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  • Food Fact: The average American drinks 222 bottles of water annually.

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    favicon Eat Drink Better d 12:00am by: Food Facts
    Americans are also drinking a lot more energy drinks and sports drinks, but soda is still America's most popular drink.
  • Weight Loss Hypnosis Work

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    favicon Yahoo! d Fri 11:49pm
    How does weight loss hypnosis work? Weight loss is a problem that most of us have dealt with. Research demonstrates a significant effect when using hypnosis for weight loss...Hypnosis has been a matter of debate for long. There are sections of people who believe in this tool of behavior modification and that it can really have some good effects on treating p...
  • Low Natural Gas Prices Threaten Carbon Capture Projects

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    favicon NYTimes d Fri 11:18pm by: By MATTHEW L. WALD
    Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.
  • Op-Ed Contributor: Why Bambi Must Go

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    favicon NYTimes d Fri 10:10pm by: By DANIEL CRISTOL
    The number of migratory birds returning to New York each spring is declining because there are too many deer.
  • Americans still support environmental protection, thank you

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    favicon Grist d Fri 10:08pm
    By Ruy Teixeira Conservatives take note: A new poll shows a decisive majority of Americans believe protecting the environment is good for the economy.
  • Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town

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    favicon NYTimes d Fri 9:56pm by: By WES ENZINNA
    Treece, Kan., has been torn down and may soon be erased from maps. But don’t tell that to the Busbys, who live there.
  • Pictures: mama and baby orangutan saved from palm oil developers

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    favicon Mongabay d Fri 9:24pm by: Rhett Butler
    A mother orangutan and its baby were rescued from an area of forest that was being bulldozed for an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, reports the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC), which participated in the translocation of the red apes.
  • Green Blog: In the Gulf's Depths, a Rare Time Capsule

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    favicon NYTimes d Fri 7:36pm by: By KELLY SLIVKA
    Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happened upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.
  • EVS: Utah State University quietly working on in-road wireless charging

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    favicon Autoblog Green d Fri 5:48pm by: Sebastian Blanco
    Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, EVS If you had to name one of the biggest game-change moments that the electric vehicle could bring to the world, try this one: Every prior attempt to electrify the car has assumed the vehicle would be the energy carrier. By comparison, the grid is much more efficient at moving en...
  • Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust: Planet’s dust cloud may explain strange p...

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    favicon ScienceDaily d Fri 4:23pm
    Researchers have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a long tail of debris -- much like the tail of a comet -- is following the planet, and that this tail may tell the story of the planet's disintegration. According to the team's calcul...
  • A123 Systems to supply 11MW Grid Battery System to Sempra Generation for the Auw...

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    favicon Green Car Congress d Fri 4:02pm by: Mike Millikin
    A123 Systems will supply an 11MW Grid Battery System (GBS) to Sempra Generation for the Auwahi Wind project in Maui, Hawaii. The advanced energy storage solution is designed to smooth variable wind power generation, which is expected to help maintain...
  • Mitsubishi previews bonkers i-MiEV Evolution for Pikes Peak

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    favicon Autoblog Green d Fri 4:02pm by: Steven J. Ewing
    Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, USA, Racing No, that's not a Mitsubishi i-MiEV in a fat suit, it's the automaker's brand-new all-electric race car, and it's set to take on the 2012 Pike's Peak International Hill Climb in July. This isn't the first time we've seen an EV enter the Pike's Peak challenge - Nissan commissioned a Leaf for battle last year, a...
  • A journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil

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    favicon GigaOm CleanTech d Fri 3:39pm by: Katie Fehrenbacher
    About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology.
  • Nature and Nurture: 7 Essentials for Visiting a National Park

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    favicon Yahoo! d Fri 2:59pm
    A few years ago I visited my first National Park, Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Talk about breathtaking beauty! Since then it's become a personal mission to add all 58 national parks to my bucket list. Yes, I intend to see and conquer them all. No matter where you're located in the U.S., there's likely a park within a day's drive from y...
  • The Friday 5: Simple Ideas for Big Change Edition

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    favicon EcoSalon d Fri 2:55pm by: Mike Sowden
    The best of EcoSalon’s stories this week. Salt is itself an uncomplicated compound – it’s how we use it that’s so fascinating. Take these staggeringly intricate installations by artist Motio Yamamoto. Similarly, from simple grapes come extraordinarily diverse wines, and not just in Europe – check out these 10 Californian winerie...
  • Solar News Roundup

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    favicon CleanTechnica d Fri 2:47pm by: Zachary Shahan
      Some more solar energy news from around the net to wrap up the week: SolarCity & Clean Currents have teamed up to offer fixed-price Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for solar power with as little as $0 down and long-term electricity discounts/savings. The largest city-sponsored solar financing program in the U.S. has relaunched in Phoenix, Arizon...
  • Volvo launching 13-liter heavy-duty LNG engine with Westport HPDI injection in 2...

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    favicon Green Car Congress d Fri 2:44pm by: Mike Millikin
    Volvo Trucks plans to launch a 13-liter heavy-duty liquefied natural gas (LNG) engine featuring Westport high pressure direct injection (HPDI) technology for the North American market in 2014. (Earlier post.) The engine’s advanced high pressure diesel ignition technology will provide...
  • Wind Energy Roundup

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    favicon CleanTechnica d Fri 2:31pm by: Zachary Shahan
      Some more top wind energy new from around the internet: Western Wind Energy Corp. is acquiring a whopping 4,000 MW of wind energy projects from Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings. “Cost of the acquisition is $20 Million US, payable by the issuance of 8 Million common shares at a deemed value of $2.50 per share US.” The Ministry of New and Re...
  • Energy Efficiency Roundup

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    favicon CleanTechnica d Fri 2:25pm by: Zachary Shahan
      Some more top energy efficiency news from around the internet: Lighting Science Group has completed the first phase of a relighting project in Washington, D.C. that will “save the city tens of thousands of dollars each year in energy costs” (and a lot of energy). ”Already results show these new light fixtures are saving energy —...
  • Clean Transportation Roundup

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    favicon CleanTechnica d Fri 2:22pm by: Zachary Shahan
      Some more top clean transportation news from around the internet: BMW, Siemens, Daimler, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and many others are working together on joint research project called Visio.M to “develop concepts to produce electric cars that are efficient, safe, and inexpensive,” BMW reports. “Lead manager of the proj...
  • 6 Monstrous Sculptures Made From Recycled Vehicles

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    favicon Inhabitat d Fri 2:17pm by: Ana Lisa Alperovich
    Read the rest of 6 Monstrous Sculptures Made From Recycled Vehicles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, Carhenge, chinese art, cows, Edouards Martinet, Finnish sculptore, French Art, grey cars, Honda, Jim Reinders, Lada Samara Diva, Legend of Iron, Miina Äkkijyrkkä, Neatherlands, Nebraska, recycled animal sculptures, recycled bi...
  • Space Pictures This Week: Trippy Stars, Spooky Moon, More

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    Stars whirl in a psychedelic sky, NASA spies a ghostly eye, a cloud-stained moon rises, and more in the week's best space pictures.
  • Automaker-backed study sounds the alarm against E15

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    favicon Autoblog Green d Fri 2:01pm by: Danny King
    Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, North America, USA Another day, another opinion on the feasibility of E15. This time, a group called the Coordinating Research Council released a study saying that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to push for allowing gas with a 15-percent ethanol blend (aka E15) to be sold to the...
  • Ford Begins Taking Orders for 2013 C-Max Hybrid

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    favicon TreeHugger d Fri 1:57pm by: Michael Graham Richard
    The C-MAX is a compact hybrid utility vehicle and the Ford's first dedicated line of hybrids. The 2013 C-MAX Hybrid will be available this fall with a base price of $25,995.
  • Daily Track: Mother In Law – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

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    favicon EcoSalon d Fri 1:49pm by: Anna Brones
    Every day is better with a new track. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – Mother In Law by Cumbancha Every day we bring you one track for a little musical inspiration. Have a track you want to submit? Email us at contact@ecosalon.com. Image: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
  • Updating World Deepwater Oil & Gas Discovery

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    favicon The Oil Drum d Fri 1:47pm by: Luis de Sousa
    This a guest post by Jean Laherrère, a long-time guest contributor to TheOilDrum. Defining deepwater oil as the offshore resource found in water depths over 500 m, the data available as of October of 2010 was pointing to an ultimate around 150 Gb. This is the result of an extrapolation made last year: Figure 1: world deepwater (>500 m) creaming...
  • 6 Cozy Cocoons to Retreat From The World

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    favicon Inhabitat d Fri 1:43pm by: Ana Lisa Alperovich
    Read the rest of 6 Cozy Cocoons to Retreat From The World Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "natural materials", autism, bark cocoon, Berta Riera Pomes, biodegradable cocoon, biodegradable materials, british design, Cape Town, cocoon, cold-bent plywood, cradle, daniel pouzet, DEDON, Felt, flat pack furniture, Freyj...
  • Free Tea: Growing Your Own Herbal Brew

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    favicon Yahoo! d Fri 1:43pm
    Remember, these are just a sampling of the many, many plants that can be wildcrafted, foraged, or harvested, and turned into herbal teas. And don’t forget all the culinary herbs as well!
  • Science In Defense of a National Treasure: EPA Releases Draft Assessment of Larg...

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    favicon NRDC d Fri 1:42pm by: Joel Reynolds
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a major step forward today in its review of petitions to intervene in the intensifying battle over the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region of southwest...
  • An Introduction to Earthships

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    favicon Yahoo! d Fri 1:39pm
    Imagine a home that heats and cools itself without the need of a furnace or AC unit; one that produces its own zero emission supply of electricity, and is not dependant on a municipal source for water.
  • Brazilian deforestation lower in 2012 to date

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    favicon Mongabay d Fri 1:36pm by: Rhett Butler
    Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is lower in 2012 relative to the same period last year according to satellite-based data released by Imazon, an NGO.

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