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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

Baua Electric

Although most national parks ban commercial foraging, about three-fourths allow people to explore and collect their favorite crops for personal use. Individual parks set limits each year, some like Death Valley in California and Nevada restrict the collection of foods like nuts and berries to a quart a day, and only for personal consumption.

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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

EV Driver

Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

Cars That Think

Many IEEE members credit a parent or a teacher for encouraging them to pursue an engineering career, but for Erol Gelenbe it was his next-door neighbor in his hometown of Ankara, Turkey. Because electrical engineering uses a lot of mathematics, a subject Gelenbe liked, he figured he wouldn’t be wasting his time by studying EE.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

I’m not going to – ” Someone wearing a goofy Thanksgiving turkey mask leaned forward and loudly whispered “Don’t be a f **g climate chicken. “Well maybe not you, personally… If you help us.” Don’t you want to meet Hayduke, Doc and Bonnie?” “Hey, slow down! We are so screwed.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Marriyam, from Goa, Portugal was the Christian one and Rukaiya Begum, the Muslim one was from Turkey. And then there was his personal staff - Purshottam Das who was Akbar's astrologer. I feel standardised packaging is the best way forward to reduce the solid waste problems that our cities face. Expensive games!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. I appreciate big government green initiatives but inherent in that is slow movement and wasteful spending.

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