Word: plantes
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...choice in the matter: It's not easy being green. It's easier to toss the leftovers into the 13-gal. (50 L) Hefty bag than figure out how to use the compost bin that sits just outside. It's easier to drive to the grocery store than to plant my own vegetable garden. It's easier to keep my job writing for a magazine that prints 3.25 million copies a week than it is to start over in a new career designing suburban yurts...
Captured potato peelings will be used to fertilize farmland. High-tech filters will recycle wastewater and use it to power the plant...
...specializes in improving the efficiency of major industrial plants by installing technology that captures the heat created during production, harnessing it to provide power for the plant...
...perfect science-meets-nature theme for every Shaklee line. The new dishwasher-powder label shows a stack of plates lined up next to leaf fronds; a tub of scouring paste depicts green leaves rising from a heavy-duty pan; the laundry stain soaker has not only the requisite plant material but a puppy too. "When you look at it, when you're sitting around your home, it reinforces that you're doing a good thing," says Barnett. "And there's no sacrifice you have to make. In the green movement, people felt they were forced to choose between their convictions...
...civil engineers, and botanists, Gotham would see its subways flooded within two to three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded in April 1986. Despite high levels of radioactivity in the area, biodiversity is flourishing and species are procreating. For Weisman, these examples show that while humans have irrevocably altered the earth’s ecosystem, the evolution of life will continue. Yesterday’s event...