positive Land news
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Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to BothMona Webster, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived in Edinburgh and died in August at 96, had a love of birds, and warblers in particular — of the human kind. |
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Macedonia in Massive Reforestation EffortThousands of Macedonians including local athletes, pop stars, actors and politicians joined forces Friday to plant trees all over the country. |
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VisionWorks Award 2009: Big Prizes for Vertical Gardens, Bacteria Packaging and MoreCongrats to Manuel Dreesmann who received the first prize at this year's VisionWorks Award -- Cargopacks 2020. |
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New Green Jobs Don’t Require College DegreeAs solar incentives kick off during Energy Awareness Month, new jobs are opening up all across the nation. |
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Would you go vegetarian for the planet?Eating meat wastes resources and fuels climate change versus it’s about reduction and sustainable production. What's your opinion? |
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Disney Spends $7 Million to Conserve Forests in Peru, Congo, USAThe Walt Disney Company, which for 60 years has portrayed the glories of nature in film, today announced a $7 million investment to protect forests in the United States, in the Peruvian Amazon and in the Congo Basin. |
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Prehistory ‘offers climate lessons’An ancient civilisation which caused its own demise through forest clearance offers "important lessons for our management of fragile, arid areas", a report has claimed. |
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A group of German private companies is aiming to harvest sunlight from the Sahara desert and use it to power European homes and businesses.
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SOM Wins Competition to Create Beijing’s Sustainable City CenterSkidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was recently awarded the contract to create a stunning new Central Business District in Beijing. |
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The Plow & Hearth(R) Campaign to Reforest America(R) Reaches GoalThe Plow & Hearth(R) Campaign to Reforest America®, a yearlong reforestation effort launched by the company last October has reached its goal of donating one million trees to be planted in locations across the country. |
evironmental news headlines
- Huge growth at largest wind farm
- Govt ups ante against illegal logging, mining and plantations
- Sunny Delight Achieves Zero Waste in U.S.
- Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building
- EPA to issue more rules in climate fight
- U.S. Proposes Grading Cars On Emissions, Efficiency
- NYC sky-scrapers dim lights to help migratory birds
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
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