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Japan Kills Sea Shepherd Anti Whaling Ship. For Scientific Research?
Photo: Sea Shepherd Sea Shepherd Boat Sinking Neither the kevlar reinforcing, nor a radar deflecting paint job, was enough to protect the Ady Gil trimaran from what Sea Shepherd are calling “an...
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A Home at the Zoo for Old Christmas Trees
Endangered Przewalski’s horses. Those at a zoo in Bulgaria will enjoy a post-holiday treat of old Christmas trees See more here: A Home at the Zoo for Old Christmas Trees
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Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds
Photo credit: / Creative Commons Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom has been lauded for it’s critique of middle-class American family life. There is another theme, however, that has slowly begun...
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Woman Has Used the Same Christmas Tree Every Year Since 1928
Photo: AMagill / CC In this age of consumerism , particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we’ve used the longest often have the most value to us — but the...
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Stellar Solar powers Christmas trees with solar energy in San Diego
Eco Factor: Solar power to light up Purdy Farm Christmas trees. Stellar Solar has been contracted to power Christmas tree lots in Del Mar, Carlsbad and San Diego with renewable solar energy. The...
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Old Christmas Trees Help Other Trees Grow Year-Round in Paris’ Neighborhood...
Sign at a tree-recycling collection point in Paris. Image: City of Paris Once all the gifts have been opened, all the feasting done, all the toasts made, the time will soon come to figure out what the...
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Old Christmas Trees Hung Under BQE as Life-Size Pine Air Fresheners
December 26th was not the end for these lucky pines in NYC . Artist Michael Neff rescued more than a handful of Christmas trees from a sad, dried out, sidewalk fate by installing them as a...
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4 Ideas to Keep Christmas Trees From Going to Waste!
Used Christmas Trees , Shutterstock Did you know that the Christmas time tradition of adorning an evergreen tree with ornaments dates back to Latvia in 1510 when the first decorated tree was recorded?...
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Christmas Tree Farms are Shutting Down Due to Climate Change
Photo © Shutterstock Throughout the US, extreme weather events are causing Christmas tree farmers to close up shop and stop planting new trees . In Vermont and New Hampshire, an early March heat...
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Knit Your Own Treehugging Scarf
Image from the Woodland Trust We didn’t make it up: there is an official measurement called the British Standard Hug. It is a way to measure the girth of tree trunks and each “hug” is 1.5 metres. This...
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