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Scraper Bikes: Saving Kids’ Lives and "Going Green in The ‘Hood"

Image: Know Your Meme Some time ago, we took at look at the “scraper bikes” sensation — customized, ‘tricked-out’ wheels which seem to be somewhere in between a flashy low-rider and a Burning Man-esque art bike — but with an important ecological and social mission in mind. What began as a local trend in a inner-city neighbourhood of Oakland, California has now spread to far-flung locales like Germany and Japan thanks to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scraper Bikes: Saving Kids’ Lives and "Going Green in The ‘Hood"

Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms

A hoop pine monoculture plantation in Australia. Credit: Dr. John Kanowski. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Australian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations — or big

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Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms