"This 5 year old male was a pet in a home, and now lives at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. This little guy had been given an apple to eat, and seems to act more like a puppy than a porcupine!"

"If youve spent any time watching the Zoos North American river otters or our Asian small-clawed otters, youve probably noticed that otters seem almost as home in the water as most fish. But, did you know that otters have to be taught how to swim? Otter pups arent born with any innate knowledge of how to swim or handle themselves in the water. And since otters depend on water to survive, mom has to teach her babies how to be as home in the water as they are on land.

Gone seem to be the days of good, lively debate. Recently there has been a ton of slapfighting between politicians, pundits, and the public.

"It's all about the food.

"Contrary to popular practice, big parties don't need to mean big waste. Here are a few ways to green your Super Bowl party.

JNF: 240 million trees planted since 1901

"The incoming Obama administration is "closely monitoring" the innovative electric car project being developed by Israel's Better Place company, "and may be adopting it," Idan Ofer, chairman of Better Place, has told The Jerusalem Post.

"Manitoba's NDP government and the province's hydro utility said Monday they have signed a deal to develop what would be the largest wind farm in Canada, near St. Joseph in southern Manitoba.

"The project is worth more than $800 million and would generate 300 megawatts of electricity from 130 turbines. The farm is being developed by Babcock & Brown Canada ULC, which is to sell the power to Manitoba Hydro.

Two small nations on opposite sides of the globe are building world class renewable energy proejcts. In Portugal they're constructing what will become, temporarily at least, the largest solar generating plant on earth. It's going into eastern Portugal near the town of Moura. This photovoltaic farm is being built in the sunniest spot in continental Europe. Portugal aims to generate over 30% of its own power from renewable sources by the year 2020. It's already among the leaders in Europe.

The presence of that foreword by Al Gore and the inclusion of his 1997 speech at the Kyoto conference on climate change alert us to the fact that writing about nature has nowadays largely been taken over by leftist scolds and prophets of doom, urging us to REPENT! or the end of a …

''Authorities say a Michigan City-area woman's tendency to turn off the heat to save energy probably contributed to her freezing to death.

By mapping out routes for its drivers and drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.

The Gulf Ethanol Corporation claims to have made a breakthrough in processing cellulosic ethanol, a form of fuel that is expected to be much more efficient and sustainable than corn-based ethanol.

The breakthrough? The "vortex implosion disintegrator," a technology developed by Meridian BioRefining that is described as a "high velocity, high pressure process" that can transform biomass into cellulose powder in a matter of seconds using "sudden polarity shifts" and "molecular repulsion."

'Experts say cellulosic ethanol's energy in-to-energy out ratio is much more favorable than corn ethanol''

Is it the real deal? Who knows. ...

The fourth annual International Water Technologies and Environmental Control Exhibition (WATEC) begins Tuesday in Tel Aviv, and will spotlight cutting-edge technologies aimed at managing the world's water resources, reducing global pollution and promoting the use of alternative energy.