Green Living
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submitted by JKM for team Green Living 156 weeks 2 days 19 hours 35 minutes ago
Sound and images as poor Kenyans eye green riches
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 157 weeks 8 hours 52 minutes ago
Chinese officials told the state media that birth defects are increasing at an alarming rate and that a major reason was degradation of the environment.
"The number of newborns with birth defects is constantly increasing in both urban and rural areas," Jiang Fan, vice minister of the...(more)
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submitted by JKM for team Green Living 156 weeks 2 days 19 hours 40 minutes ago
Four out of five people say they are still buying green products and services
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submitted by Bert for team Green Living 235 weeks 1 day 1 hour 6 minutes ago
Until recently, nuclear power seemed to be making its way back into public favour in Germany. A warm winter, and dire warnings by scientists about climate change, convinced many that carbon emissions might be a bigger danger than nuclear accidents or radioactive waste. Opinion polls this...(more)
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submitted by enikhanjohorns for team Green Living 126 weeks 6 days 5 hours 38 minutes ago
This perspective is much less comfortable to face than the one presented by Al Gore, civilization—as it has for the duration of its ten thousand years of fascism and genocide—offers only two options: Collective resistance or death. How the colonized captives of civilization respond does not...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 88 weeks 4 days 47 minutes ago
The concept of peak oil, where the inaccessibility of remaining deposits ensures that extraction rates start an irreversible decline, has been the subject of regular debate for decades. Although that argument still hasn't been settled—estimates range from the peak already having passed us to its arrival...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 86 weeks 13 hours 43 minutes ago
A tour of the ecovillage at Findhorn -- it demonstrates the power of an enlightened view of what local means.
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 186 weeks 5 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
For many residents of this liberal bastion, President Bush's name is mud. Now activists here want to make that moniker stick.
A group calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco this week submitted a proposal to rename a local sewage treatment plant after the outgoing...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours 4 minutes ago
The Bluebird of Happiness has a new gig. Now it's the Bluebird of Ecosystem Services.
That would be the western bluebird, a widespread California native. This colorful little thrush nests in tree cavities, often moving in after the original property developer, a woodpecker, has moved out. New...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 175 weeks 22 hours 35 minutes ago
Warning on lead fallout at gun clubs
For 40 years on clear mornings, avid shooters have turned out at the Petaluma Trap and Skeet Club for the sport of popping away at clay pigeons hurled into the air.
The western Sonoma County range looks idyllic with hawks and...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown for team Green Living 160 weeks 2 days 8 hours 14 minutes ago
While Detroit's automakers struggle to rebuild their sputtering operations, the key to jump-starting Michigan's economy may lie 80 miles northwest of the Motor City.
This is the home of Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. It makes a material crucial for constructing photovoltaic panels. And that has turned this snow-covered...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 55 weeks 2 days 17 hours 47 minutes ago
Californians may end up paying the highest electricity rates in the country to charge their electric vehicles, a new study says.
The state's tiered rate system, in which customers are charged higher rates as they use more electricity, could make plug-in hybrid and battery-powered vehicles more costly...(more)
