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Chicago's McDonald's Cycle Center: Every City Needs One!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green )

Wendy
- 6 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
The cycle center is a great facility built for bicycle commuters and another step towards Mayor Daley's goal to make Chicago the most bicycle-friendly city in the USA.
Gov't Nixes Forest Experiments; Scientists Upset
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, forests, CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems, green, nature, habitat, world )

Maria
- 6 days ago - news.yahoo.com
For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.
America's First USDA Certified Organic Bar
Offbeat  (tags: organic bar, chemically free, interesting, goodnews, environment, society, world, safety, ethics, food )

Elena
- 6 days ago - greenmuze.com
Finally there is a place to enjoy organic cocktails without worrying about ingesting pesticide in your Margarita or fertilizers in your Cosmopolitan. New York City is home to America's (and maybe the world's) first USDA certified bar
Sierra Club: Email - How Green Is Your Cooking?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: sierra club newsletter, eco-friendly, environment, greenliving, healthy )

Pirjo
- 6 days ago - action.sierraclub.org
Want to green your cooking, but don't want to shell out for a cucumber-colored Cuisinart? An eco-friendly kitchen is about more than your appliances and counters -- it's about serving food that's easy on the belly and the planet.
Experts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000 -Some Experts Want to Prevent That
Science & Tech  (tags: population, human, live, 1, 000, aging, theory, genetic, research, stem cells )

Jean
- 6 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
There is no hard reason why aging can't be dramatically slowed or prevented altogether. Not only is it theoretically possible, but a scientifically achievable goal. Genetic research is not the only field that may hold the key to eternity. "We are chipping
Don't Waste That Jack-O-Lantern! How to Use the Pumpkin
Green Lifestyle  (tags: interesting, Halloween, food, pumpkin, homemade )

Joe
- 12 days ago - ecojoes.com
Think of all those pumpkins that people just carve up and throw away. Dang, all that wasted potential food. Welp, here's how to turn your jack o' lantern into a veritable feast!
Usb Memory Stick Made Out of Twig
Green Lifestyle  (tags: business, coolstuff, CoolStuff, design, home, humans, interesting, organic, greenproducts, eco-friendly, green, greenliving, technology, usb memory stick, usb stick, computers )

Miia
- 12 days ago - alternativeconsumer.com
Add a touch of nature to that sterile plastic box you worship for hours every day with one of these handmade, natural wood USB memory sticks.
Mysterious Dark Matter Might Actually Glow
Science & Tech  (tags: science, space, study, research, scientists, interesting, news, discovery )

Maria
- 10 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Nobody knows what dark matter is, but scientists may now have a clue where to look for it. The strange stuff makes up about 85 percent of the heft of the universe. It's invisible, but researchers know it's there because there is not enough re
Citizen Gore Vidal: Elections Won't Reverse the Decline of American Democracy, the Prolific Literary Legend Says
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: vidal, economic, collapse, democracy, war, unjust, writer, literary, legend )

Jean
- 12 days ago - inthesetimes.com
Gore Vidal is one of the singular literary figures of this era. We're in [the impending economic collapse of the country]. If you spend money at this rate on an unjust war--and a war that will have no outcome favorable to us, ever -- don't be surprised.
Scientists Discover Patagonian Diesel That Grows on Trees
Environment  (tags: biofuels, green energy, sustainability, forests, renewables )

Pekka
- 14 days ago - guardian.co.uk
A tree fungus could provide green fuel that can be pumped directly into vehicle tanks, US scientists say. The organism, found in the Patagonian rainforest, naturally produces a mixture of chemicals that is remarkably similar to diesel.
 
 
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