Photo via Little Kay Gardens
Looking for something unique to make your gift for Easter or Mother’s day more memorable and still eco-friendly? Instead of using regular wrapping paper, which will most likely get tossed, try flowering gift wrapping paper that can be planted after wards.
Photo of CSA veggies. By lillieinthecity via flickr.
Family farms are slowly disappearing as corporation farming and pesticides dominate the national food market. However, in southern California a group called CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) California has found a way to support local farms and help educate the community in the importance of keeping these farms alive.
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100 million tons, of mostly small pieces of plastic, now create our oceans garbage patches, but what if we could take that material and turn it into something environmentally conscious? Dutch architect Ramon Knoester has a concept for a “Recycled Island.” An actual sustainable island made of the plastic from these garbage patches, which could theoretically be the same size as Hawaii, and completely powered by wind and solar energy.
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Current climate change studies are not painting a positive picture for the Southwest, home to Joshua trees. It is likely that over the next 60 to 90 years 90 percent of the area where Joshua trees grow will no longer be able to sustain the tree, according to the new study led by U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Ken Cole.
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The flying squirrel has flown right into the hearts of the U.S. federal court. On Friday, a federal judge reinstated endangered status for the West Virginia northern flying squirrel in hopes that a recovery plan can be put into action to save this dwindling furry flying species.
Brooks Range Lake at the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska. Photo by backpackphotography via flickr.
Global warming affects may not be immediately apparent to the tourists that visit Alaska’s National Parks every year, but the rangers and scientists that make Alaska their home are starting to see the disturbing changes.
Photo by Melissa Maples via flickr
Recently I did a big clean out of my closet and decided to donate my clothes to charity. As I was going through my drawers I came across things like bras, that I simply thought were not an item that could be donated due to its personal nature. However, it turns out that there can be a second life for your used or new bras that you simply have never worn or don’t fit right.
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Bananas may soon become an extinct commodity as the Tropical Race Four fungus attacks them around the globe.
There are more than a thousand varietals of banana worldwide. In South America alone, they cultivate about 300 varietals. However, the banana that Americans have come to know and enjoy is the Cavendish. It is a genetically superior banana, can be shipped while still green, not easily bruised and is nutritious, cheap and always available. The Cavendish represents about 99 percent of all banana exports. Most other varietals of bananas are simply too small, the skin is too thin and their pulp is too bland to be shipped and sold to an international market.
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Plans by the partially-owned Shell, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, could have devastating results for the gray whale as they look into building a major oil platform near vital feeding grounds.
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Joining Hands Against Oil Drilling
In the last couple of years we have had major disasters terrorize and poison our oceans; a catastrophic oil spill in our Gulf Coast, radioactive toxins seeping into our ocean from a damaged nuclear plant in Japan and a growing garbage patch in the dead zones of our Atlantic and Pacific oceans. June 25th, Hands Across the Sand will come together all over the globe, for the second time, to voice their opposition of expanding offshore oil drilling and support the championing of clean energy for a sustainable planet.
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