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Entries Tagged as 'Enlightening'

KKR Cashing in on the Environment: Good for All?

May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Environmental Defense Fund Announce First-of-Its-Kind ?Green Portfolio? Partnership - Environmental Defense Fund

Leading Private Equity Firm to Improve Environmental Performance of Portfolio Companies and Internal Operations

Posted: 01-May-2008; Updated: 01-May-2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(New York, NY - May 1, 2008) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts […]

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Tags: Environment · Enlightening · US

Plants Raw and Cooked : Ethnic Food near the NY Botanical Garden

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Cuisines in Bloom - New York Times

Published: May 4, 2008

DUKAGJINI BUREKTORJA
(718) 822-8955; 758 Lydig Avenue (Wallace Avenue), Pelham Parkway; $; Article: 5/18/05.
This Albanian place may be the only restaurant in the city devoted entirely to bureks: savory pies that are the Balkans’ answer to pizza. They are convincingly good, stuffed with meat, spinach, or feta […]

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Tags: Northeast · Public Gardens · Enlightening

Beetles Love Weed: They Control Loosestrife for a Song

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

National Invasive Species Information Center What’s New

Recent Weed Science Society of America Press Releases: Beetles Help Take a Bite out […]

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Tags: Private Gardens · Public Lands · Enlightening · Insects · Sustainability · Invasive Plants · US

Darwin at the New York Botanical Garden

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

At Botanical Garden: What Darwin Saw Out Back - New York Times - Annotated

By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: April 25, 2008

Damon Winter/The New York Times
Orchids on display at the New York Botanical Garden recall the varieties Darwin studied and the role they played in his future naturalist theories.

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Tags: Public Gardens · History · Enlightening · New York NY · Plants · The New York Times

guerrilla gardeners

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

The secret life of guerrilla gardeners | Environment | The Guardian - Annotated

Around the world, a shadowy army of plant lovers is on a mission: to make their dull, grey neighbourhoods more beautiful places to live. Armed with seedbombs and spades, these green-fingered outlaws are stealthily filling neglected public land with flowers and shrubs.

Richard Reynolds

Friday […]

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Tags: Enlightening