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A New Leaf: Making Paper From Weeds

The giant reed (Arundo donax) is mostly green. It's a weed that looks a lot like bamboo. Native from the Mediterranean to India, the enormous grass colonizes stream beds of the coastal United States....

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Concrete Solutions for Climate Change

Is it possible green shoots are starting to appear in the concrete jungle? That's the prospect being dangled by California's Calera Corporation, which claims a concrete-making process that is not only...

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A Rock That Helps Out In a Hard Place

Folded into the mountains of northern Oman is a rare burst of peridotite rock. Viewed from above, its black-and-white striations make it look like a great scoop of marble fudge ice cream has been...

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Cooling the Asphalt Jungle

The asphalt jungle is due for a makeover as tar beach becomes a sanctuary for native plants, wildflowers and winged pollinators. Like mushrooms after a spring rain, "green roofs" are proliferating on...

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Tempest in a Cement Mixer

Calera Corporation sparked a lot of media attention (including at Miller-McCune.com) with its claims for carbon neutral, or even carbon-negative, cement produced primarily by bubbling industrial carbon...

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The Making of the Ocean Health Index

If all goes well, when a scientific paper is published and the media pick up on the story, a lot of effort gets boiled down into a soundbite. New cure for cancer discovered. Water found on Mars. Fish...

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