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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

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Minnesota is considering new restrictions on gathering mushrooms in state parks for personal use, too. Wild chanterelles were recently selling for $32 a pound at Far West Fungi, a popular mushroom store in San Francisco, while porcinis fetched $56 a pound and morels for $36 per pound. Foraged produce can be pricey.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Carl ZEISS Industry Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. University of Minnesota. This will allow a.

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