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Cycling Shorts? Not For These Sexy Riders!
Yes, that’s right, the 7th annual World Naked Bike Ride is approaching and you won’t need any cycling shorts or Lance Armstrong cycling clothes for this sexy (maybe) extravaganza. National Bike Month...
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World Naked Bike Ride Video from Portland
Great video of this year’s World Naked Bike Ride in Portland below. I wrote on the 2010 World Naked Bike ride awhile back here on Planetsave. Great, fun bicycling event. A friend of mine just shared...
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Japan Earthquake & Tsunami (Top News & Resources)
Top news & resources on Japan earthquake & tsunami Japan Earthquake & Tsunami (Top News & Resources) was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands...
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Ice Age Carbon Came Not from the Pacific
A new study has found that the Northeast Pacific was not an important reservoir for the carbon that is believed to be responsible for the end of the last Ice Age, throwing scientists back to the...
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Pumping Water into a (Dormant) Volcano to Make Power — Newest Geothermal Project
[Updated article, Jan. 18, 2012, with correction, see end note] Geothermal power has had a few setbacks in recent years: technical challenges and concerns that high-pressure pumping of water onto...
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Scientists Explain Why Mount Hood Doesn't Explode Like The Others
At over half a million years old, Mount Hood stands tall over the Oregon landscape, a volcano that has not erupted like so many of its cousins in the Cascade Mountains and throughout the Pacific Ring...
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Historic "Wave Energy" Power Station Set To Begin Development In Oregon Waters
In a little-noticed breakthrough for sustainable, non-fossil-fuel electricity generation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last month issued the first-ever license for a wave power...
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Oregon Wolf Dies In Idaho (Sister Of California Wolf)
The Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife keeps a fascinating Web page on their site to track the events in the lives of the Imnaha wolf pack. The December 29, 2011 entry says OR-7, a male, entered...
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Vegan Supermarket Comes To US
Originally published on Eat Drink Better. By Jill Ettinger Long-time vegans would say it’s about time. And the wait is almost over for a store that only sells vegan food. That’s right. A vegan...
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Hydroelectric Power From City Water Supply
LucidEnergy, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that launched in 2007, has devised a system to get hydroelectric power from city water supply pipes. A pilot project in Riverside, California is in...
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Halt Oil Trains In Washington & Oregon
Originally published on the ECOreport. The oil train you see above may be one of the last to pass through Hood River, Oregon. Last month, a near-catastrophic derailment/fire occurred in the...
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Energy Storage Mandate In Massachusetts
A new law will now provide Massachusetts with the third US energy storage mandate. Look for storage legislation to gain favor in the upcoming years. “Irrespective of the eventual target, Massachusetts...
View ArticleActivists Pry for Truth at Sea Lion Killing Press Conference
Why kill sea lions instead of lowering allowed fishing quotas? This question and others were left unanswered at a press conference today. Activists with In Defense of Animals and the… The post...
View ArticleHSUS Again Sues to Stop the Columbia River Sea Lion Cull
The Humane Society of the United States has returned to court in attempt to stop the sea lion cull near the Bonneville Dam in Washington and Oregon. [social_buttons] Hundreds of… The post HSUS Again...
View ArticleNine Snow Monkeys Escape from Oregon Animal Testing Lab
Nine monkeys escaped from an Oregon Health & Science University animal testing lab after a cage was left unlocked. Four were shortly re-captured and four others have been spotted on… The post Nine...
View ArticleThe Greening of Paint
[social_buttons] Oregon this summer became the first state to enact in law a product stewardship law for the collection of leftover consumer paint. The pilot program, which expires in 2014,… The post...
View ArticleMountains Add to What We Don’t Know about the Climate
A new study to be published in the International Journal of Climatology concludes that predicting the effects of global warming in the future could be significantly affected by mountains....
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View ArticlePros and Cons of Wave Power | Wave Power Advantages
Wave power could be one of the world’s most abundant source of renewable energy, as oceans cover more than 70% of the earth’s surface and hold onto a large amount of… The post Pros and Cons of Wave...
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