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Planet 100’s Top 10 Most Bizarre Stories (Video)

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Super SIPS Get Over R-50; That’s A Lot of Insulation!

That is one big stack of SIPS, or Structural Insulated Panels. I have never seen them so thick as that one on the bottom, a full 12 inches and rated at R-52. These are from PorterSIPs, and are sandwiches of OSB (oriented strand board) and EPS (Expanded Polystyrene). Expanded polystyrene is not without problems. Tom Lent of the Healthy Building Network notes in

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Philadelphia Eagles – The Green Team – Scores Energy Independence Touchdown

“Declaration of Energy Independence” declared for Lincoln Financial Stadium, Home of Philadelphia Eagles. Image credit: Philadelphia Eagles Here I am quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser. “The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue , a renewable energy and energy conservation company, to install approximately 80 20-foot spiral-shaped wind turbines on the top rim of the stadium, aff… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: A New Way to See the World (Video)

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Yes, High Speed Rail is Still On the Way

Image: DOT . Click to enlarge Here are the updated plans I know that I’ve made a lot of noise about how high speed rail is falling apart (and getting replaced by out-of-c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Story of Coal (Video)

Visualizing What is Invisible to Most of Us One of the problems with burning coal is that most people never … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mediterranean Great Whites Originally From Australia Not Atlantic

photo: Brandon Fick / Creative Commons Some really interesting research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B highlighted by BBC News : Scientists have determined that the great white sharks living in the Mediterranean are more closely related to th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Kills High-Speed Rail, Proposes High-Speed Buses? (Video)

Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan That whole sustainable, comfortable, and high-speed transportation thing was overrated anyway. Who needs high-speed rail? See, as the Onion proposes above, all we have to do is paint over the shoulder lanes on ou… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Human Ailments that Animals Suffer too (Video)

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Weekday Vegetarian: More Thanksgiving Fare

Photo: Kelly Rossiter There were a couple of reasons I chose to add a tagine to my menu for my Thanksgiving dinner party . It cooked for a couple of hours on top of the stove so we got it started early and then ignored it. I had other things going into the oven, and the tagine didn’t take up any valuable oven time. There are lots of vegetables involved, so every mouthful is a little different from the last and I thought it would be a good companion to the other things on the plate. But really, I love my

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