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Floating Solar: Catching Some Rays on the Water

Aug 15, 2019

Installing floating solar panels on only a quarter of U.S. manmade reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of national energy needs.

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Beyond Antibiotics: Pets Can Heal With Natural Approaches

Jun 28, 2019 ● By Karen Shaw Becker

Antibiotics for pets can carry considerable downsides, so it's worth exploring natural options like herbs, homeopathy and nutritional interventions with a holistic or integrative vet.

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Alice Robb on the Transformative Power of Dreams

Jun 28, 2019

We can teach ourselves first to recall our dreams and then to influence them to enhance our inner growth and creativity, says the author.

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Help For Home Gardeners: Extension Agents at Your Service

Jun 28, 2019 ● By Yvette C. Hammett

Nationwide, local extension agents offer soil testing and instruction in organic methods, making rain barrels, choosing native plants and a host of low-cost and no-cost services.

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Eco-Friendly Outdoor Eating: Save Resources, Reduce Food Waste and More

Jun 28, 2019

It’s eco-wise to fill our picnic basket with bamboo utensils, plant-based bug repellents, sustainable fish and glass containers.

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Eat Mostly Plants to Ease Gum Inflammation: Oral Health Benefits

Jun 28, 2019

Germans that ate a diet low in meat and carbs and high in plants and vitamins for four weeks had significantly less gum inflammation and bleeding that subjects that did not change their eating habits.

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Crops in the City: Urban Agriculture Breaks New Ground

Jun 28, 2019 ● By April Thompson

Entrepreneurial innovators are tapping into new technologies and markets to grow fresh, healthy food within cities, turning so-called ‘mean streets’ into ‘green streets.’

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Dangerous Dozen: Produce to Avoid

Jun 28, 2019

Strawberries head the latest list of the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables with high levels of pesticide residues; avocados top the clean list.

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Wonder Weed: Hemp to the Rescue at Detox Sites

Jun 28, 2019

Hemp, the no-buzz industrial variety of cannabis, is cleaning nuclear radiation, cadmium, lead and mercury from toxic sites.

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Get Eyes Checked to Detect Early Alzheimer’s: Optometry's Link to Brain Health

Jun 28, 2019

New infrared technology allows doctors to detect the weakened blood vessels at the back of the eye associated with early Alzheimer’s.

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Action Alert: Greenhouse Gases Hit Landmark

Jun 28, 2019

When carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit the highest levels ever recorded in human history in May, the networks’ nightly news devoted less than two minutes to climate change versus almost 18 minutes to the birth of the royal baby.

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Sunny Solution: Wastewater Turned into Hydrogen Fuel

Jun 28, 2019

A Princeton University team has designed a device that uses sunlight to pull hydrogen from industrial wastewater, which could allow factories to simultaneously treat wastewater and generate fuel.

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Take B12 to Help With Parkinson’s: Vitamin Slows Progression

Jun 28, 2019

The common vitamin B12 may help slow the progression of both hereditary and non-hereditary Parkinson’s Disease, new studies show.

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Munch Nuts for a Healthy Brain: Improves Cognitive Functions

Jun 28, 2019

Chinese seniors that ate more than two teaspoons of nuts a day were found to have better thinking, reasoning and memory than those that didn’t eat nuts.

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