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Trading Tractors for CamelsRajasthan, India - Farmers in Rajasthan, India are forsaking their gas-guzzling tractors and returning to using their trusty camels for haulage. |
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Waste Management To Fuel CA Trucks With Landfill-Harvested Liquid Natural GasAltamont, California, USA - California government agencies are supporting a large-scale project to better manage garbage and recyclables in a California joint venture between Linde North America, a Linde Group subsidiary, and Waste Management. |
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Tornado-flattened Kansas town is coming back greenerGreensburg, Kansas, USA - A year after it was practically wiped off the map by a tornado, Greensburg is rising again -- and going green, too, with solar panels, wind turbines, tinted windows, water-saving toilets and other energy-efficient technology. |
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Portland earns a Platinum rating from the League of American BicyclistsPortland, Oregon, USA - The League of American Bicyclists has awarded Portland its highest honor, a Platinum rating. |
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Fire From the Dragon: Green Entrepreneur Harnesses Truck EnergyOakland, California, USA - It came to Terry Kenney while he was sleeping -- a crystal clear vision of an apparatus that would harness the kinetic energy of gargantuan, smoke-spewing trucks to light up homes and businesses with energy that was safe, renewable, and completely clean. |
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Gov. Celebrates Irvine Ranch Land, Designated as 1st-Ever ‘California Natural Landmark’Irvine, California, USA - Describing the land around her as a "majestic natural landmark," California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman today announced that of the 50,000 acres permanently preserved on the historic Irvine Ranch, almost 40,000 have been designated as the first-ever California Natural Landmark (CNL). |
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Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYCNew York City, New York, USA - We love vertical farms and while they may not be as practical as green roofs, the idea of food being grown right in the city doesn't get any more local than this. |
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The Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costsMumbai, India - Many respected engineers have been trying for years to bring a compressed air car to market, believing strongly that compressed air can power a viable "zero pollution" car. |
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The real Good Life: An entire village turns against supermarkets and grows its own foodMartin, England, UK - It was a sitcom that inspired many a household to live off the land. |
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EU considers truck pollution chargesEurope - EU countries would be allowed to charge heavy road users for the costs they incur on society, including congestion, air pollution and noise - something prohibited by EU law up till now - according to an early draft of a Commission proposal to revise its 'Eurovignette Directive'. |
evironmental news headlines
- Trading Tractors for Camels
- Cubs a ray of hope in India’s fight to save tigers
- Waste Management To Fuel CA Trucks With Landfill-Harvested Liquid Natural Gas
- Tornado-flattened Kansas town is coming back greener
- Superior to undergo major tree planting for urban forest
- Portland earns a Platinum rating from the League of American Bicyclists
- Officer stops traffic for duckling crossing
- Fire From the Dragon: Green Entrepreneur Harnesses Truck Energy
- Gov. Celebrates Irvine Ranch Land, Designated as 1st-Ever ‘California Natural Landmark’
- Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC
- The Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costs
- Losing More of the Plastic Paunch at Whole Foods
- The real Good Life: An entire village turns against supermarkets and grows its own food
- EU considers truck pollution charges
- Airline flies slower to cut costs
- Regrowing the rainforest
- VIDEO: Private Rain Forests Touted
- U.S. Leads World in Wind-Power Growth
- States court presidential hopefuls on CO2
- Fake concrete bat roosts reclaim rainforest
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