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Weekday Vegetarian: Crunchy-Topped Lentil Loaf

TreeHugger - 4 hours 52 min ago
Now that the holidays are over, it's time to get back to healthy eating.
Categories: Environment

Cement Company to Pay $1.7 Million for Clean Air Act Violations

TreeHugger - 5 hours 29 min ago
The settlement between Essroc Cement and the EPA and Department of Justice will reduce more than 7,000 tons of harmful nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide pollution.
Categories: Environment

4.0 Earthquake Caused by Fracking in Ohio Was Felt in Tornonto

TreeHugger - 6 hours 3 min ago
After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.
Categories: Environment

2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice.

TreeHugger - 6 hours 12 min ago
No more bringing nerf cannons to a gunfight, this is the year that we have to get serious about saving our cities
Categories: Environment

"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes

TreeHugger - 7 hours 30 min ago
While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.
Categories: Environment

Ask Pablo: Is It Really Better To Recycle Paper?

TreeHugger - 8 hours 41 sec ago
Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there's arguments against recycling paper in each case.
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Lokayukta court orders probe against HD Kumaraswamy - Economic Times

ICA Housing News - 9 hours 2 min ago

Lokayukta court orders probe against HD Kumaraswamy
Economic Times
The high court earlier quashed the Lokayukta proceedings launched against Kumaraswamy for ordering bulk allotment of land to a private housing cooperative society and favouring Jentakal Mining firm by renewing its mining lease allegedly in violation of ...

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Categories: Cooperatives

Lokayukta court orders probe against H D Kumaraswamy - IBNLive.com

ICA Housing News - 10 hours 11 min ago

Lokayukta court orders probe against H D Kumaraswamy
IBNLive.com
The high court earlier quashed the Lokayukta proceedings launched against Kumaraswamy for ordering bulk allotment of land to a private housing cooperative society and favouring Jentakal Mining firm by renewing its mining lease allegedly in violation of ...

and more »
Categories: Cooperatives

The Difference Between Resilience & Sustainability? A Zombie Apocalypse

TreeHugger - 11 hours 44 min ago
The green movement needs to focus more on resiliance. And we can take notes from those surviving zombie take-overs.
Categories: Environment

Local T-Shirts Made from Local Cotton, Now Includes Organic Too

TreeHugger - 11 hours 56 min ago
Experts said you couldn't grow organic cotton in NC. But one initiative, which is already recreating a completely local supply chain for its t-shirts, set out to prove them wrong.
Categories: Environment

Building Low-Carbon UK Economy Will Cost Same as Continuing High-Carbon Infrastructure

TreeHugger - 12 hours 3 min ago
Critics often say that green energy is too expensive. A new open-source analysis tool says it's not. And that's not even taking into account the damage that fossil fuels create.
Categories: Environment

Using Ducks to Control Slugs in the Garden

TreeHugger - 12 hours 19 min ago
Slugs can be a nightmare in the garden. But if you keep ducks, they become animal feed. (And entertainment too.)
Categories: Environment

Black+Blum: British Industrial Designers With Practical and Whimsical Products

TreeHugger - 13 hours 20 min ago
Black+Blum designs household items that you want to use again and again.
Categories: Environment

Co-op looking to close up - Waterbury Republican American

ICA Housing News - Mon, 2012/01/02 - 7:31am

Waterbury Republican American

Co-op looking to close up
Waterbury Republican American
To come up with the $514000, Warner Gardens, the only all-black-owned housing cooperative in the state, is willing to sell the 7.5-acre Long Hill complex, said manager Allen Sinclair. It wasn't an easy decision, Sinclair said. ...

Categories: Cooperatives

Massive Wildfire Burns 30,000 Acres of Chilean Patagonia

TreeHugger - Mon, 2012/01/02 - 4:34am
Authorities say that the devastating fire, which was only contained with the help of some 500 firefighters, was initially ignited by a tourist who simply failed to fully extinguish a toilet-paper roll he was burning.
Categories: Environment

Animal Tickle Tests Shed Light on the Origins of Laughter

TreeHugger - Mon, 2012/01/02 - 4:08am
According to the BBC, researchers in the UK have essentially invented for themselves what might be the greatest job in the world: ticklin' for science.
Categories: Environment

Neti Pots, Home Remedy for Colds or Conduit for Infections?

TreeHugger - Sun, 2012/01/01 - 8:20pm
Two recent deaths were caused by people using regular tap water
Categories: Environment

Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July

TreeHugger - Sun, 2012/01/01 - 7:55pm
It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.
Categories: Environment

My Favourite Stories of 2011: June

TreeHugger - Sun, 2012/01/01 - 5:32pm
Two stories that were deeply important to me, and it seems to nobody else. I try to pump some life into them here
Categories: Environment

Woody Guthrie's 1942 New Years Resolutions Resonate Today

TreeHugger - Sun, 2012/01/01 - 4:54pm
The great folksinger had 33 resolutions for the year; no record of how it turned out in the end
Categories: Environment
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