Across the country, hundreds of municipalities are considering banning or taxing free plastic bags. In 2007, San Francisco became the first major city to ban plastic bags. Even smaller towns, including 30 Alaskan rural villages have banned the bags. In September, Westport CT became the latest in the trend by overwhelmingly approving the ordinance.
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Stromatolites are the oldest living organisms on the planet. Some scientists believe they were the first living things on mother earth. Hamelin Pool gives an indication of what the earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago when stromatolites were widespread, although the Shark Bay structures are relatively new, being about 3000 years old..
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When I was younger, I recall often seeing glass fragments and aluminum cylinders emptied of their contents, I would ask my father about the reasons why people would do such things. His reply was grave and brief. It went something like this, “some people just don’t respect the land out here, and it’s a real […]

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Now a day’s economic crisis news has consumed everyone’s thinking capacity. Day by day people are starting to forget other aspects of like that they should be equally concerned about as the economy. One such ignored aspect of like is global warming.
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In Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania, West Africa, the population has grown from 50,000 to over 1 million in the last 20 years. The majority of the population lives in shanty towns on the peripheries of city. For these families, access to running water does not exist and buying water in barrels […]

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Global warming delivers today some of the best Iceberg watching around Newfoundland in Canada. The numbers of icebergs showing up is raising from year to year.
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A market can have the behavioral attributes of a young child, particularly when a product you’re bringing to it doesn’t offer the immediate gratification of, say, a Roboraptor robotic dinosaur or the Bratz Forever Diamondz Doll. And so it is with green homes in many markets around the country. “Looks responsible,” many consumers say, “but […]

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In the race to develop and produce alternative energies their impact on water resources must not be overlooked. When searching for an alternative energy source, we expect the alternative to be better than the existing source; better economically and better environmentally. However, in regions already under water stress, such as the Western United States, biofuel […]

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In the year’s 2004 and 2005, the authors of Trash Talk offered a service called Tip of the Month which offered money-saving tips that enabled people to look at waste as a resource. Here are some of the top tips: May - Cardboard works great for weed control in the yard or garden. […]

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Renewable energy financing is the way that many homeowners generate some extra income for themselves each month. You can create an extra thousand dollars in your yearly budget by making the easy and quick transition to renewable energy alone. Know the facts.
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