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POPSUrban Gardener Thinks Higher: A Rooftop Garden for Room to Grow Why should you consider a rooftop garden? * Increase access to private outdoor green space within the urban environment * Support urban food production * Promote individual, community, and cultural diversity * Improve air quality and reduce CO2 missions * Delay stormwater runoff * Increase habitat for birds * Insulate buildings * Increase the value of buildings for owners and tenants alike * Create job opportunities in the field of research, design, construction, Iandscaping, gardening, health, and food production
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POPSHomophobia Just Under the Surface What a shame. Here is an area of New Jersey, that on the surface seemed to be perfectly comfortable with its gays residence, without exception. However, once gay rights became enshrined into law, the surface cracked and out flowed hateful discrimination based on homophobia. Talk about thin skinned support and values.
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POPSCtrl,Alt,Del if you've heard this joke before Reminds me of a laugh track. Give computers a sense of humor ? A sense of humor is helped by knowing that something is funny, that there are others that agree, and the generally agree for the same reason. An expression of community. It can depend on the infectiousness of laughter. Some of the funniest jokes are about things that cannot be programmed. Like, when you had to be there. They don't need programmers who think they are comedians, they need comedians who think they can program. One big problem. Computers aren't funny hillarious, but sometimes they're funny peculiar, as in, funny how it crashed just before I did a backup.
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POPS Community Partnerships Project for the Guardian - pics Journalist spends two weeks every month reporting on Amref’s Katine Community Partnerships Project for the Guardian – a three-year development programme to improve the lives of the 25,000 inhabitants of Katine sub-county in rural Uganda. On his most recent trip, Richard recorded some of the many surprising moments he experiences while interacting with the people of Katine
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POPSCommunity Fruit Harvesting What a cool idea! I was just this morning thinking about this after reading an Edmonton FullCircles offer to pick unharvested rasberries.
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POPSCalorie-Count.com- from About.com Very comprehensive, thorough, easy to navigate and , best of all, it's totally free. I use this and love it. I can access it from work and home to log in what I eat. I go to a nutritionist and bring printouts from this site.. She is quite impressed.
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POPSCommunity Garden Slide Show This is an 8 minute success story slide show featuring a downtown, urban community garden project in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks to Pauline Gabriel, Regina.FullCircles.org, for bringing the project to our attention. /e
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POPSAmerican Horticultural Assn. homepage Sounds stodgy and boring, I know, but you should join. They have great programs, plus you get free admission to public gardens, nature centers, and arboretums around the U.S.
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