A New York company called Veles is selling an all-purpose cleaner made of food waste collected from Manhattan cafeterias, and ditches plastic spray bottles.

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Rather than just delivering milk to people's doorsteps, Loop is creating a circular delivery of groceries with all packaging being washed and reused.

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The masks had been left in the warehouse of the Swedish store to gather dust following the most recent bird flu outbreak.

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Kroger, which is the largest supermarket chain in the US by revenue, has now given their employees two different bonuses for their work during the pandemic.

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The Swedish furniture chain published the ingredients and instructions for the saucy meatball dish to their social media pages this week.

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Though it’s difficult for food banks to stock this item, nutrient-dense milk is one of the most-often requested items. Now, in these critical times, the Kroger grocery store chain has ramped-up its Dairy Rescue Program, one that takes donated excess raw milk normally sold to restaurants or hotels, which is now going to waste, and […]

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Up to 3,000 people gathered in Munich, Germany, on May 9 to demonstrate against the restrictions put in place throughout the country to stem the spread of the coronavirus, according to local outlet TAG24. TAG24 reported that the protest had only been registered for 80 people. A larger crowd of people assembled, as this video shot in the central Marienplatz area of Munich shows. Similar protests took place across Germany on the same day in cities such as Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremburg. No violence was reported. On May 6, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced steps to ease the country’s coronavirus lockdown and introduced a new “emergency mechanism” that can be triggered by regional authorities to contain local Covid-19 outbreaks. As of May 9, Germany had over 171,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, and 7,525 deaths, according to figures published in Tagesspiegel. Credit: @Franzisker2 via Storyful

Visibility in parts of southern Ontario, Canada, was severely affected as a snow squall blanketed areas of the province — including the town of Barrie — on May 9, reports said . A frost advisory notice was issued for the area by the Canadian government, warning that “near or below freezing temperatures” were expected through Wednesday, May 13. Reports said that the unseasonable snowfall can be attributed to a polar vortex sweeping over the region. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a video of snow falling outside his Ontario home, saying, “It’s May 9. Cut it out.” This video, filmed by local resident Tom Eves, shows a snow squall in Barrie, north of Toronto. “Well what can you do but laugh,” wrote Eves on Twitter. Credit: Tom Eves via Storyful

One of my passions as a councillor and a key commitment to my community was to simplify local government processes and clarify what as unnecessarily complex. Break the obfuscation nexus, you may say.

Did you do it? Did you download? Did you trust the federal government enough to let them trace your extended interactions with your phone?

These two siblings from New Jersey have managed to raise more than $2,200 in order to benefit their local businesses and healthcare workers.

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Aussies are finally looking forward to a return to normality after Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a three-step plan to a COVIDSafe Australia yesterday afternoon.

The Silvies Valley Ranch is an example of using local innovation to combat the global problem of incised streams on rangelands. Incised channels reduce the flow between water in the channel and water in the surrounding soils, which reduces the vegetation available for wildlife habitat and cattle forage. One of the ranch owners, Scott Campbell, a doctor of veterinary medicine, believes that stream incision is related to the decline of beaver populations; thus, the ranch’s approach to restoration includes efforts to mimic beavers’ influence on the system. He is using an extensive network of low-rise dams made from locally available materials (dirt, gravel, rock, and logs), commonly referred to as “artificial beaver dams” (ABDs). Campbell said that the ABDs on the ranch successfully increased stream connectivity to their floodplains and increased the quantity and forage quality of wet meadows on the property, with no changes in where cattle were grazing. The experiences of this landowner exemplify a unique approach that provides a model for others facing similar challenges to doing restoration on private land. The transformation taking place on the Silvies Valley Ranch has garnered the attention of neighboring ranch owners, some of whom are beginning to experiment with similar restoration technologies. Campbell would like to continue installing structures, but has encountered numerous roadblocks in the permitting process. He has since taken an active role in building legislative support for the ABD technology being used on the ranch, and in facilitating its adoption in other places. This case study—based on interviews with stakeholders involved in the Silvies Valley Ranch project—highlights the social benefits and challenges experienced by one rancher using ABDs as a restoration tool, and provides insights for improving their use in the future. It is part of a larger interdisciplinary study that explores the potential of different beaver-related restoration approaches for achieving watershed restoration and livestock production goals on rangelands in the Western United States.

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Interest in landscape-scale approaches to fire management and forest restoration is growing with the realization that these approaches are critical to maintaining healthy forests and protecting nearby communities. However, coordinated planning and action across multiple ownerships have been elusive because of differing goals and forest management styles among landowners. Scientists with the Pacific Northwest Research Station and their colleagues recognized that working at the landscape scale requires integrating the biophysical, social, and economic dimensions of the problem, and this necessitates collecting new types of information and inventing new tools.

A fluid layout with max/min width, header/footer and multiple percentage columns ALL reaching the footer using NO images.

An update to one of my early gallery demonstrations to bring it up to date using the latest CSS techniques.

A photograph gallery with hover to show large images with linking to full size images or another page.

A photograph gallery using just html/css to switch the contents of an 'object' for browsers that understand and an iframe alternative for IE.

A conversion of the horizontal scrolling gallery into a vertical version.

A mixed gallery using just html/css to switch the contents of an 'object'. The content can be text, images, shockwave/flash and quicktime movie.

A gallery using a horizontal scrolling filmstrip containing negative/positive thumbnails and landscape/portrait large images with show/hide descriptive text.

As promised, the previous filmstrip gallery rotated into a vertical format with a few enhancements.

A simple hover over thumbnail gallery with a zoom feature.

Afer all this time there is finally a dropdown menu that doesn't use javascript, table, conditional comments, hacks, extra markup and works in all the major browsers including IE6.

A click gallery in which the large image is permanently on screen until another image is chosen EVEN when refreshing the page.

A CSS slide show using numbers with a hover/click state but with the controls only visible when reqired.

A method of creating irregular shaped image maps with ease exploiting an odd effect when using Microsofts AlphaImageLoader to render background PNG images. Only for IE though.

A click gallery using 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons to navigate, in which the large image is permanently on screen until another image is chosen EVEN when refreshing the page. With descriptive text and linking option.

A click gallery using 'Previous' and 'Next' preview images to navigate, in which the large image is permanently on screen until another image is chosen EVEN when refreshing the page. With descriptive text and linking option.

A click gallery using a sliding set of thumbnail images to navigate. The large image is permanently on screen until another image is chosen EVEN when refreshing the page. With descriptive text and linking option.

The previous gallery but with the thumbnails arranged vertically instead of horizontal.

A dropline menu using a totally NEW method that requires NO hacks and works in all browsers. Also allows tabbing.

Using CSS3 styles to produce a zoom/fade-in photo gallery.

Using CSS3 to parallax scroll text.

Using CSS3 general sibling selector to produce a left/right click gallery.

Using CSS3 adjacent sibling selector to produce a Clickbox Gallery.

Using FaST to create a gallery for any size images.

A simple photo gallery with CSS3 enhancements to rival javascript versions.

A simple picture gallery with CSS3 enhancements and pictures of various sizes.

A series of three galleries using timeAction for IE7 and IE8 only.

A simple gallery which uses CSS3 to produce an up/down image slide animation.

Using CSS3 to rotate, slide and enlarge a set of images.

Using the CSS3 page flip routine to produce a page flip gallery.

Using :before/:after and content: together with the general sibling selector to produce a CSS only gallery of 100 images with all the image information in the stylesheet.

Using CSS3 Keyframes to produce an animated gallery, for Safari, Chrome and the New Firefox v5.

Using CSS3 Keyframes to produce an animated 'lightbox' type gallery, for Safari, Chrome and the New Firefox 5.

Using CSS3 transitions to produce a left/right sliding gallery.

Using CSS3 to animate a left/right click gallery with sliding thumbnail images

Using CSS3 to animate a left/right click gallery with sliding large images