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Do you want to win a luxury toilet? How about a super efficient .96 gpf Caroma Luxury Toilet!?!?! Caroma is having a Twitter Contest right now and all you have to do to be entered to win one of 4 toilets is to tweet your favorite water conservation tip to Caroma at @caromausa with the hashtag #oneflush Amazing 500-Horsepower Plug-In Porsche
Porsche has just unveiled their newest concept car, and this one is electric! This is the first plug-in hybrid car ever, and was released at the Geneva Auto Show. It is being called the 918 Spyder, and this amazing Porsche is not just green, but also has a sleek and stylish design!
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Sustainable Interior Design Basics
By the authors of the Interior Design Blog http://www.Styleture.com In today’s design world, your average Interior Designer or Homeowner has heard a thing or two about sustainability, whether it be through news coverage of global warming or whether it is through personal research of sustainable products and practices that will also save them money. Endangered Gorillas Taken Hostage
Africa's oldest national park, Virunga, in Congo Africa has been seized by rebels after a clash with Congo's National Army. The park is home to over 200 critically endangered Mountain Gorillas. After intense fighting the rebels took the park and the park headquarters. Nothing like this has ever happened before, despite the history of conflict in the region. The only mountain gorillas in the world live in this region, who's numbers are around 700 worldwide.
Dingo To Become Threatened Species
In Victoria, conservationists are worried that the dingo may soon become extinct do to interbreeding with domesticated dogs, as well as declining numbers due to habitat destruction. Dingos are similar to wild dogs, and descended from the Iranian Wolf.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment is going to create a strategy to protect the pure dingo, as they are very important in balancing the ecosystem. 55 Million Year Old Species Found!
A previously unknown species has been found in New Jersey of all places! A team of scientists including researchers from McGill University, California Institute of Technology, the Curie Institute in Paris, Princton and others are researching a previously unknown species of crystalline magnetic fossils of a microorganism. The microorganism lived between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs around 55 million years ago. Endangered Animals Facing Tough Times
With the economy being worse then we've seen in recent future, conservation efforts for endangered animals are paying the price. Exxon Threatening Endangered Whales?
The leading environmental groups in Russia launched a lawsuit on Friday against the gas and oil giant, Exxon, for threatening the world's last Gray Whale population. There are only around 130 of this amazing species left in the world, and the pipeline that will be constructed in their habitat may hurt these numbers even further. The Russian government has already approved the plans for the pipeline, but this lawsuit will hopefully cause some sort of injunction against the building of this pipeline. Bush's Environmental Policies Are a Joke
Although the environment is not on voters minds as much as the economy these Defenders Of Wildlife Ad Against Palin
I wrote an article before Palin was announced as the VP choice of McCain that talked about how the ban on aerial hunting was rejected by the voters of Alaska because, in part, of a $400,000 state run campaign . In this article I talked about the aerial hunting of wolves, and tried to get people to sign the petition to ban this barbaric practice. Then I let everyone know that Palin was the one who was behind this horrible practice. Obama's Energy & Env. Stance Attract VCs
Venture Capitalists are taking notice of Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's in depth energy plan that centers around renewable energy. In Obama's energy plan, he pledges to help create five million new jobs by investing $150 billion over the next ten years in clean, renewable energy. It's his commitment, as well as his overall lead in the polls that have VC's ready and willing to pony up their own money to get in on this new "CleanTech" revolution. Pictures of Old Growth Forests
Some terms used when speaking about old forests are: old growth forest,
Bad Economy = More Abandoned Pets
As the economy continues to worsen, more people are being evicted, going into foreclosure and selling their homes. All over the US people are having to give up their pets because of the struggling economy, and people simply cannot afford to care for them anymore.This has lead to a near epidemic status of pets that are being abandoned and given to the Humane Society. In Missouri alone, The Central Missouri Humane Society is reporting that they have taken in 5430 animals so far this year. Green Burial Services Spread
The "Green Burial" movement has been spreading since its conception with the first eco-cemetery which was located at Carlisle Cemetery in the United Kingdom in 1993. The idea behind a green burial is that you are not polluting nature with formaldehyde, using a bio-degradable casket or shroud, avoiding the use of wood altogether. Now, a cemetery in Richmond New Hampshire is offering environmentally friendly green burials. |
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days, to many of us at Greenopolis it is also very important. The current Administration has been far to lax to regulate any environmental issues, and hasn't enacted any legislation that will be an overall help to the environment.
