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To fight Twin Cities smog, give up that lawn mower, diesel buses?
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 29 days ago
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Unless Twin Cities residents get serious about giving up old lawn mowers, wood-burning stoves and diesel engines, the state of Minnesota could face costs of up to $240 million a year to meet tough new federal clean air requirements. For years the
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Saratoga to celebrate Arbor Day by planting an oak tree at library
Saratoga :: CA :: USA | 30 days ago
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Font Resize The city of Saratoga will gain a new oak tree this week in honor of Arbor Day. The seventh annual celebration is set to take place April 24 outside the Saratoga Library. This year's city-sponsored Arbor Day event will feature live music,
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Vancouver offering low-cost trees in bid to become greenest city in world
Rome :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Affordable trees that do well in the Lower Mainland are being offered at low cost to Vancouver residents as part of the city's initiative to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. The Treekeepers program will cost the city $30,000 per year
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Torrance street trees to be reviewed at meeting
Torrance :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Torrance residents are invited to attend a meeting tonight about the city's proposed street tree master plan, which is intended to provide appropriate planting guidelines for additions to the community's "urban forest. " The goal of the plan, in part,
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Standards 'too high'
Sydney :: Australia | 1 month ago
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Australian air quality standards are too tough and should be eased, mining company Rio Tinto has told a Senate inquiry into the impact of air pollution on health. Health experts have called for stricter regulation to reduce the harm caused by tiny
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Mapping Chennai?s canopy
Chennai :: India | 1 month ago
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A new survey of tree hotspots and rare trees could help policy-makers develop the city along green lines, finds Hema Vijay T.T.K...In Thiru-Vi-Ka Park, seven huge Trincomalee Wood trees and a large Barringtonia tree got the axe for the Metro Rail
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El Cerrito tree census under way
El Cerrito :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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A survey of the city's tree population is nearing completion and residents and city workers will soon have access to a wide variety of useful data about the city's urban forest. Davey Resources Group, the city's contractor, has inspected 13,109 trees
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Vail Daily column: Landscape Logic: Information for the tree huggers and the rest of us
Denver :: CO :: USA | 1 month ago
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the more you know, the more reasons there are to love them...But beyond the obvious, we're learning more and more about how valuable trees are both to the environment and our health. Just by doing what they do standing still in the earth, trees take
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Vancouver crowned Earth Hour capital by World Wildlife Fund
Vancouver :: Canada | 2 months ago
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The city of Vancouver has won a victory in its bid to become the greenest city in the world after being crowned the Global Earth Hour Capital 2013 by the World Wildlife Fund. The city was given the award at a ceremony Tuesday in Malmo, Sweden,
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Garber: Info for tree huggers and the rest of us
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
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the more you know, the more reasons there are to love them...But beyond the obvious, we're learning more and more about how valuable trees are both to the environment and to our health. Just by doing what they do, standing still in the earth, trees
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