Tag: conservation
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May 18, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
Since I moved into my neighborhood in a small, somewhat tired eastern city, it has been slowly divested of its tree population. There are now less than half the number of trees in the 2 block radius . . .
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October 26, 2007 06:16 PM EDT --
I have a car and I could have jumped in it and driven the 1.5 miles to my grocery store to pick up my prescription and some bread. So why did I chose to walk? Well for one thing walking is . . .
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April 01, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
When the World was a lot larger than it now is, when communications took months to get to their destination, when transport within countries sometimes took weeks to arrive at its intended . . .
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February 10, 2009 09:15 AM EST --
I got this from our electric company's website. I thought perhaps it would help some of you. I know one of my major problems is that I have old windows. Well, I just can't replace . . .
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September 22, 2008 08:50 AM EDT --
To those forward-thinking "Gatherites" in Minnesota, Colorado and North Carolina (especially.) These are 3 of the most beautiful states in the U.S, please read, and memorize . . .
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November 18, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
The following is an ariticle I wrote over the summer while I was a contributing writer for an online website. The polar bear's situation is indeed a grave one, and sadly I don't . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:39 PM EST --
36,709 people have now signed up to participate in Earth Hour on March 29.... you are one of them, right? Of course you are - I knew that :)
How'd we do on last week's challenge? Water . . .
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June 21, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
My husband is so awesome! I printed off the directions on How to Make Your Own Rainbarrel and he adapted them to make one for me!
I purchased this 33 gal. garbage can and a roll of screening . . .
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October 21, 2007 12:25 AM EDT --
In theory, most of us would like to help the environment, preserve the world’s natural beauty, and generally make this planet a better place to live.
In practice, we don’t necessarily . . .
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February 25, 2008 03:07 AM EST --
God's Own Country Two
When Willhem de Vlamingh sailed down the South coast of what is now called Australia he wasn't particularly impressed. What he saw was an empty , uninhabited . . .
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October 14, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
The following is an article that I wrote when I was a contributing writer for an online website. If you grew up on the beaches of the Mid Atlantic you are probably aware of the conservation . . .
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September 04, 2006 09:36 PM EDT --
Did you know that if you eat a typical American diet, walking generates mroe carbon dioxide emissions than driving? Yes indeed, if you count the calories you expend by walking, and calculate out how much . . .
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July 09, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
Warning: This article will probably make me a few enemies.
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A few years ago, Wall Street Journal journalist Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg wrote a telling article regarding the dirty little . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:14 PM EDT --
See if this makes any sense to you, because it sure doesn't to me!
Living in the desert, dust is a big issue since it's usually very dry and there is a lot of dirt as you may imagine. . . .
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January 27, 2009 06:48 PM EST --
It may have started with the neighbor lady five houses down. She had some of the loveliest gladiolas, camelias and irises I have ever seen, but it is her roses I still remember fondly. . . .
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November 15, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
Since this one throwaway comment in another thread sparked so much discussion, I decided to give it its own topic.
Feel free to throw in your own thoughts.
Spotted owls, we were told a decade ago, . . .
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January 28, 2008 05:49 AM EST --
Great film on YouTube:
Tatanka is Going Home
A herd of American Bison (Tatanka) are sent back to the Lakota in South Dakota, Sponsored by the Catalina Island Conservancy, Catalina Island . . .
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March 31, 2009 01:42 PM EDT --
As some of you know, I am looking to relocate soon. I've been in an area, for a while, where I've been fortunate enough to have well water. In fact, it's been long enough since I last dealt . . .
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February 19, 2009 03:34 PM EST --
In 1933, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression. As part of the New Deal, on March 31 of that year, Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Emergency Conservation . . .
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July 22, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
A man named John Kanzius has announced that he can “burn” salt water by applying radio-frequency radiation to it. The media have picked this up and are proclaiming to the world that the . . .
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