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Greener by Design: Big Ideas from Small Companies
*Ecologic Designs takes discarded products like wetsuits and bicycle tubes and truns them into drink cozies and wallets.
* Trulagreen takes farm waste and turns it into countertops and surfaces for tarmacs. A 2″ by 2″ block is said to be able to hold 17,000 pounds.
* Re-Tread Products uses old tires to make building retaining walls, noise barriers and replace sandbags in flood control.
* Greenheart Global, an Oakland, Calif. is in the business of looking at the waste and by-products produced by companies and advise them on ways to turn the waste into recycled products.
Wildlife experts out to save stray rhinos in Borneo isle
Wildlife researchers are tracking three Sumatran rhinos roaming an isolated patch of forest in Sabah’s east coast, hoping to eventually relocate the animals to a conservation area.
Sumatran rhinos are particularly endangered.
Feds, States Join to Safeguard Western Wildlife Corridors
When new electrical transmission lines are built, migratory animals can be disrupted. Today, Western governors and Cabinet secretaries signed an agreement to work together on protecting wildlife corridors essential to the survival of migratory animals such as pronghorn, caribou, mule deer, and elk.
Signed at the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting, the agreement aims to improve state wildlife data systems for use as renewable and fossil energy resources are planned and transmission lines and highways are considered.
Not everyone is quite ready to take that leap to hybrid cars. In that case one could get some great gas mileage with less guilt from the Honda Fit, “the base Fit with automatic transmission achieves 28 city/35 highway mpg”
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