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A custodian of the past, the National Trust is now looking to the future by promoting sustainable living and grow-your-own foodHughenden Manor, outside High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, is an unremarkable red-brick Georgian pile, famous for its views to the Chilterns and for being the home of Victorian prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. It is full of grand staircases, panelled rooms, polished furniture, heavy curtains and dark portraits. But if it's real, messy life you are after at Hughenden, you are advised to skip the corridors of power and the manicured lawns, and head to the huge 18th-century walled vegetable garden at the back. As Hughenden is a National Trust (NT)property, you can either just walk round and admire the spuds and asparagus spears, or - far more fun- join in. The great house, which used to have dozens of professional gardeners, is now part of a community gardening scheme, with children, families and disabled people all using the vegetable gardens to grow their own.Ev

Despite being considered critically endangered in the west, in China it is still legal to farm Asiatic black bears for their bile - and only the lucky few escape. Plus see our related feature

In a surprise U-turn, the Republican senator has put forward a bill to review the dangers of black carbon to health and the environmentHe has called global warming a hoax, compared the Environmental Protection Agency with the Gestapo, and over the years dismissed Al Gore as desperate and 'full of crap'. So it was startling when America's arch climate change denier came out ahead of the green curve in the fight to save the Arctic and other icy regions.Could James Inhofe, a conservative Republican senator from Oklahoma, be the newest recruit to Barack Obama's green revolution?Inhofe, in a surprise move, joined Democratic senators in putting forward a bill for an official review of the dangers of soot or 'black carbon' to public health and the environment late last month.'Black carbon ... is thought to be the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide,' the bill said. It gave experts from the Environmental Protection Agency a year to make suggestions to Congress on

The May edition of Your True Tales is here! 25 chilling stories of ghost, doppelgangers and mystical experiences, including: 'Black-Eyed Couple,' 'Voice from the Grave,' 'In Bed with a Doppelganger,'...

Unlike compartmentalized programs, the Developing Families Center in Washington D.C. brings social and medical services under one roof--and offers better outcomes for the predominantly African American community it serves.