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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Emily Gertz
This Guy's Toast
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November 14, 2011: "Hello, BP? I need some oil." Designer Thomas Thwaites wanted to build his own toaster from scratch. How hard could it be?
Google Earth Tour Charts Bluefin Tuna's Trans-Atlantic Journey
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September 7, 2011: This video (above) uses Google Earth to chart one Bluefin's path around and across the Atlantic Ocean. Via Talking Science.What does an Atlantic bluefin tuna look like before it reaches your sushi plate or salad niçoise? "... read more >
All the News That's Printed to Fit
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June 1, 2011: Can the humble T-shirt be an effective medium to report environmental news?T-Post, a small Swedish company, melds knit cotton jersey's utility as a graphics platform with its potential as a news medium.  T-Post selects a... read more >
Celine Cousteau Updates Her Grandfather's Legacy
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May 23, 2011: Mixing ocean conservation with video and film comes naturally to Celine Cousteau. Her legendary grandfather guided a generation of TV viewers through "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" and introduced millions to... read more >
Japan (Officially) Sours on Nuclear Power
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May 11, 2011: Nearly two months to the day since Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident began, the country's head of state has announced that the country is scuttling plans to build more nuclear power plants.Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on... read more >
Don't Panic, Yet: Fukushima Radiation Not Affecting U.S. Fisheries, but Many Open Questions Remain
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April 22, 2011: How are radioactive isotopes leaking from northeastern Japan's crippled nuclear plant affecting U.S. marine environments? The short answer so far: not much. According to a recent report prepared for Congress, Americans,... read more >
Got iGeigie? Radiation Monitoring Meets Grassroots Mapping
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April 20, 2011: In the first days of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown in Japan last month, data on radiation levels in or near the facility were scarce. "At the very beginning, nobody knew how much radiation was being released... read more >
Breaking the Ikea Habit
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April 13, 2011: I was delighted to find some attractive, solid-wood bookcases at Ikea a few years ago. Then I read  "The Stolen Forests: Inside the covert war on illegal logging," a major investigative report in the Sept. 2008 issue of The... read more >
Why A Georgia Town Should Love Its 20,000 Bats
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March 31, 2011: Upwards of 20,000 bats may be living in an abandoned old Victorian in Tifton, Georgia, reports The New York Times. Apparently it's hard to get an accurate count when so many bats are involved, but if that number is even... read more >

Re "Why A Georgia Town Should Love Its 20,000 Bats" (April 15, 2011): I actually did wonder about that angle when writing this up. Perhaps creating a Tift County bat guano enterprise would help keep the house from becoming a major health hazard... Read More >
Must-See Photos from Tsunami-Struck Japan Record Destruction, Endurance
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March 29, 2011: Australian-in-Tokyo photographers Tracie and Dee drove to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan roughly 10 days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. There, they volunteered with an emergency relief group called Peace... read more >
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