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“Healthy Rivers Alternative” better than NISP

Berthoud Recorder by Staff Fort Collins, CO – Today, Save the Poudre: Poudre Waterkeeper outlined many of the economic benefits that the “Healthy Rivers Alternative” would provide to northern Colorado cities.  The Healthy Rivers Alternative offers a plan for a water supply alternative for subscribers to the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) that better protects […]

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Central Library renews environment via green roof

There are always exciting things going on in Milwaukee Public Library’s Downtown Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave. But, these days, there is also some excitement on the building’s roof, too. When the library needed to replace its 25-year-old roof last year, instead of going for a conventional roof, a 30,000-square foot green roof was

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Students find many ways to preserve the environment

The Daily Tribune Mount Clemens, MI by Staff Published: Friday, May 20, 2011 Students, staff and parents at a couple of Royal Oak schools deserve congratulations for their efforts to protect the environment and learn about it in the process. Keller Elementary was named the most environmentally responsible school in Oakland County at the 2011

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East Portland Sunday Parkways: Family & Community

Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor bikeportland.org) on May 22nd, 2011 at 6:26 pmSunday East Portland did a stellar job kicking off the Sunday Parkways season. The weather held up for the most part, with just a light drizzle hitting just before the end of the event. The turnout wasn’t the full-street mobs we’ve seen at Parkways

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Brazil forms ‘crisis cabinet’ following unexpected deforestation surge

Government vows to ‘suffocate environmental crime’ after 27% rise in Amazon deforestation in a year Hundreds of environmental protection officers are being deployed in the Brazilian Amazon after government satellites detected a sudden, unexpected surge in deforestation. On Wednesday, Brazil‘s environment minister Izabella Teixeira announced the creation of a “crisis cabinet” to crackdown on illegal logging in

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The shale gas boom: Energy exploration in Carolina

The Fayetteville Observer Published: 07:03 AM, Sun May 22, 2011 By Michael Futch Staff writer For now, state geologists are finished with their research in central North Carolina. After studying 59,000 acres in the Deep River basin for 15 years, they have concluded that Lee, Chatham and Moore counties could produce enough natural gas from

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Don’t buy false choice between environment and jobs

By Rosanne Camunez / For the Sun-News Posted: 05/22/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT As someone who works hard at my New Mexico small business, I am frankly growing weary of Congressman Steve Pearce’s attacks on our state’s clean water and wild places under the false assertion that protecting New Mexico’s vital resources costs jobs. In the past

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Students learn about environment the hard way – by cleaning it up

“Get some gloves and pick a partner,” Tom Tokar yelled, standing on the water-sodden lawn near Ahern Stadium in a small curve along Newark Bay. Students from Bayonne High School grabbed a pair of white gloves left in a pile on the lawn, then marched down a narrow path to a 60-yard-long beach, which rain

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Why do Earth Ethics matter?

The purpose of this Earth Ethics Discussion Forum is to promote the discussion of what Earth Ethics are and how to use them in our everyday life. Although not limited to high school and college students, this “open source” project to help create and define Earth Ethics and it’s implementation, is primarily driven these young

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