Super Eco News

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  10 things we should clean regularly

  Here is a list of 10 items, or categories, that need to be cleaned regularly and are often neglected:Those wonderful green, reusable shopping bags which, if we do not wash them… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (13 days ago) 7 comments
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  Scotland bids on floating wind farm

  Statoil, Norway’s largest energy company, plans to build a demonstration site to test its “floating” offshore wind turbines. This move is based upon the success… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (14 days ago) 8 comments

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  Statoil

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  Renewable energy, Renewable, Technology, Wind turbine, testing, Alternative energy

  Web News

  guardian.co.uk: Environment , bbc.co.uk , Healthy and Green Living (38 comments) 

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  Five ways to green back-to-school

  September is right around the corner, and the yearly ritual of back-to-school shopping has already begun. School supplies run the gamut from the utilitarian to the ridiculous and,… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (21 days ago) 15 comments

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  Reuse, Recycling, Bisphenol-A (BPA), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Phthalate, Organic

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  Feature How to join the Canvolution

  Once again, we are living in a great age for canning. Not since the "Of Course I Can!" poster days of World War II has there been such a broad nationwide campaign in favor of… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (25 days ago) 15 comments
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  Microbe managing the gulf spill

  A host of tiny microbe managers have taken up the cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico. According to an Article in The New York Times, hoards of heroic hydrocarbon-chewing… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (28 days ago) 6 comments

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  BP

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  Down

  Web News

  NYT: Environment , cnn.com , Green on HuffingtonPost.com (910 comments) 

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  From Urban Decay to Farming Heyday

  On the fringes of what was once touted as the "Paris of the West," "Motor City" and "Motown," Detroit's outlying areas have long suffered from profound vacancy issues. … | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (30 days ago) 6 comments

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  Victory Garden, Conservation, Biodiversity, Organic

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  Largest Oil Leak in Midwest History

  These are some mighty dark days for oil. In the wake of the still unfolding BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, news of another massive oil spill in the U.S. is mighty bad news… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (36 days ago) 7 comments

  Companies

  Environmental Protection Agency

  Web News

  detnews.com , battlecreekenquirer.com , edition.cnn.com , freep.com , TreeHugger 

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  Bat populations in the U.S. plummet

  My neighbor's barn loft was once host to more than 3,000 bats. At dusk they would swarm out in a great river, riding low over the fields to feed, then disperse upward to capture… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (39 days ago) 6 comments

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  Conservation

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  A National Ocean Policy, good news for beleaguered seas

  If there was ever an element that needed defending, it is the element of water. These days, our oceans are particularly at risk. For too long we have functioned under the "out of… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (42 days ago) 6 comments

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  Water, carbon dioxide, National, Food, Emissions, Renewable, Air, Ocean Acidification, natural

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  Water

  Web News

  NRDC: Switchboard , Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC , Green on HuffingtonPost.com (355 comments) 

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  Why we love cool roofing

  It seems that light-colored rooftops and roads really can curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change, according to a study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National… | Read the full article ›

  By (43 days ago) 6 comments

  People

  Steven Chu

  Definitions

  Global warming, Greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, Global, National, Emissions, Land

  Web News

  newscenter.lbl.gov , ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate , Yale Environment 360