In case you missed the news, the $700B bailout included tax credits for renewable energy industries. So what are the greenest bits of the bill and what does it mean for renewable energy companies? Also, where is all that glorious cash coming from?
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]]> An unusual tourist - one that may be 8 feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds - has been visiting Cape Cod recently. A manatee, normally a denizen of waters much farther south, has been sighted in Harwich, Dennis, and Yarmouth, an official at the Cape Cod Stran
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]]> A resident of the US state of New Jersey has admitted that he tortured and drowned 19 cats, some of which were kittens, after adopting them from local feline lovers.
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]]> There is only one place on earth where wild tigers live in a mangrove swamp. At 10,000km2 the Indian and Bangladeshi Sundarbans is the biggest and most bio-diverse mangrove forest in the world, and home to the tiger.
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]]> If you screw up entering your id & password information enough times, Gmail will lock up your account - and there's no one to call. Same for Microsoft & Yahoo, unless you are a premium paying customer. What to do?
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]]> You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming—it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions
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]]> Sibella Kraus, of the Berkeley nonprofit Sustainable Agriculture and Education (SAGE), pioneered the idea of urban edge agricultural parks: undeveloped plots on the outskirts of urban areas to be used both by small farmers without access to their own land
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]]> By aggregating groups of consumers, they figured they could wrangle discounts from suppliers and bring down the often prohibitive cost of solar power systems. They threw together a website and started spreading the word at farmers’ markets and other commu
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]]> Hard cider was for years the drink of choice for many colonial Americans. My own colonial American, Rick, still loves it and has one from time to time. Entertaining piece on hard cider, apple varieties used and taste testing.
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]]> Seven employees of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration have agreed to give statements in the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, the attorney general and lawmakers involved in the probe said
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]]> "McCain's campaign announced a plan to turn a page on the financial crisis, distract with dishonest, dishonorable assaults against Barack Obama," the ad says."Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy."




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]]> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.
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]]> Conservationists have been angered by the decision to fell a yew tree that may have been almost 1,000 years old. The tree stood in the home of Victorian naturalist Richard Jeffries who wrote about it
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]]> COOKTOWN police are searching for an elderly male believed taken by a crocodile near Cooktown early this morning.
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]]> A CARPENTER who cheered during a senseless slingshot attack on a koala has lost his job - and been ordered to perform 150 hours of community service.
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]]> WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Operations aim to:
Save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies.
Improve nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people...
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]]> Santa Barbara boasts a classic laidback California lifestyle, with uncongested beaches, wholesome cafes and charming Spanish-style architecture.
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]]> Another Icon of our time... passes over the rainbow bridge... bye bye baby blue eyes...
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]]> Would you be happy if your husband spent a good deal of his time with another woman? Here's a touching story of one wife who is.
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]]> Protesters chanted "Recall Palin!" as organizers told the crowd to push state legislators to keep after their investigation into the governor's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

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]]> Still no resolution for the big bailout - read all about it here - what's next?
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]]> they've felt ignored when she made appointments to her administration, sided with sporting interests over Native hunting rights and pursued a lawsuit that Natives say seeks to undermine their ancient traditions.

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]]> As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin...
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]]> Stop Shark Finning and other inhumane killing. Sharks are dragged onboard, fins cut off the livng animal, and they are thrown over, to die slowly. 'Protect Cocos Island', will fight this. VOTE HERE: http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/ WXKZ1S

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]]> BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Federal wildlife officials have asked a judge to put gray wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list - a sharp reversal from the government's prior contention that the animals were thriving.

Attorneys for
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]]> Way to go New Jersey! This is great news for all Farm Animals. This goes to show that change can and does happen. Let's use NJ as an example to other states and ask those states to please follow NJ's example.
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]]> On September 7 a robotic Prius took a cruise around San Francisco. The “Pribot” maneuvered through city and highway traffic along a 40 mile course. The only mash-up? A scrape at the Bay Bridge exit. I welcome our new vehicular overlords.
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]]> But electronics rarely last as long as a real pet. As faithfully as it might serve you, within a few years it’s time to put that gadget out to pasture. This is your guide to the greenest pastures around.
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]]> Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks.What's significant about this year's is that it means the long-term trend of ice loss is going down much faster than expected
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]]> The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.
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]]> Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".
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