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Craig Venter and his team of scientists have recently announced the development of the world’s first synthetic life form. They have finally found a repeatable method in which organisms can be built in a lab. The product- an organism whose parent is a computer.
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On Wednesday, the California state assembly passed legislation banning the use of plastic bags at grocery stores, pharmacies, liquor, and convenience stores throughout the state. Though other countries and even the city of San Francisco have outlawed such bags, this is the nations first statewide ban on the use of plastic bags!
The bill, awaiting approval by the state senate, would go into effect January 1st of 2012. Included within the legislation are plans to require stores to sell reusable bags as well as place fees on the use of paper bags. Read more…
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Need yet another reason to support team USA in its match against England on the 12th of June? Well, now you have it! Team USA’s jerseys are the most environmentally friendly jerseys ever created!
In an effort to promote sustainability Nike has made team USA’s jerseys out of 100% recycled polyester from, believe it or not, discarded plastic water bottles found in landfills in Japan and Taiwan. Read more…
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After the failed attempts to boost efforts for reducing climate change at the Copenhagen Conference, it is comforting to know that the world is still willing to fight against environmental degradation. Read more…
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The surf community has always been regarded as an eco-friendly culture, but actually how green are the products used for surfing- like, a surfboard? While tradition stands that about 40% or more of each “surfboard blank” ends up as refuse in nearby landfills, a San Clemente local has found a way to solve, or at least contribute to solving the issue. Read more…
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Sometimes I wonder how much time I spend picking groceries at the market. Should I go with the vegetarian fed-hens, cage-free, organic, or natural? Are locally grown strawberries always better than those trucked in? With all the choices people have to make, I don’t blame shoppers for simply picking which is the cheapest. However, a new study concludes that picking the cheapest fruits and vegetables may not only be less nutritious, it could contribute to ADHD in children. Read more…
At this stage in our ongoing climate discussion, you’ve probably heard the word “geoengineering” being thrown around. It is, after all, the newest fad in mainstream talk about solutions to our Earth’s climate change problem. But what, exactly, is geoengineering? According to Wikipedia, “Geoengineering (or climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the Earth’s climate to counteract the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions.” In other words, it’s using technology to fiddle, quite directly, with the environment.
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The new bill seemed promising if for nothing else than the fact than it was written by the bi-partisan panel of Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman; Democrat, Republican, and Independent, respectively. Unfortunately it now appears that climate-change will be taking a backseat to immigration in the Senate. The oil spill in the Gulf has certainly done nothing to help matters: offshore drilling was intended to be one of the compromises made to satisfy the bill’s Republican opponents. Although the likelihood of another catastrophic spill is extremely low, the ecological devastation throughout the Louisiana coast has made it all too real. Read more…
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With the Atlantic hurricane season quickly approaching, experts say we might have one more thing to worry about when it comes to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovery News points out that the warmer-than-usual growing factory of the tropical Atlantic, coupled with the fact that the oil spill is continuing to grow, may create a perfect storm—pun intended—when Atlantic hurricane season kicks off on June 1. Read more…
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Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms in order to reduce global warming. Read more…
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