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A new urban planning info-sharing service
About a week ago Planetizen, the unfortunately named but otherwise great urban planning, design, and development info-sharing service -- launched Planetizen Radar. It's a bloggy compilation of bits and pieces on those subjects from around the MSM and blogospheric worlds. Handy, if you're into that kind of thing, as I am.
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Did you know …
... that the top source of lead poisoning among endangered California Condors is hunting ammunition? Now you do.
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Abandoned mercury meters are contaminating Louisiana
Reader PM writes in to let us know that the media's missing a big story: mercury contamination from mercury meters in oil and gas fields across Louisiana (and probably other states with such fields).
Here's more on mercury meters. Here's a story from last year on the danger.
Anybody out there got any insight on this?
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Connect the Plots
Land corridors encourage biodiversity, says research in Science Narrow strips of land that connect isolated natural areas encourage plant biodiversity, according to a new study in Science. The study confirms what ecologists have theorized for decades — that areas connected by land corridors “retain more native species than do isolated patches, that this difference increases […]
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Aquaculture Shock
Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand Farmed fish have nearly caught up to wild-caught fish as a source of the world’s seafood, reported the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday. In 1980, just 9 percent of human-consumed fish came from aquaculture; now the number is 43 percent. “Catches in the wild are […]
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Pulp Non-Fiction
Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village Here’s China’s environmental situation in a nutshell: In 2004, after a toxic spill into the Yellow River, two Chinese paper mills were fined $300,000 and ordered to install water-recycling and treatment equipment. They didn’t. Instead, city officials built temporary wastewater containment pools beside the river. An […]
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Coca-Cola learns a tough lesson about corporate sustainability
In January 2006, the University of Michigan suspended the purchase of Coca-Cola products on its campus. Corporate decision-makers should pay heed: this event is notable on several dimensions. Coke learns that CSR is the real thing. Photo: iStockphoto First, this decision was not due to any problems with product or pricing. Instead, the university cut […]
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Me not working. Good things happening. Coincidence?
"No Day at the Beach: Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation"
While I was on vacation, California committed to signing a landmark climate bill, the National Park Service committed to emphasizing conservation, and my own neighborhood of Ballard committed to becoming the nation's first carbon-neutral community.
I should go on vacation more often.
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Searchable database of green homes, apartments, condos, and products
I just had about two hours of my time sucked up by Vivavi's Modern Green Living Home Directory. (It just launched this past Friday.)
I really want to live here.
