Breezy home design for artist couple boasts a green roof of succulents

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Reward offered to identify Mojave burro killer

It seems like an idyllic life for the 120 burros living free in California's Mojave Desert. Until some deranged miscreant comes along and murders one-third of your community. Such a person has picked off 42 members of the Clark Mountain herd since May. Now the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and animal rights groups have pooled their funds to offer nearly $60,000 in reward money. "The cruelty involved in shooting these burros and leaving them to die warrants prosecution to the fullest extent of...

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Trailhead Ambassador Program enhances hiking in Oregon

Instead of simply griping about miscreants, some parks and wilderness areas have developed constructive ways to educate the public and make recreation safer and more fun for everybody.

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Rural, modular home in Mexico allows for a wide variety of configurations

Not only is Casa Hilo a flexible, low-cost, modular construction, but it is also a model for sustainable rural home design in that its materials (including locally made adobe) were chosen to create a strong thermal mass to withstand Mexico's harsh summer climate.

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Find vegan restaurants using Yelp's updated, personalized app

Feel like feasting on a batch of sweet potato fries and a thick soy milkshake? Maybe a tempeh sandwich from the best vegan cafe in your 'burb? Yelp’s updated, personalized mobile app makes finding a vegan restaurant near you easy.

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High-tech public toilets proposed for San Francisco can recycle rainwater for reuse

The San Francisco Department of Public Works (DPW) has crowned SmithGroup the winner of its design competition for public toilet proposals.

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Millions of acres of Alaskan rainforest may be opened for business

As Amazon wildfires blaze, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest faces a wholly different threat: corporate exploitation.

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