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Australian Company Will Kill Camels for Cash, Carbon Credits
As you've likely heard, Australia is en route to pass legislation ensuring that its largest polluters pay for their carbon emissions. The new law will allow companies to reduce at least part of their emissions by
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The Week in Animal News: Man Kills Entire Pelican Colony, Sharks at Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)
The arrival of thousands of pelicans could annoy just about anyone, but few resort to a mass killing to deal with the "problem." That's what one Minnesota farmer did this week, and he now faces fines of $15,000 and six months in
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New Carbon Tax Means 1 Million Australians Won't Have to Pay Income Taxes
You might have already heard that after a long and arduous political battle, Australia is on track to institute a fairly potent carbon tax. After the measure passes the upper house (where the
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Community Aquaponics Project Gives Free Food to the Homeless (Video)
From edible landscaping in parks to feed the homeless to a locally-funded restaurant that guarantees everyone a meal, we've seen plenty of ways that the local food movement is picking up the issue of social justice and
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How to Plant Trees to Regenerate Land (Video)
The other day, I posted a video on how one Australian farmer was using weeds and water to regenerate degraded land. Perusing Permaculture TV, I came across another video from Ecofilms Australia of one Aussie farmer who
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Fertilizer-Producing Island Cannot Grow Vegetables. It's a Lesson for Us All. (Video)
There has been a lot of talk about the difference between resilience and sustainability of late—with the notion of resilience becoming increasingly important as we realize just how fragile our cultural and economic systems
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How to Build a Rocket Stove Water Heater (Video)
If you like this ingenious low-work chicken tunnel garden system, then you'll most likely dig this footage from the same folks of a DIY water heater using rocket stove principles. Burning scraps of wood and tree
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How to Keep Roosters in the Suburbs: Design Carefully (Video)
From backyard chicken tractors to urban chickens as a gateway drug, there's no doubt that keeping hens in urban and suburban areas has seen a major revival in recent years. But urban roosters are a lot less commonplace,
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Clever Tunnel System Makes Chickens Do The Gardening (Video)
We've already seen how one farmer trains her chickens to eat slugs, and the internet is full of examples of chicken tractors—portable coops that can be moved to allow hens to till, fertilize, and weed a plot while
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The Week in Animal News: Drunk Elk Stuck in Tree, Famous Penguin Feared Dead, and More (Slideshow)
It's not exactly easy to free a drunk elk from a tree, we learned this week.
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Escaped Pet Birds Are Teaching Wild Birds to Speak English
Across parts of Australia, reports have been pouring in of strange voices chattering high in the treetops -- mysterious, non-sensical conversations in English. But while this phenomenon is certainly quite odd, its explanation isn't
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New Species of Dolphin Discovered in Australia
Researchers in Australia say they've made a remarkable discovery, identifying for one of the first times in over a hundred years a brand new species of dolphin. And, in addition to being the latest of its kind to be uncovered,
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Dugongs, Turtles Face Mass Starvation After Storm
Northeastern Australia may have dried out after devastating floods hit the area early this year, but for dugongs and turtles off the Queensland coast, the natural disaster's
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The Week in Animal News: Bear Drives a Prius, Suffocating Fish and More (Slideshow)
It's been a rough week overall for animals on TreeHugger: a bear totaled a Toyota Prius his first time behind the wheel, fish are suffocating in the Texas drought, and a seagull was kicked to death in New York by a man "walking for
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Aussie Police Refuse to Execute Dive-Bombing Bird
If you've never crossed paths with a magpie, Australia's iconic black and white bird, then consider yourself fortunate. They may look harmless enough, cute even, but every year the species rain terror from above by
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How Nature Makes Soil, And You Can Too (Video)
From helping to convert arid, salty desert into a productive permaculture garden, to reminding us of the astounding fact that there are 40 tons of life in just one acre of soil, Geoff Lawton knows a thing or two about
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New Fishing Tactic Gains in Popularity Among Dolphins
It's commonly stated that dolphins are one of the most intelligent species on Earth, but the latest research is proving once again that this lofty assessment of their smarts is well-deserved. Researchers studying bottlenose
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PanelPop Frames Art With Reclaimed Timber & Recycled Polystyrene
Cheap, flimsy art and photo frames -- especially tacky plastic ones made to imitate wood -- are awfully common nowadays. But Australian company PanelPop has the right idea: to make frames
