A bee flies by a field in Kansas.
Photo: Sam Fuhr
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By TDG Community
Bombus franklini, a North American bumblebee, was last seen on August 9, 2006. Professor Emeritus Robbin Thorp, an entomologist at UC Davis, was doing survey work on Mt. Ashland in Oregon when he saw a single worker on a flower, Sulphur eriogonum, near ...read more
Coyote Springs Land Company And a new home for solar power.
What to do when building a 159,000-home city in the Nevada desert and the housing market collapses?
Go solar.
The Coyote Springs Land Company this week expanded a deal with BrightSource Energy, a solar power developer based in Oakland, Calif., to carve out 12 square miles ...read more
When it comes to reducing CO2, we almost always talk about power plants and vehicles. But a new study by the EPA (pdf) shows that, if you consider the whole life-cycle, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions (42%) are caused by the way people in the US “procure, produce, deliver and dispose of goods ...read more
I’m always amazed by the number of folks who think that most of Central Park is some kind of natural habitat of indigenous plants, a pristine terrain onto which we plunked our bike paths, boathouses and pretzel vendors.
In reality, nearly every square inch of Central Park was painstakingly landscaped back in the mid-nineteenth century to ...read more
Where is the SCANDAL?
Where is the news?
“Now it has come to light the real reason”.
Monsanto prohibits any testing on its Gmo and it is backed up by the law: APPALLING!
Excerpts:
“One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in ...read more
From Green Right Now Reports
Call it a sign of the times. The PNC Financial Services Group has unveiled the largest green wall in North America as a unique way to make its Pittsburgh headquarters building more energy-efficient.
(Photo: PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | PR Newswire)
The 2,380-square foot, soil-based wall is similar in size to a ...read more
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By Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
EarthTalk is a Q&A column from E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: How can I make good use of the rainwater that runs down my roof and into my gutters? – Brian Smith, Nashua, NH
For most of us, the rain that falls on our roof runs off into the ground ...read more
Well, the key word here is bank. They are not in this for philanthropic reasons. Why people continue to think they serve any other real purpose but to keep developing countries in the developing stage in order to keep the rich countries rich escapes me.
Excerpt:
The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new coal-fired ...read more
The Associated Press How can salmon and hydroelectric dams coexist on the Columbia and Snake Rivers?
The Obama administration went back to court in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday in an attempt to convince a judge that eight hydroelectric plants currently producing power on the Columbia and Snake Rivers can coexist with 13 populations of salmon and ...read more
The proposed layout of the Wixom plant as a green energy center. (Ford photo)
No mistake, the recession has ravaged the auto industry. Ford, for instance, has 14 idled assembly plants in North America, and it has closed five since 2005. That’s the bad news. The good news is that some of them are being reborn ...read more
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