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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)
When Jan Spencer destroyed his suburban driveway, turning it upside down to create a water feature, and create room for a permaculture garden, it must have been hard to predict the chain reaction that would follow. Having
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Nominate Now for Nau's $10,000 Grant For Change
Last year we covered Nau's $10,000 Grant For Change program and followed up on the eventual winners, a documentary team Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele, who tell arresting stories of how climate change is impacting forest fires in the
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Scary, Ancient, Jelly-like Sea Squirt Found Off Oregon Coast
An ancient, jelly-like invasive organism from Japan has been discovered along Oregon's coast. It's being called "very, very scary" by an invasive species specialist and can smother shellfish beds and coat boat hulls, docks and water
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Sea Lions Sentenced To Death By Lethal Injection For Munching 4,000 Endangered Salmon Per Year
To be clear at the outset, I am in favor of doing whatever it takes to sufficiently reduce
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Earth Advantage Institute Makes Earth Day Predictions For Housing Ten Years From Now
The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought
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US Air Force Wants to Ground Huge Oregon Wind Power Project
What would be the US' largest wind power project, the 845 MW Shepherds Flat wind farm near Arlington, Oregon, is under threat. Not from financing problems which have plagued several other high profile humungous
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Clear One Health Insurance Hooks Oregonians Up with Holistic Care
Current events lead us to believe Obama's needed health care reform will finally come to pass. Being that both sides of the issue are interested in cutting costs, there's an independent, alternative and affordable health
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Research Suggests Frequent Fires Could Help Forest Ecosystems
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally
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Facebook is Between a Rock and a Greenpeace
The "rock" in that exceedingly clever headline above refers, of course, to coal. You may have heard that FaceBook recently chose to power a new energy-hungry data server with coal-fired electricity at a
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Bob's Red Mill Founder Gives Company to Employees
So often we patronize companies with cute names like Burt's Bees or Toms of Maine, thinking that we are dealing with Burt and Tom, when in reality we are buying from Clorox or Colgate-Palmolive. No criticism of these big
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What's New With Nau For Spring 2010
Nau, is a clothing company that crafts apparel equally at home in a storm or a dorm. Threads at ease in a metropolis, or on the Galapagos. The idea for a clothing business that would adhere to the three
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Walmart Made Millions Off Oregon's Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Photo via the Oregonian Renewable Tax Incentives Gone Wild? As much as we tout the importance of government support for the fledgling renewable energy industries like wind and solar, recent revelations in Oregon point out how these can get out of hand,
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General Electric To Supply Wind Turbines For 845 Megawatt Project In Oregon
GE's US$1.4 billion contract will be for wind turbines installated at Shepherds Flat in the US State of Oregon (as shown on map above). Per the Business
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Nau Hear This: 30% For You, 10% For Positive Change
Nau are at it again. Now you can get 30% of their woollen tops. But not only that for each wool purchase you make, they'll donate 10% of the sale to their Partners in Change. (Way up from their usual 2%, which is double the industry standard
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New To Nau? Discount for Neophyte Eco-Clothing Customers
' In any economic climate, it's natural to consider the price of the products we buy, and whether their value justifies their cost. We often receive comments regarding the prices for Nau products. One customer recently commented that, "The
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Want it Nau? Wear Test With Nau's Changing Room
Beauty, Performance and Sustainability are the three principles that drive the folk at Nau, the outdoor lifestyle clothing and bag company. You'll notice Price isn't included. Shoehorning that trio of attributes into a product is harder work, than
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Sierra Nevada Comes Through For Wild Rivers
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., which produces a most excellent Pale Ale that's currently in my fridge (but not for too long), has helped to raise $73,342 for Western Rivers Conservancy from the beer maker's 2009 "Wild Rivers" campaign. Sierra Nevada
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Maca Miracle Bars: The Next Acai or Goji Berry?
I got the sense after picking up the sample of Maca bars that this could be the next miracle "food" popping up on the market. That is, if we're not already too burnt out by "miracle foods." I sampled a few of these Potent Life
