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Repair on the Polihale State Park access road was put on the back burner by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources after costs were estimated at $4 million. In addition to the money the agency didn't have, the time frame was around two years. Many would wait for the government's help, but not the residents of Kauai.
DiscoveryGreen.com - the latest and greatest city project we've run across has been found in Houston, Texas. Only a year ago, this used to be simply a large asphalt parking lot in downtown, but it's been re-envisioned into an urban retreat for city dwellers. The parking lot is still there, but hidden underneath this new park.
Every year, we demolish 250,000 homes and bury the debris. What if all those floors and joists and beams were reused?
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Stanford Professor invents a green cement that could eliminate the huge amounts of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by the mfrs of the everyday cement used in concrete for buildings, roadways and bridges. His vision of eliminating a large source of the world's greenhouse CO{-2} has gained traction with both investors & environmentalists.
