photo: McKay Savage via flickr. The southern Indian state of Kerala has officially announced a new farming policy which aims to covert all agriculture in the state to organic methods over the next ten years. In the first phase 30,000 hectares converted, The Hindu Business Line reports, and then proceeds in a “phased and compact manner.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Indian State of Kerala Starts 10-Year Conversion to All-Organic Agriculture

Design Kug Designer Sung Kug Kim (one of the hot new best in British Design ) uses the latest CNC technology to create these scary antler handlebars out of pipe and walnut…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nobody Will Get Near You When You Ride with DesignKug’s Bi-King Handlebars

Image credit: 10:10 Campaign Late last year, the UK Conservative Party pledged to cut government CO2 emissions 10% in one year if it came to power. Now we’re going to see how they plan to do it. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New UK Coalition Commits to 10% Government CO2 Cuts in One Year

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How Do We Get Oil? Fake Science Has the Answers

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar speaking at a press conference on oil drilling safety. Photo: MMS Coming in from a number of sources, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced that the Mineral Management Service will be split into two parts: One to manage and collect revenue ($14 billion in annual royalties) from federal oil and gas leases and the other to inspect and enforce environmental and safety regulations on these. Prior to this both competing functions were handled in the same department…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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No More Fox Watching the Henhouse – Salazar Splits Up Mineral Management Service

Image by author Roger K. Lewis In most of North America, we think that “Transit Oriented Development” is a great step forward over the auto-centric development of the last sixty years. Architect and Professor Roger K. Lewis suggests in the Washington Post that it is too simplistic a view, and that we have to think multi-modal. And that includes walking. He asks: “How can we encourage and enable more walking? What will motivate people to change long-standing perceptions and deeply engrained behavior? We must plan and develop — or redevelop — metropolitan environments so walking becomes safe, comfortable, enjoyable and stimulating…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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It Is Time To Go Beyond Transit And Get Multi-Modal Planning

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Ryan Calsbeek and Robert Cox, evolutionary biologists at Dartmouth University, are not mad scientists bent in the image of H.G. Wells’ Doctor Moreau, but they have commandeered a string of islands in the Bahamas to act as a real-world laboratory…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bahama Islands Commandeered as Evolutionary Biology Lab

This weekend I had an astonishing amount of asparagus ends, wild leek roots and leaves and fiddlehead stalks. Literally pounds of the stuff that I couldn’t bring myself to throw out. I had to do something with all that stuff…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: A Great Use For Those Veggie Ends

Image credit: Autoblog Green We already know that maintaining proper tire pressure means better gas mileage , and while some may have scoffed, I much preferred Obama’s enthusiasm for tire gauges than his ridiculously ill-timed expansion of offshore drilli… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Talking Tires" By 2013?

Darvaz: The Door to Hell, a drilling project gone wrong – collapsed natural gas dome burning 35 years in Uzbekistan. Image credit: English Russia blog People have a hard time accepting the fact that oil and gas deep in the earth is of biotic origin: pressure-stored plant material from the Carboniferous. So much so that there are crackpot alternate theories about extraterrestrial origin. And, of course, there’s always ‘ God put it there for us .’ (Too scary for them, perhaps, to accept a constantly-changing planet, of colliding plates floating ov… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Has British Petroleum Opened Another Door To Carboniferous Hell?