American Society of Landscape Architects: Welcome Annotated A green roof replaces traditional roofing with a lightweight, living system of soil, compost, and plants. The plants–and the dirt and gravel that hold them–filter rainwater and some of its pollutants. The plants produce oxygen that help clean the air. A green roof reduces a building’s heating and [...]

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Nature Conservancy News Room – The Nature Conservancy Launches “Plant a Billion Trees Campaign” with Planet Green Annotated Today, The Nature Conservancy launched the “Plant a Billion Trees Campaign” at www.plantabillion.org to restore and plant one billion trees by 2015 in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.   Just [...]

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Will the U.S. solve the climate change problem? Blogs Scientific American Community Annotated by dbiello Mar 29, 2008 Either the ingenuity unleashed by the United States own special mix of free markets and government regulation will solve the climate change crisis or the rest of the world, having witnessed an American government content to stick [...]

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Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change – New York Times Annotated Our Towns Susan Stava for The New York Times Alison Broda practicing Zen archery at the Garrison Institute on Friday. It is a discipline combining intention and action, focus and carry-through. By PETER APPLEBOME Published: March 30, 2008 GARRISON, N.Y.   The idea of [...]

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