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Every time I take my recycling to the curb, I feel a little guilty about the waste I’m producing. After all, the fact that that material isn’t going directly to a landfill doesn’t mean that it won’t end up there someday. I feel better about putting recyclable papers and cans to the street than I [...]
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released the results of a satellite-based survey of global forest area. The study, which tracked deforestation and new growth between 1990 and 2005, shows that the net loss of forest area was less than had been previously expected. It is important to resist the temptation to read [...]
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Now that Thanksgiving has passed, followed by the annual fourth Friday consumer brawl, I am willing to admit that the holiday season has genuinely begun. Now is the appropriate time to buy bamboo gifts for your environmentalist friends and family, especially if you didn’t throw all of your money at big box stores on Black [...]
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Apart from the obvious impact on the environment, what do programs to weatherize homes in Maine, build wind turbines in the Dakotas and Oklahoma, reforest wildfire-damaged areas in Colorado, and capture landfill gas in various regions in the eastern United Statesall have in common? You might be surprised to learn that the answer is funding [...]
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From one grand green idea an entire movement has sprung forth on the island of Bali. First it was a bamboo green school followed by an eco-friendly luxury resort comprised of bamboo villas and now the crowning achievement in this trend is the “bamboo cathedral,” the world’s largest bamboo commercial structure. Though it’s located by [...]
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A delicious curry recipe with healthy bamboo shoots and asparagus, this green curry tends to be a bit spicier because of the green chiles. Pair it with rice noodles for a satisfyingly warm dish on cool autumn nights. An added bonus: if you’re trying to drop some weight for the holiday season, some studies suggest [...]
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Having just celebrated my fourth wedding anniversary got me started thinking about how much time and energy we spend thinking about the perfect gift for our partner with no thought to how eco-friendly it may be. In keeping our priorities in order, yes, I most definitely want my husband to be happy but I would [...]
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Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons in 2010, according to a new report. Despite a one percent drop in 2009, which fueled some absurd talking points among global warming deniers, 2010 more than made up for it with a staggering five percent increase. Together, the industrialized nations who [...]
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I must say, every time I hear about some sort of frighteningly insane stampede at an American retail outlet, I bury my head deep in my hands, ashamed for the culture that I inhabit. I think we would all do well to remember that Black Friday sales have killed people. Despite that, retailers seem to [...]
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I remember being a teenager and having my first encounter with the term “air stagnation warning” on a local weather report. It was evidently a new addition to the meteorological phrasebook, so the reporter had to give an ad-libbed explanation of just what that meant. As he explained that light winds over the course of [...]
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Summer is at an end but there’s still time to fit in one more taste of summer with this delicious soup recipe. Fish Soup with Bamboo and Pineapple (known as Can Mang Chua Thom in Vietnam) is a sweet yet savory summery-dinner option. Ingredients: ½ lb. parboiled bamboo shoots, sliced ½ pineapple 1 tsp. sugar [...]
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Anyone who reads this site regularly should have a sense of the tremendous versatility of bamboo. It is already used for food, medicine, decorative gardening, the construction of homes and flooring, furniture and other goods, and for clothing textiles. In time we may also be able to add biofuel to the list of its common [...]
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Legend has it that centuries ago, the wandering samurai, the Japanese warriors, would soothe their tired feet with TakeFumi. TakeFumi was not a practice requiring a special piece of armor or something that had to be carried with them on their travels. Rather it was a piece of the ever-plentiful bamboo cut from the roadside [...]
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Now that an East Coast earthquake has actually damaged the historic Washington Monument, we all have reason to be more acutely aware of the potential danger from the kinds of natural disasters that seem comparatively rare in most regions, but that we know from the news can be spectacularly devastating. Knowing what we do about [...]
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What gift do you give to the couple who has everything? Well, apparently, you give trees. Eco-friendly (and proud) parents Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy have requested that in lieu of products, friends and family should plant “celebration trees” to honor the birth of son Bingham. Considering the ecological footprint left by the onslaught of [...]
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As public awareness of environmental issues and eco-friendly living grows, promoting a green image is increasingly profitable for large businesses. Unfortunately, the same cannot necessarily be said of promoting an actual green planet. Numerous multi-national corporations seem to have PR departments slapping environmentally-friendly symbols on the company wherever possible, but hybrid and electric cars remain [...]
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There’s good news and there’s bad news. That seems to be a common refrain when one takes a broad overview of new research and reporting on topics related to global warming. Observed weather patterns and ecological changes, along with projections of the effects of recent carbon emission data usually constitute bad news. Yet there’s good [...]
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Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology just announced to the world that time travel is impossible. Apparently there can be no DeLorean rides into the wild west, no body swapping while accompanied by a holographic friend, no visits from naked, Austrian-accented, killer robots, no stationary bikes to pedal us into a [...]
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