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10:42 am in animals, cooling, florida, minnesota, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: M Glasgow under a Creative Commons license.
With an unprecedented spike in temperatures breaking records all over the country, humans aren't the only ones feeling the heat. But just as humans have come up with lot of ways to keep cool, tigers at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay an...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:04 am in Business & Politics, florida, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger
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In case you missed the news that's been unraveling over the last month, the city of Orlando has arrested more than 20 Food Not Bombs activists for feeding people in public without a permit.
Now, "Anonymous," the hacker collective known for other online attacks including against Visa, MasterCard, and the Church of Scientology, Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1:47 pm in boats, fish, florida, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
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This is happening in Florida, and involves flying sturgeon, not Asian carp. As highlighted by the trustworthy news source fishingcrap.blogspot.com: The recent injury of two boaters by jumping gulf sturgeon brings the toll to 11 in the state this summer, according to more established news sources like The Gainesville Sun. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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8:40 pm in Business & Politics, drought, florida, usa, water crisis, west palm beach by TreeHugger
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With precious little water left in the reservoir serving West Palm Beach Florida, 100,000-some residents face an uncertain future. The metro area can, as an emergency measure, buy water from Palm Beach County. They may have to, as the Palm Beach Post indicates a 'significant threat exists to the public's health' posed by...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1:08 pm in activism, florida, food, poverty, united states by TreeHugger
We've seen dumpster divers arrested and handcuffed, and another scavenger even swooped on by police helicopter. In Orlando, Florida it's not the dumpster divers they are worried about—it's the people feeding the homeless. The Palm Beach Post reports that 5 activists from Food Not Bombs were arrested as they dished out soup for the homeless popula...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:17 am in fish, florida, global warming effects, oceans, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: Mark Zastrow under a Creative Commons License.
Beach goers descending on Florida's Atlantic Coast came face-to-tentacles with a greater force over Memorial Day weekend. Countless mauve stinger jellyfish covered a ten mile stretch of beach in Brevard County, and before the weekend was out, they had sent more than 1,600 vacationers to life guard stations to be treated for stings....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:00 am in Design & Architecture, florida, less is more, living with less by TreeHugger
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@aarieff tweets:
RT@builderonline Florida luxury builder finds success in small packages w/ 14-unit development http://go.hw.net/bxoxr 4000 sq ft is "small"?Good question! And the answer is, only in America, where there are two Great Recessions going on, the one where people lose their jobs and houses, and the one of the very rich, who still want " inlaid floors, tongue-and-groove ceilings, solid-core doors, and vestibules," but maybe, well, in keeping with the times, a little bit less of them. Instead of mansions, they want "jewel boxes." ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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