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Recipe: Open-Faced Fried Green Tomato Sandwich 19.8.2009 Seattle Times: Top stories
Open-Faced Fried Green Tomato Sandwiches will be a favorite with green tomato fanciers.
Eco-Award Winning Luxury Homebuilder Fined for Stormwater Runoff 19.8.2009 ENS
Eco-Award Winning Luxury Homebuilder Fined for Stormwater Runoff
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Siemens and Orange County Choppers Pimp Their Smart Chopper 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
The last time we made mention of Orange County Choppers, the New York based custom motorcycle manufacturer, they’d been commissioned by the to build the nation’s first motorcycle that ran on E85 ethanol fuel. Now OCC are back in the news for having conjured up what is touted as the first custom electric motorcycle. Although Siemens, the electronic engineering giant who did the commissioning this time around probably mean ‘custom electric chopper.’ Although the Smart Chopper is kinda groovy in appearance, with its water based paints and recycled steel frame, i... ...
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Five More Forged Letters to Congress Opposing Climate Bill Discovered 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
image: Remember those urging him to vote against the climate bill? The ones which claimed to be from an hispanic community group and from the NAACP? Well, five more fakes have been discovered, ...
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More Measures to Limit Tourism to Antarctica Proposed by IMO 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
Photo: . The has been during the past years, and travel to the region in April this year. Now even though not all of the region's problems can be blamed to... ...
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Recipe: Green-Bean Salad With Marcona Almonds 19.8.2009 Seattle Times: Top stories
Makes 6 servings1 ½ pounds green beans, ends trimmed 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons sherry or red wine vinegar...
Yingli Green Sees Demand Pickup 19.8.2009 Wall St. Journal: Asia
Solar-energy product maker Yingli Green swung to a second-quarter loss amid slumping prices, but said it has started seeing improvements in project financing and demand.
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Yingli Green Energy posts 2Q loss on charges 19.8.2009 Seattle Times: Business & Technology
Solar cell maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. on Wednesday posted a second-quarter loss driven by one-time charges, sending shares tumbling in premarket trading.
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After Years of Decline, Cleveland Aims to Go Green 19.8.2009 Organic Consumers Association News Headlines

Orchards and vineyards may soon spring from the blight of thousands of abandoned buildings in Cleveland, a city struggling to rise from years of decline and home foreclosures. Once a proud manufacturing powerhouse, Cleveland has lost nearly 10 percent of its population since 2000, the fastest drop of any U.S. city except for hurricane-hit New Orleans.

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Yingli Green Energy posts 2Q loss on charges 19.8.2009 SFGate: Business & Technology
Solar cell maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. on Wednesday posted a second-quarter loss driven by one-time charges, sending shares tumbling in premarket trading. Shares of Yingli fell 12.5 percent, or $1.47, to $10.27. The Baoding, China-based company... Sponsored ...
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ECO CITY: World Class Sustainable City Plans Unveiled 19.8.2009 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Today Germany's historic Hamburg-Harburg Harbor announced the development of a sustainable ECO CITY that combines industry, entertainment and pedestrian life into one super green package....
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Jonathan Takiff: Tuning in to Green 19.8.2009 P-com Living Green
THE "CASH-for-clunkers" program has worked so well for the auto industry, some TV set producers are talking up a similar project for their industry. And after decades of delivering televisions that require lavish amounts of energy to light up and shine, makers are working hard to deliver new models that sip rather than slurp electricity - even if it means a little less brightness when you turn the set on.
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Yingli Green Energy reports 2nd-qtr loss on one-time charges, adjusted earnings beat street 19.8.2009 Star Tribune: Business
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Baghdad bombings kill 75 (AFP) 19.8.2009 Iraq
AFP - A series of devastating attacks across Baghdad killed at least 75 people on Wednesday, in the worst day of carnage to hit the Iraqi capital since US troops pulled out of the conflict-hit nation's cities. ...
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Blasts hit high-profile Baghdad targets 19.8.2009 Financial Times US
Bomb and mortar attacks within minutes of each other near high-profile targets in central Baghdad killed at least 75 people and wounded 310, police said.
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8 College-Town Breweries Producing Great, Green Beer 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
Images via Bison Brewing Co. Savvy, environmentally conscious (and of age!) beer enthusiasts know that even when you're in college, there's more to beer than dollar Pabst at the neighborhood dive. Microbreweries are leading the way when it comes to going green, whether they're brewing with organically grown barley and hops, or adopting renewable energy and other sustainable practices in their operations. Not only does drinking local reduce emissions from transporting those cans, bottles, or kegs around the country, your local brewery likely offers some of the tastiest brews around. We've picked eight green beers conveniently produced... ...
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Switch Commuter Folding Bike Selected for Multiple Design Awards 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
Posts on cycling have slipped from this writers agenda of late. We apologise and return with one of favourites - folding bikes. Earlier this year University student Robert Dumaresq won the 2009 gold (and $4,000 AUD) for his full sized folding commuter bike -- the Switch. He and his bike have since been selected for consideration in the global James Dyson Awards. This international competition honours industrial design across 21 countries and is worth another £10,000. ... ...
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Ice Bear Thermal Storage Units Come to Canada's MEC 19.8.2009 TreeHugger
John and I have covered Ice Bear units before. It is one of those simple, elegant ideas: Instead of using peak daytime (and often more expensive) electricity to cool your home or office during the day, use your air conditioner to make ice at night (it is cheaper and cooler) and use the ice during the day. Now Canada's Mountain Equipment Coop has installed four of them in their new Burlington, Ontario, store. Tyler Hamilton describes them in ... ...
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Green power safer for workers than fossil fuels 19.8.2009 New Scientist: Health
Many fewer workers in energy industries should die or be injured if coal mines and oil wells close in favour of wind turbines and solar panels ...
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Dozens killed in Baghdad attacks 19.8.2009 CNN: Top Stories
Twenty people were killed and 75 were wounded Wednesday in five explosions in Baghdad, Iraq's Interior Ministry officials said.
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