Is your grandmother’s mink stored away in the attic? Maybe not, but with so many people relegating fur coats — theirs, or a loved one’s — to the back of the closet, the Humane Society hopes to round up piles of pelts in their renewed Coats for Cubs recycling program.

Wildlife rehabilitators know that injured baby possums and orphaned raccoons naturally respond when their boxes are lined with remnants of fur clothing.

The Humane Society along with second-hand retailer Buffalo Exchange will host another fur recycling initiative, which provides bedding and comfort to orphaned and injured wildlife and also offers the added benefit of a tax credit for those who donate. (Watch the video below.)

The University of Tennessee is claiming a big victory this football season, no matter what scoring takes place on the field.

Last year, UT Recycling, the campus crew in charge of recycling, collected 35 tons of cans, bottles, plastic and paper during the football season. But this year, with 500 recycling bins in tailgate areas alone, up from 125 last year, the effort is on track to redirect a record 50 tons of material that would otherwise end up in landfills.

Jewish women have never been allowed to create a Torah, or even buy the parchment.

But this week, a Seattle group spearheaded by Wendy Graff has completed the first known Torah scribed by women. The project, which has been a collaboration of women from around the world, has cost $100,000 and taken nearly eight years to complete.

Earlier in the week, women arrived from Israel, Brazil, Canada and across the United States to witness the 62 parchment panels of the Women’s Torah Project being stitched together. Yesterday the women read from it during a Sabbath service for the first time at Hillel UW, near the University of Washington campus.

(WATCH the video below, and read the story w/ photos in the Seattle Times)

Photo: The project paid for the training of scribes, like Shoshana-Gugenheim.