Green Living
The greening of Guantanamo
Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine.
Green Living
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HOME & GARDEN
Planting a garden? What's your rush?
"Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons" By Felder Rushing (Chelsea Green)
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GREEN LIVING
Cruise ships banned from releasing sewage along Calif. coast
Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be barred from releasing sewage within three miles of the California coast under a rule signed Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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GREEN LIVING
S.C. bill would hurt efforts to block disputed Savannah harbor dredging
A bill in the South Carolina legislature would make it harder for environmentalists to sue to stop Savannah's disputed harbor dredging project. The measure also would hamper other suits brought by groups that want to see South Carolina's pollution control law enforced.
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GREEN LIVING
New estimate of Hanford cleanup is $112 billion
The new price of finishing cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation is $112 billion. It estiamtes the costs through 2065 for cleaning up radioactive and chemical waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.
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GREEN LIVING
California Fish and Game to sue Army Corps over levee tree ban
The state Department of Fish and Game in California plans to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers because the Corps requires that all trees and shrubs be cut down on levees. The Central Valley has little of its historic streamside habitat left, leaving the levees as habitat for many rare species.
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HOME & GARDEN
Try houseplants as gifts for Valentine's Day and beyond
Why give fresh flowers for Valentine's Day, only to know they will soon die. Instead, give an easy-care houseplant that keeps on living and giving.
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HOME & GARDEN
Edible landscaping takes food plants beyond bounds of vegetable patch
Food plants have jumped the fence from the kitchen garden.
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GREEN LIVING
Coal group tries to block climate scientist's lecture at Penn State
A coal and gas interest group wants Penn State to disinvite a climate scientist scheduled to give a talk at the university.
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GREEN LIVING
New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick
When Congress approved the Beach Act in 2000, I was hopeful. The law required the Environmental Protection Agency to develop federal standards for water quality that would protect beach users from pathogen-caused illnesses, and it called for modernizing an outdated approach to measuring beach water...
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GREEN LIVING
Eric Sharp: dollars and sense over Asian carp
A coalition of environmental and civic groups wants the Great Lakes states and the federal government to spend from $3.5 billion to $9 billion to close off the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan.


