With Support from Bill McKibben and Michael Pollan, Campus Food Co-op Project Set to Launch Nationwide
January 18, 2011 No Comment
Image: cofed.org Thursday marks a big day for the future of food on college campuses around the country. Bill McKibben , Michael Pollan , and Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel are part of the launch committee that will help the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, or CoFed, empower students to establish co-ops stocked with ethically-sourced an… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Russian Oil Platform Plans Threaten Already Critically Endangered Gray Whales (Again)
January 18, 2011 No Comment
An update on the months-old story of oil exploration off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island near feeding grounds of critically endangered Western North Pacific Gray Whales : Sakhalin Energy Investment Company , part owned by Shell, has announced plans to build a major new oil platform in these waters. WWF explains that the construction and operation of the oil platform could potentially disrupt the feeding behavior of these whales and increase the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I’ve hit that wall that happens to me every year around about this time where I look at the fresh vegetables available to me ibn Ontario, like cabbage , parsnips , carrots and celeriac , and I can’t imagine wanting to cook anything using them. I usually snap out of it after a week or so, but I’m having trouble planning my meals because nothing is appealing. Then… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Wikipedia We’ve heard of giant snails used as a great food source for undernourished communities , and even used as a way to save gorillas . But now, can the miracle creature also help Russia with air pollution problems?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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XXXTREME ALTERNATIVE ENERGY!!!!11 Not exactly hard green news, but this video of mental patients adrenaline junkies base jumping off wind turbines is pretty cool. Most of them seem to be jumping off th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Boqiang Liao / Creative Commons We reported on the beginnings of this over two years ago : Finished last November 12th but just now being made public, the Zangmu Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Zangbo (known farther down its course in India and Bangladesh as the Brahmap… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Canada’s National Post has a great infographics department , and comes up with this clever comparison of an average human stomach to Starbuck’s new 916 millilitre Trenta Cup, that is creeping up on the Big Slurpee. (1.18 litre). … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images credit Stephen Holl Ronald Rael of Earth Architecture shows us yet another great example of rammed earth construction. It’s only one of the oldest building materials known to humanity, its main ingredient is as cheap as dirt, it doesn’t get any more local and it is gorgeous to look at, particularly in the hands of an architect as talented as Steven Holl. He has used it at the Nanjing Museum of Art and Arch… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: mybulldog / Creative Commons Last year, Sweden ended a 45 year ban on wolf hunting , allowing 27 wolves to be killed during a short open season. The goal was to control the animal’s population by reducing it from 237 individuals to 210. This year, the hunt has commenced once again, this time with an allotment for 20 wolves. In the first two days of the hunt, 14 wolves have been killed—and… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Republicans Introduce Bill That Kills Historic Preservation Funding (Along with Public Broadcasting)
January 18, 2011 No Comment
Back in February, we wrote Preservationists Outraged As Obama Cancels Building Restoration Programs . The programs survived because they created 16,000 jobs at very low cost; Donovan Rypkema calculated it at 1/18th the cost of jobs created in the stimulus programs. Now the Republicans are at it, proposing to cut Save America’s Treasures and Pre… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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