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Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia Glyptostroboides, The Living Fossil in my Yard

Dawn Redwood is a living fossil endangered in the wild that you can grow. Dawn redwood is a magic tree - this mighty tree with such delicate foliage is a giant that produces cones the size of marbles. It is...

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Transition Towns, Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Where Do We Go From Here?

I guess we've all begun to notice that the times, they are a-changing. First of all there was Al Gore batting on about Climate Change, and how our carbon emissions are affecting the planet and it's...

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Can we still save her?86

How to Save our Planet Earth

In 1992 World Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, getting rid of pollution was the main agenda as well as making our planet healthy amid industrial progress. However the ratification and implementation of this...

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Food: We Are What We Eat

People, no matter where they live, or what they do, have one thing in common, the need to consume food. Humans also share this common need with all living beings large and small. What we eat...

14 comments    business life food
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The Strangest Cambrian Creatures Ever Discovered

The Cambrian Period (542-488 million years ago) is known as being the first burst in the diversity of animal life. It wasn't that animals didn't exist before this time, as they did, that made this period...

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What's the Real Cost of Fossil Fuels?

Fossil fuel market prices don’t reflect the externality, or social cost, of pollutants, including carbon dioxide that causes global warming. Since the catastrophic effects of climate change will occur decades in the future, it is easier to measure the cost of preventing them than the the damage that will occur if we don’t. Internalizing the prevention cost by adding it to fossil fuel market prices makes these prices more closely reflect the real cost of fossil fuels.

4 comments    global warming taxes al gore
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The Top 5 Benefits To Installing a Woodburning Stove

Hey Good Looking! Ask most anyone what they think about woodburning stoves and the first words out of their mouth are likely to include something about looking and feeling good. We're drawn by some basic...

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Curtains: A Short Boosh-related Art Film

Why would you go to see this short, grim, arty little black comedy? No reason I can think of, unless perhaps you are an avid, passionate, slightly drooling Mighty Boosh fangirl. Quite a decent sized niche...

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Collecting Fossil Fish

I started my interest in fossils while in a science club in high school in Roswell, New Mexico. We did several trips to collect and I found the shells and embedded crinoids and all those common fossils from...

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Science vs Evolution

If want to continue to believe you come from a rocky soup. You can stop reading and leave now, but if you seek the truth you are most welcome to read on: BTW Please note the dates on these quotes then ask...

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