Photo credit:Matthew Hoelscher It seemed like a good idea at the time. Let’s make an artificial reef from old tires and let corals establish themselves, creating a new marine habitat. At the same time, we’ll free up space in our landfills. Ray McAllister, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, organized the project, with U.S. Army [...]
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Lately the U.S. Federal Government has been making a lot of noise about green fuel. It started with President Bush’s comment about “switch grass” in his State of the Union Address. He got a few chuckles out of that. While we’ve all heard of using corn to make ethanol, and the importance of trading our [...] In 1964, a report produced by the Tennessee Department of Public Health stated that the Chattanooga Creek was “without a doubt, the most grossly polluted stream in the Chattanooga area.†In 1969, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that Chattanooga, Tennessee had the poorest air quality in the nation. This was due, in [...] You could say that Los Angeles has a love/hate relationship with the bicycle, but (in the manner of all things LA) it’s a rather eccentric one. Angeleno bicyclists love so much about LA—the weather, the mountains and beaches, the leafy side streets, the breathtaking light — but LA as a whole does not love bicyclists. [...] While masks were thought to help people recover quickly when they were sick, that the children in this area used them to help protect them from the air pollution. It all came together. My blood-shot eyes – my burning throat. |
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