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China Watch: Plastic Bag Ban Trumps Market and Consumer Efforts
China's recent plastic bag ban has been immediately accepted by consumers. In a country where billions of plastic bags are used each day, the government's top-down policy move will likely benefit the country's environment and energy security well before market forces or consumer-led efforts are able to achieve similar impact.
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Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore EvergladesClewiston, Fla. - In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation. |
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Vegan farming takes organic to next levelALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors, who tilled the same soil centuries before. |
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Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland
The Bush administration on Friday proposed keeping potentially oil-rich wetlands in Arctic Alaska off-limits to drilling because of their ecological sensitivity, a reversal of its earlier plan.
The Bureau of Land Management proposed a 10-year leasing moratorium for 430,000 acres of wetlands north and east of vast Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Environmentalists and local groups hailed the decision.
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Architects’ Home and Office is Less Than Eight Feet WideAntwerp, Belgium - So often the space between buildings is just wasted, a source of heat loss and little else. |
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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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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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Losing More of the Plastic Paunch at Whole Foods
In addition to the magical plastic bag disappearing act that took place on Earth Day at Whole Foods stores around the nation, the company has also tightened the belt on another major use of plastic—to go containers.
Instead of the usual plastic, cardboard, or styrofoam (gasp!) containers found in most supermarket self-service food sections, Whole Foods customers now pile their ready-made salads and other such sundries into completely compostable containers.
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VIDEO: Private Rain Forests Touted
After decades of deforestation, conservationists have hit upon an innovative plan to preserve Brazilian rain forests?by encouraging landowners to create private, legally protected nature reserves.
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evironmental news headlines
- Dutch city kept warm by hot-water mines
- Newly-discovered fungus strips pollutants from oil
- Brazilian Air Force Flies Penguins South
- Hundreds of New Marine Species Found
- Wind, Solar Tax Credits Extended in $700 Billion Bail-Out
- Raglan leading the way towards an eco-friendly society
- Mitsubishi Electric to Start Plastics Recycling Plant
- Calgary team shows how to scrub CO2 from the air
- Black rhinos released into wild
- California launches broad effort to control hazardous chemicals
- Interbike: Cool urban bikes
- Judge overturns decision on gray wolves
- Wind power dollars pour into west Texas economy
- First solar panels installed on Vatican roof
- German churches repent for green sins in bid to cut carbon footprint
- Bulgaria launches CO2 registry to kick off trade
- Sahara Solar Scheme Could Power Poor West Africa
- Hoteliers go green to save the planet
- To slow global warming, install white roofs
- Chrysler to Sell Electric Cars in U.S. as Early as 2010
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