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Reversible collects the used billboards from Lyons producer La Cotonnière, cleans them, and delivers the scraps to Texyloop, a plant that processes the PVC for reuse. The bags' $66-119 cost helps finance the group recycling effort. And what happens when your bag wears out? Each one comes with a self-addressed PVC envelope so that it can be returned - to be reprocessed. www.reversible.fr
...cold hillside at the edge of western Wales' Cambrian Mountains, more than a thousand saplings, all planted in the last couple of months, are taking root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service...
...hills of Llanybydder, Hartwell says he makes it clear to his customers that offsetting is only a small part of the fight, and that such frankness costs Treeflights.com "a lot of custom." But he says that's O.K. - he's still got plenty of trees to plant...
...enjoyed its first respite from 15 years of clan war, after the Islamic Courts Union - an alliance of clerics and sympathetic warlords - drove the last four independent warlords out of the capital. The Courts won few fans for their attempts to ban music, soccer, cinemas and qat, the local plant traditionally chewed for its mild stimulant effect. But their success in imposing law and order, and their unexpected ability to rise above clan rivalries, won them almost universal respect...
...want to build a coal-fired power plant in the Midwest," says Andrew Wetzler, senior attorney for the NRDC. "That requires a slew of federal permits and the polar bear would have to be considered." What's more, the clause requires the government to use the "best available science" in making these determinations, and at this point, the only available - or at least only responsible - science lays the polar bear problem squarely at the feet of global warming...