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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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Cubs a ray of hope in India’s fight to save tigersRanthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India - Fourteen tiger cubs have been spotted in a leading Indian sanctuary, a rare piece of good news in the country's fight to protect its dwindling population of big cats from poachers and habitat destruction. The cubs have been sighted regularly over the past few weeks in Ranthambore National Park in western Rajasthan, R.N. Mehrotra, the state's chief wildlife warden, told Reuters on Tuesday. |
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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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Superior to undergo major tree planting for urban forestSuperior, Wisconsin, USA - Superior is looking at sprucing up the city's north end, and might do it with spruce trees. |
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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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Officer stops traffic for duckling crossingLakewood, Oregon, USA - Lakewood Police Officer Dustin Carrell stopped traffic on westbound SR-512 Monday morning near I-5 to help a mother duck and her ducklings safely cross the road. |
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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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