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The Thanksgiving Challenge, DIY Dog Toys and Tasty Quinoa CakesYesterday

:: Foodies, rejoice! Get inspired to host a local, organic Thanksgiving feast with the help of Alice Waters, Dan Barber and Mario Batali. :: Save money--and waste--by making homemade dog toys for Fido this holiday season. :: Throw together the seemingly random ingredients you have sitting in your pantry and fridge (a la Kelly's Quinoa Cakes with Tomato, Swiss Chard and Olives) for...

16 Kyoto Protocol Nations On Track to Meet Emissions Reductions, Through No Fault of Their OwnYesterday

photo: Mathias Degen Some preliminary data was recently released on how well the 39 nations which ratified the Kyoto Protocol are doing in reducing carbon emissions and the result for the group overall is, well, a mixed bag. Sixteen nations are on track to meet their obligations, while 20 are not. Part of the reason: Between 1990-2006 emissions from the countries of the former Soviet Union declined by 36% as those nation’s economies crashed on the rocks. However from 2000-2006 emissions from these nations rose 7.4%. At the same time emissions from richer developed nations rose 10...

Never Feed Them After Midnight! Gremlins look-alikes Pygmy Tarsiers Found after Being Hidden from View for 80 Years!Yesterday

photo via Texas A&M In our own species, trends from the 1980's have come back into fashion recently—witness the reemergence of leg warmers—and now the animal kingdom is getting in on the '80's thing too, as Pygmy Tarsiers, animals closely resembling creatures from the 1984 movie Gremlins, and thought to be extinct, have been found in the mountaintop forests of Indonesia. The carnivorous primate had not been ...

BLM Issues New Rules for Oil Shale Development: Last Minute Bush Administration Environmental Trashing?Yesterday

photo: Doc Searles Though Congress let the offshore drilling and oil shale development ban lapse back in the end of September, few expected that new rules to develop US oil shale would be proposed before the end of the year. Well, the Bureau of Land Management apparently couldn’t wait. In a move which the BLM says “could result in the addition [to US supplies] of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the Western United States” and which will “increase and diversify America’s energy supply”, new rules for ...

The Plug & Play Energy Bike, A Corporate Green Gift-Giving Center and MoreYesterday

The Plug & Play Energy Bike and a little slice of heaven just waiting for you to adopt...Costa Rica. Image credit: Global Inheritance and The Nature Conservancy Planet Green’s non-profit partners ring in the holiday season with sustainable cheer—offering uniquely refreshing gift ideas, green events and more. See what they’re up to and then choose which one (or two) you’d like to support!...