Bag Monsters demonstrating in support of banning single-use shopping bags. Photo: Bag Monster Blog. A growing number of cities and states around the world are taking on the blight of plastic shopping bags , but San Jose, California has just taken things to another level–passing a new ordinance that bans giving out free single-use carryout bags altogether . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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San Jose, Calif. Bans Plastic Shopping Bags – And Free Paper Ones
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Photo: notonthehighstreet Gone are the days when Brussels sprouts evoked a family groan at dinner. Now sprouts are being hailed as a hang-over cure (more on that later), a cancer fighter and a trendy food. One farmer is so committed that he farms 2,000 acres of them, with half a million being harvested. Two to three hundred tons of sprouts will be shipped out for the Christmas rus… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brussels Sprouts are Back in Style
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A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan’s Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn’t an easy find, though. Seems shooting bullets at wind farms is nothing new. The Michigan incident is just the latest episode of upset people taking out their anger on defenseless nacelles, blades and, in this case, transformers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Elsewhere
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Photo via American Hunter Whether it be lurking through the brush with a bow in search of deer, or picking off wolves with a high-powered rifle from the comfort of a helicopter, Americans have a long history of hunting for sport — but this love-affair with killing animals has apparently been fizzling over the years. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 33 states across the country have seen a sharp drop in the number of hunting licenses sold in the past two decades. Experts suspect that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Americans Losing Interest in Killing Wildlife For Fun
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Short-lived, non-biting, adult lake fly – Chironomus plumosus. Image credit: Wikipedia Common-sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen – may be blown by the wind or carried across the land surface by runoff, with some portion of such crop residues deposited in the organic sediments of streams lakes and reservoirs. Scientists call the resulting organic stream sediment “detritus.” The rest of us call it ‘muck.’ It follows that if most of the corn being grown is genetically modi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pesticidal Proteins (Bt) From GM Corn Plants Are Now Common In Midwest Streams
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Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It’s 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert site and up to 350 workers installed nearly 775,000 thin-film PV solar panels. Now that it is finished, the Copper Mountain Solar farm is the l… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biggest Solar PV Farm in U.S. Goes Online in Nevada
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Holiday Gift Guide 2010: The Fashion Buff and Pop Culture Fan (Video)
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Images via Yanko Design File this under “random yet practical.” It is a stretcher for sea turtles. The design, called Tuto and created by 2Y1DEA , is intended to help rescue workers, marine biologists and conservationists work with sea turtles — saving them, tagging them, or monitoring their health — without additional risk to the turtle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT
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Images via Yanko Design File this under “random yet practical.” It is a stretcher for sea turtles. The design, called Tuto and created by 2Y1DEA , is intended to help rescue workers, marine biologists and conservationists work with sea turtles — saving them, tagging them, or monitoring their health — without additional risk to the turtle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT
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People build air supported domes like the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome for two reasons: They are quick and they are cheap. The whole stadium was an exercise in cheapness, being described in Wikipedia by one official as a place to “get fans in, let ’em see a game, and let ’em go home.” I didn’t think … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Metrodome Roof Failure Is A Symptom Of A Larger Problem
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