cafe, aims to make that clear to everyone.

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The Bureau of Land Management's efforts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands -- supposedly for their own good -- has generated outrage among mustang advocates across the country, as well as numerous YouTube glimpses of the brutality of the roundups. Now a documentary having its Denver premiere at the Starz Film Festival this Friday digs deeper to show how the BLM is messing with one herd in southwest Colorado, in the aptly named Disappointment Valley.

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As National Domestic Violence Awareness month comes to a close, Girl Scouts of Colorado, Midchix.com and several other local women's health and support organizations are pulling together for the Colorado Clothesline Project, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at Saint John's Cathedral, 1350 Washington Street.

Females of all ages are invited to come to Saint John's and decorate a T-shirt, which will be added to the Colorado Clothesline.

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In 1998, near Española, New Mexico, someone severed the foot from a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate with a saw. The statue honored the man who had served as New Mexico's first Spanish colonial governor, from 1598 to 1608. Española, about 150 miles from Acoma, was celebrating its 400th anniversary at the time.

Vandalism or was there something else at play?

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