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In 1993, Carl Leopold, the William H. Crocker Scientist Emeritus at BTI partnered up with some of his colleagues at the Ithaca’s Tropical Forestry Initiative to start this Costa Rican rain forest restoration research [...]

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People waste tons and tons of food every year tossing away left overs and table scraps into trash bins. While that’s the easiest way to get rid of food waste it’s not the best way. Without much effort you can keep your food waste out of landfills where it’s useless and at the [...]

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Every year spring comes a bit faster and then summers follows a little faster then the year before. I’ll be saving the doom and gloom for another post. I’m here to talk about having fun and throwing parties. Spring is a beautiful time of year everything is in bloom, the birds are [...]

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You’d think that those who make the trip to trek up Mount Everest would want to leave it pristine and beautiful.  That doesn’t seem to be the case though as a Nepali airline just finished hauling out 17 tons of trash in the form of beer bottles, plastic packets and cans.  I was under the [...]

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Picture by Tannis Toohey/Toronto StarWhalePower Corp. is a Toronto based company who with the help of nature has developed a more efficient fan blade.  Scientists in the US have long studied whales and found that the tubercles on the Humpback Whales fins create 32% less drag and 8% more lift then the smooth fins found [...]

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