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Chemists Say ‘Dry Water’ Could Solve Carbon Dioxide Storage Problems
Making water without the wet? Inside a highly advanced technique that some say could have a big impact in reducing global warming. Read More
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Green School Leads and Teaches by Example
If there is a public building in Pennsylvania that wants to call itself the “Greenest” in the state, it will have to work hard to beat Green Valley Elementary school in Sinking Spring. Read More
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Town Plans To Generate Electricity From Trash
It has been done before but not on this scale! Scientist in Minoa, New York have created the first prototype for a small-scale co-digestor using human and food waste to generate electricity for its village. Read More
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Volunteers Across Miami Foster Seedlings For Restoration
Hundreds of volunteers collected mangrove seedlings from various Miami-Dade County locations where they would otherwise have perished and then distributed them to retail and commercial businesses in South Beach, schools and the Miami Science Museum. Read More
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When Dams No Longer Serve Their Purpose
Even though some dams no longer serve a purpose, they continue to have negative impacts on the estuary and freshwater community, they eliminate access to other parts of the river by various species of fish and fall into disrepair through neglect. Enter Stantec, a company that is actively trying to restore… Read More
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Restoring North Portland’s Willamette River
Thanks to efforts from the Willamette Riverkeeper, the Willamette River will hopefully begin to recover from years of industrial activity and neglect. Read More
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War of the Waters 2: The California Front
Everyone needs water. How do we balance the needs of cities and country, of farmers and fishermen, of big agribusiness and tiny smelt? It's getting dry in here, and we're going to need to answer that question in a way that gets beyond the usual "might makes right" equation that has dominated our politics… Read More
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War of the Waters 1: Lessons from Klamath Basin
The debate over water use often gets oversimplified to "Farmers vs Fish", but it's really a lot more complex than that. Read More
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A Place for Environmental Justice at the Table of Brotherhood: Honoring MLK’s Message
The beauty of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is that it not only applies to matters of race. Even before the launch of the environmental movement in the 1970s, Dr. King was well aware of the unsanitary working and living conditions of American minorities. Read More
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Water, Water - NOT Everywhere
What's a water footprint? We take a look at yet another resource in shrinking supply, and suggest it's time we all walked a mile in a watery moccasin. Read More
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