Tag: environmentalism
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September 04, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
The largest prairie dog colony was discovered in 1900 in TX; it was about 100 miles wide, 250 miles long, and home to an estimated 400 million rodents.
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February 09, 2008 09:34 AM EST --
Brian Cooley of CNet reports on the Tesla Roadster launch .
The quality is a bit grainy, but the subject excites those of us wanting electric cars.
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June 24, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
CNet has a great video out today on a new wrinkle in the plan for mass production of ethanol. From the site:
Turning wood chips into fuel
Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way . . . more
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June 24, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
According to their web page:
The Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on hazardous . . . more
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March 22, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
Free Recycling Through the Mail
U.S. Postal Service Starts Service in 1,500 Post Offices
WASHINGTON, DC -Free and green. Those are the goals of a pilot program launched today by the U.S. Postal . . . more
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August 11, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
During the Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee traveled everywhere with a pet chicken that supposedly laid an egg under his cot each morning for breakfast.
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March 08, 2008 12:16 AM EST --
France24 has an interesting article and video about new e-cars being presented at the show.
What are your impressions of the single-seat car? Would you be willing to drive it down a road at 70mph? . . . more
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May 29, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
Whether you want to just figure on some common ways of generating (and cutting back) on carbon emissions or just want to join people who don't quite believe manmade activities to be significant in . . . more
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June 28, 2008 09:16 AM EDT --
This summer may see first ice-free North Pole
By SETH BORENSTEIN - 15 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first . . . more
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April 26, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
Twenty-two years ago, today, Ukraine and the world experienced the meltdown of one reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility. Radiation was carried by prevailing winds across Europe, though the . . . more
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August 12, 2008 04:30 PM EDT --
ZDNet has a video segment of the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, where Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bill Green of Vantage Point Venture Partners, and moderator . . . more
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November 09, 2007 08:43 AM EST --
Dateline: Ongoing
This intrepid reporter has uncovered a most disgusting conspiracy. Crazed environmentalists are getting desperate for allies. Although various corporate groups have joined the cause, . . . more
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April 16, 2008 05:16 PM EDT --
I found a link to this article in an e-mail that Circuit City sent to me. It offers some pretty useful tips on conservation (both in the economic and financial senses).
3 tricks for going green . . . more
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March 05, 2008 10:39 AM EST --
Merriam-Webster defines environmentalism this way:
1: a theory that views environment rather than heredity as the important factor in the development and especially the cultural and intellectual . . . more
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April 22, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
I recently came on an interesting site for swapping books, CDs and DVDs.
Swaptree was founded in 2004. You join, enter UPC codes of the articles you want to exchange, and their site attempts to find . . . more
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May 19, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
Nissan Motors has announced that it is targeting release of an all-electric car in 2010. Partnered with NEC, it has said the announcement has waited while plans were strengthened for battery production. . . . more
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June 12, 2008 08:16 PM EDT --
Two upcoming electronic recycling events
The EarthWorks Expo , June 21-22 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, will be the site of another even, handled by G&S Mountain Recycling of Longmont. . . . more
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June 13, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
Update: noon EDT
Official results confirm that Irish voters have rejected the European Union's Lisbon treaty by a 53.4% majority.
RTE, the major broadcast news source in Ireland, has projected . . . more
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June 17, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
Honda Motor Co. began producing a next-generation fuel cell vehicle, the FCX Clairty, on Monday June 16, 2008. It hopes this latest entry in a series of fuel cell vehicles will move hydrogen-fueled . . . more
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March 29, 2008 08:24 PM EDT --
"Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the natural environment , both for its own sake as well as its importance . . . more
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