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How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)

Photo via CMAFDA At what may have been the most interesting session at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative — a discussion with leaders from big business and nonprofit orgs on how to find market solutions for protecting the environment — Dr. Sanjayan, the lead scientist of the Nature Conservancy, discussed his agency’s promising large-scale project to turn combating water crises around the world with market-based ‘water protection’ plans. The video after the jump explains: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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LCV Launches ‘Flat Earth TV’ Featuring Sarah Palin

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

image via flickr With the rise of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, it’s become clear that every Republican candidate for the “World’s Greatest Deliberating Body” is a global warming denier. The League of Conservation Voters is rightly concerned, and they’ve launched an online campaign to poke fun at the candidate and educate voters on the candidates’ positions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pacific Nation Kiribati ‘Sacrifices’ Itself To Create Largest Marine Heritage Site

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Map of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Image: www.phoenixislands.org Kiribati , a Pacific nation of 33 atolls and lying just barely two meters above sea level, is one of the countries that’s on the front-lines of climate change . With its very existence is threatened to be wiped out by rising waters, Kiribati recently made a unprecedented decision: despite its overwhelming dependence on fishing, by 2050 it will forbid it in over… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Predictive Software Aims to Save Endangered Zebras

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit: PRNewsFoto/IBM Knowing that a species is endangered is one thing, but knowing how to save it is a whole other problem. For the Grevy’s zebra, which has only 2,500 individuals left in the wild, how and why people hunt them. IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that Marwell Wildlife can use to collect huge amounts of complex information — such as what herdsmen think about the zebras, where the animals are located, why they hunt the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Should We Fear the Year of the Acorn?

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: BellaBim Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an “exceptionally large number of acorns ” dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Poison-Laced Mice Airdropped into Guam to Kill Tree Snakes (Video)

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Photobucket The above headline may seem to describe an overly imaginative kid’s overly ambitious idea for a science fair project. But no, it’s a plan conjured up and carried out by working conservationists in Guam. So when do poison-laced mice need to be parachuted from helicopters into natural forest under any circumstances? When you have a rampant, invasive species of tree snake to kill off, of course…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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90 Percent of Monterrey Bay Dolphins Plagued by Mysterious Lesions

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: cheetah100 /Flickr Just as scientists make forward progress towards a cure for the contagious face-eating cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils , an outbreak of mysterious skin lesions has spread through at least on population of bottle-nosed dolphins…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Week in Animal Photos: Warrior Worms, Asian Unicorns, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Philadelphia Zoo Take a trip through the week’s biggest animal news stories — from warrior worms to the birth of a rare baby aye-aye and the sad news on a incredibly rare Asian unicorn. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Thick Layer Of Oil Found on Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, New York Green Fashion Week, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

More bad news has surfaced about the BP oil spill: the Mississippi River has been clogged with thousands of dead fish in it’s wake and researchers have discovered that a lot of the oil that some thought had evaporated has actually just settled on the Gulf of Mexico seafloor. In other unsettling green news this week, 10,000+ walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska; for the first time a non-Russian flagged commercial bulk carrier will use the Northern Sea Route (the northeast passage); the U.S. Clean Air Act celebrates it’s 40th birthday, and in New York, designers show their e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature’s Pest-Fighters to NY Sculpture Park (Video)

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Bat Tower under construction in Griffis Sculpture Park. Photo via GOOD . If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the spooky occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy “Bat Tower” a group of architectural students is building to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area — and raise awareness about the positive role these sometimes creepy-seeming critters play in the local ecosystem…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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