document.write('<ul class="rss-items">');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/High_Sierras_The_Woods_are_Full_of_Gun_Toting_Narcofarmers" title="Marijuana patches have sprung up on a third of California\'s national parks and nearly 40 percent of all national forests. Where hippies once grew just enough weed to peace out, traffickers now cultivate more than 100,000 plants at a time on 30-acre terraces irrigated by plastic pipe, laced with illegal pesticides, and guarded by Mac-10s and Uzis." target="_self">High Sierras: The Woods are Full of Gun-Toting Narcofarmers</a><br /><div class="rss-body">Marijuana patches have sprung up on a third of California\'s national parks and nearly 40 percent of all national forests. Where hippies once grew just enough weed to peace out, traffickers now cultivate more than 100,000 plants at a time on 30-acre terraces irrigated by plastic pipe, laced with illegal pesticides, and guarded by Mac-10s and Uzis.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/San_Francisco_Plans_to_Grow_Produce_Almost_Everywhere" title="SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has ordered all city departments to conduct an audit of unused land--including empty lots,rooftops, windowsills and median strips--that could be turned into community gardens or farms. If the Mayor gets his way, you could just as well get an apple from the corner mart as from a tree growing on the street corner." target="_self">San Francisco Plans to Grow Produce Almost Everywhere</a><br /><div class="rss-body">SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has ordered all city departments to conduct an audit of unused land--including empty lots,rooftops, windowsills and median strips--that could be turned into community gardens or farms. If the Mayor gets his way, you could just as well get an apple from the corner mart as from a tree growing on the street corner.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/El_Nino_conditions_return_to_affect_U_S_weather" title="U.S. government scientists say El Nio, the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can influence weather around the world, has returned." target="_self">El Nino conditions return to affect U.S. weather </a><br /><div class="rss-body">U.S. government scientists say El Nio, the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can influence weather around the world, has returned.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Energy_Industry_Threatens_Water_Quality_Misleads_Congress" title="The industry is misleading the public into a false choice between the economy and the environment." target="_self">Energy Industry Threatens Water Quality, Misleads Congress</a><br /><div class="rss-body">The industry is misleading the public into a false choice between the economy and the environment.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/10_Wind_Turbines_Pushing_the_Limits_of_Design" title="Here are 10 incredible wind turbine designs that will \'blow\' your mind... Photos and videos included" target="_self">10 Wind Turbines Pushing the Limits of Design </a><br /><div class="rss-body">Here are 10 incredible wind turbine designs that will \'blow\' your mind... Photos and videos included</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/New_Robot_Designed_to_Remove_Trash_Pollution_From_Water" title="The WatCleaner has detectors on the bottom that monitor water for pollution, everything from basic garbage to oil, and clean the water. Absorbent socks on the top of the WatCleaner absorb oil and cleanse it." target="_self">New Robot Designed to Remove Trash & Pollution From Water</a><br /><div class="rss-body">The WatCleaner has detectors on the bottom that monitor water for pollution, everything from basic garbage to oil, and clean the water. Absorbent socks on the top of the WatCleaner absorb oil and cleanse it.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Town_bans_bottled_water" title="The Australian town of Bundanoon has voted to ban bottled water, just hours after the New South Wales Government announced its own H2O boycott." target="_self">Town bans bottled water</a><br /><div class="rss-body">The Australian town of Bundanoon has voted to ban bottled water, just hours after the New South Wales Government announced its own H2O boycott.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Google_Phone_Designers_To_Create_Autonomous_Electric_Car" title="In Possible Future Scenario #317-B, San Francisco industrial design firm Mike and Maaike presents the atnmbl (get it? – \"autonomobile\"). Less a car than an autonomous, seven-person mobile living room, the atnmbl is billed as a complete redesign of the car for those who believe that the ideal driving experience is not driving. " target="_self">Google Phone Designers To Create Autonomous Electric Car </a><br /><div class="rss-body">In Possible Future Scenario #317-B, San Francisco industrial design firm Mike and Maaike presents the atnmbl (get it? – \"autonomobile\"). Less a car than an autonomous, seven-person mobile living room, the atnmbl is billed as a complete redesign of the car for those who believe that the ideal driving experience is not driving. </div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/An_Eco_War_Is_Coming_to_Alaska_Salmon_vs_the_Gold_Miners" title="From piece: \"In one corner of Alaska\'s Bristol Bay, the sockeye salmon, a $300 million resource that\'s sustained fishermen like 29-year-old captain Lindsey Bloom for more than 100 years. In the other, the Pebble Mine, with its projected hundreds of billions in copper and gold. Get ready for the fiercest wilderness rumble since ANWR.\"" target="_self">An Eco-War Is Coming to Alaska: Salmon vs. the Gold Miners</a><br /><div class="rss-body">From piece: \"In one corner of Alaska\'s Bristol Bay, the sockeye salmon, a $300 million resource that\'s sustained fishermen like 29-year-old captain Lindsey Bloom for more than 100 years. In the other, the Pebble Mine, with its projected hundreds of billions in copper and gold. Get ready for the fiercest wilderness rumble since ANWR.\"</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Young_Gorillas_at_Play_in_the_Jungle_PIC" title="\"They squealed with laughter like little girls on a trampoline,\" recalls the author. But Kusu and Ekendy are all boy, climbing, tumbling, and shrieking in a very childlike way. All in good fun, play helps teach essential gorilla social skills. Click to enlarge... (Photo: Ian Nichols)" target="_self">Young Gorillas at Play in the Jungle (PIC)</a><br /><div class="rss-body">\"They squealed with laughter like little girls on a trampoline,\" recalls the author. But Kusu and Ekendy are all boy, climbing, tumbling, and shrieking in a very childlike way. All in good fun, play helps teach essential gorilla social skills. Click to enlarge... (Photo: Ian Nichols)</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Can_Ancient_Fossils_Predict_Future_Climate_Change" title="The first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases on Earth\'s temperature. " target="_self">Can Ancient Fossils Predict Future Climate Change? </a><br /><div class="rss-body">The first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases on Earth\'s temperature. </div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/G_8_Nations_Fail_to_Agree_on_Climate_Change_Plan" title="L’AQUILA, Italy — The world’s major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an effort to build a global consensus to fight climate change, according to people following the talks." target="_self">G-8 Nations Fail to Agree on Climate Change Plan</a><br /><div class="rss-body">L’AQUILA, Italy — The world’s major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an effort to build a global consensus to fight climate change, according to people following the talks.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Hippy_monkey_is_a_killer_when_starved_of_sex_2" title="The world\'s most peaceful primate is observed launching a lethal attack, giving clues to the origins of human gang warfare" target="_self">\'Hippy\' monkey is a killer when starved of sex</a><br /><div class="rss-body">The world\'s most peaceful primate is observed launching a lethal attack, giving clues to the origins of human gang warfare</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Huge_Coal_Dragline_Tiptoes_Around_the_Woods" title="Coal miners painstakingly picked their way around woody draws and a small lake to save a special place for wildlife and the public.......In this case, Falkirk Mining Co. miners picked their way with a dragline - on the scale of using an excavator to cut a birthday cake - to spare 14 acres of ash, oak and aspen trees and a 162-acre lake." target="_self">Huge Coal Dragline \'Tiptoes\' Around the Woods</a><br /><div class="rss-body">Coal miners painstakingly picked their way around woody draws and a small lake to save a special place for wildlife and the public.\\r\\rIn this case, Falkirk Mining Co. miners picked their way with a dragline - on the scale of using an excavator to cut a birthday cake - to spare 14 acres of ash, oak and aspen trees and a 162-acre lake.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Solar_Powered_Blimp_Set_to_Fly_Across_English_Channel" title="Perhaps propelled by the recent dawn of solar powered airplanes, this stunning solar powered blimp is poised to take flight by harnessing sunlight for fuel. Dubbed Nephelios, the solar-powered helium blimp was designed and built by high school engineering students in France." target="_self">Solar Powered Blimp Set to Fly Across English Channel</a><br /><div class="rss-body">Perhaps propelled by the recent dawn of solar powered airplanes, this stunning solar powered blimp is poised to take flight by harnessing sunlight for fuel. Dubbed Nephelios, the solar-powered helium blimp was designed and built by high school engineering students in France.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Time_to_head_to_the_storm_cellar_PIC" title="Vertical wide angle shot of a June 9 supercell near Dodge City, Kansas. Shot by Ryan McGinnis while travelling with Project Vortex 2, a two year science mission to study tornadoes." target="_self">Time to head to the storm cellar (PIC)</a><br /><div class="rss-body">Vertical wide angle shot of a June 9 supercell near Dodge City, Kansas. Shot by Ryan McGinnis while travelling with Project Vortex 2, a two year science mission to study tornadoes.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/Rice_Concrete_Cuts_Greenhouse_Emissions" title="A new way of processing rice husks for use in concrete could lead to a boom in green construction. Rice husks form small cases around edible kernels of rice and are rich in silicon dioxide (SiO2), an essential ingredient in concrete. Scientists have recognized the potential value of rice husks as a building material for decades.." target="_self">Rice Concrete Cuts Greenhouse Emissions</a><br /><div class="rss-body">A new way of processing rice husks for use in concrete could lead to a boom in green construction. Rice husks form small cases around edible kernels of rice and are rich in silicon dioxide (SiO2), an essential ingredient in concrete. Scientists have recognized the potential value of rice husks as a building material for decades..</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/China_blasts_US_climate_bill" title="\"China is firmly opposed to such measures,\" vice foreign minister He Yafei told reporters in Beijing. \"We are firmly against such attempts to advance trade protectionism under the pretext of climate change. It is not conducive to world economic recovery. It serves nobody\'s interests.\"" target="_self">China blasts US climate bill</a><br /><div class="rss-body">\"China is firmly opposed to such measures,\" vice foreign minister He Yafei told reporters in Beijing. \"We are firmly against such attempts to advance trade protectionism under the pretext of climate change. It is not conducive to world economic recovery. It serves nobody\'s interests.\"</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/A_real_life_Wall_E" title="Meet DustCart, a prototype robot that seems to have escaped from the animated movie “Wall-E.” As cute as it looks, it could revolutionize garbage collection throughout many small Italian towns where the traditional garbage truck gets stuck at tight turns in the road." target="_self">A real-life Wall-E</a><br /><div class="rss-body">Meet DustCart, a prototype robot that seems to have escaped from the animated movie “Wall-E.” As cute as it looks, it could revolutionize garbage collection throughout many small Italian towns where the traditional garbage truck gets stuck at tight turns in the road.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/environment/8_Game_Changing_Electric_Vehicle_Startups" title="These are the companies with the right mix of the right stuff -- business acumen, a great plug-in product and a marketing plan. Don\'t be surprised if at least one of these companies becomes as big as (or bigger than) General Motors." target="_self">8 Game-Changing Electric Vehicle Startups </a><br /><div class="rss-body">These are the companies with the right mix of the right stuff -- business acumen, a great plug-in product and a marketing plan. Don\'t be surprised if at least one of these companies becomes as big as (or bigger than) General Motors.</div></li>');document.write('</ul>');