Archive for December, 2007
Food Not Lawns: No Lawn Left Behind
December 31st, 2007
Ever since we started living in a place were every square inch is growing something useful (to people and other creatures), our eyes are opened to the possibility of transforming lawns and other unused green space to grow food. Why water a lawn full of grass when you could water and grow salad greens, root veggies, herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, …
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Alemany Farm: San Francisco Urban Farming
December 31st, 2007
Alemany Farm is a 4 acre, fully functioning urban farm nestled between a major highway intersection, a newly gentrified neighborhood on a hill and a housing project- the perfect place to grow some food! We got a tour (and some amazing fruit) from Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Volunteer Coordinator and soon to be videoblogger/documentarian extraordinaire. The work being done …
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Nepal’s racing elephants
December 31st, 2007
Elephants and their jockeys have taken part in an annual elephant race in Kathmandu.
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Global climate burns bright in 2007
December 31st, 2007
However, major powers in the developed and developing world remain bitterly divided over the best plan of action. The disunity was underlined during December’s UN summit in Bali which aimed to establish the foundations for a new climate deal when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Darcy Lambton n…
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Unique Kenyan game park under human threat
December 31st, 2007
A short distance from the slums and skyscrapers of Nairobi, Naanyu Ntirrisa pulls thorn bushes around her Maasai village to keep out marauding lions that have killed a cow and two sheep.
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Times Square Ball Drop Goes Green
December 31st, 2007
Time Square ball drop goes green.
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World’s Oldest Orangutan Dies At Metrozoo
December 30th, 2007
World’s Oldest Orangutan Dies At Metrozoo
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US drought spans coast to coast; dancing for rain
December 30th, 2007
Surveying some of the 3,240 hectares he farms in a semi-rural area outside Washington, Chris Tranchitella looks out on empty fields that produced a harvest much lower than he had hoped.
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China’s bold dam causing worries
December 29th, 2007
Wang Zhushu rarely sleeps at night. Instead, the 61-year-old retiree paces, listening to the drone of passing ships that shake the walls of her house on the banks of the Yangtze River.
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Carcass of 37,000-year-old baby mammoth arrives in Japan for study
December 29th, 2007
The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrived in Japan on Saturday for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts, an official said.
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2007 a year of weather records in U.S.
December 29th, 2007
When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide — 1.53 degrees above normal. It was the first time since record-keeping began in 1880 that the globe’s average temperature has been so far above the norm for any month of the year.
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San Francisco Zoo Set to Reopen
December 29th, 2007
The San Francisco Zoo will reopen to the public on January 3rd following a deadly tiger attack that left one teen dead and two of his friends injured.
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San Fransisco tiger attack causes local zoos to look at their own safety measures
December 28th, 2007
More information continues to come in about what caused a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo to maul three people, killing one of them.
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S.F. Zoo Remains Shut After Tiger Attack
December 28th, 2007
S.F. zoo remains shut after tiger attack.
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Zoo Director: Wall Lower Than Recommended Height
December 28th, 2007
The director of the zoo where a teenager was killed by an escaped tiger acknowledged Thursday that the wall around the animal’s pen was just 12 feet high — well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation’s zoos.
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