December 2011
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Green Holiday Tips
ecofriendlyhealth:
Make Your Own Wrapping Paper
Most mass-produced wrapping paper you find in stores is not recyclable and ends up in landfills. Instead, here’s a great chance to get creative! Wrap presents with old maps, the comics section ofa newspaper, or children’s artwork. Or use a scarf, attractive dish towel, bandana, or some other useful cloth item. If every family wrapped just three...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Virgin Atlantic Squeezing Jet Fuel Out Of... →
“The airline is using technology from LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels that captures and chemically treats industrial waste from steel mills and turns it into ethanol that can be converted into biofuel (see the video below). Virgin claims that LanzaTech’s process has major potential—the technique could be retrofitted onto 65% of the world’s steel mills, which could produce...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Make Four Homemade Cleaners Using Natural... →
greengardenhome:
WILL be making these!!
MIT Unveils Solar Power System That Doesn't Need... →
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June 2011
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April 2011
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“The U.S. wastes approximately 40 percent of the food produced in America —...”
– Waste Not, Want Not: How to Waste Less Food - Planet Green
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Cleaning
Finding what cleansers are safe for the environment can be a headache.
My company is currently trying to get certified by a local Green agency, and to do so we need to review all of our cleaning supplies.
Cleansers end up going down the drain, so this agency require that all our cleaners are bio-degradable. We assumed that “Simple Green” was, well… “green”, and...
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“In 14 and a half seconds, the sun provides as much energy to Earth as humanity...”
– Quote found in an article written by Ramez Naam, CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, appearing in Scientific American titled “Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?
via horizonwatching
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March 2011
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Pepsi Designs 100% Plant-Based Bottle - Made of... →
“PepsiCo has developed the world’s first plastic bottle made of nothing but renewable, plant-based materials, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The bottle is made from corn husks, switch grass, and pine bark; but in the future, Pepsi hopes to use its food byproducts like orange and potato peels. Pepsi will start a pilot program with the bottles next year.”
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February 2011
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January 2011
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The Ceiling Lights That Provide Internet Access |... →
“You could soon be getting your internet at the speed of light! Well, not literally, but one company is divising a system that uses LED ceiling lights to transmit data (namely the internet) to computers equipped with special sensors. What this means is that light waves could potentially replace radio waves as a method of transmitting data, since lights can ‘flick’ data faster than the eye...
December 2010
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Mobilize for a Walkable America →
doitdoitdoitnow:
http://www.americawalks.org/nationalwalkingvision/
Vision Statement for a Walkable America
By 2020, walking in everyday life is embraced across America. Streets and neighborhoods are safe and attractive public places that encourage people of all ages, abilities, ethnicities, and incomes to walk for exercise, recreation, and transportation. Walkable community policies...
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November 2010
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Study: Wi-Fi Makes Our Trees Sick →
infoneer-pulse:
Data centers hum day and night. More often than ever before we connect to these cloud environments through Wi-Fi networks.
According to PCWorld, now it looks like the radiation from Wi-Fi networks is making our trees sick, “causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark.”
All deciduous trees in the Western hemisphere are affected by...
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Leaving Computers on Overnight Costs $2.8 Billion... →
Don’t forget the first ‘R’ of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
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Clark Howard: Most green products have no evidence... →
“Should you pay extra for a product that claims to be good for the environment? Not according to a new study that finds wholesale lying about green claims on more than 5,000 goods. ”The Wall Street Journal reports an environmental-marketing company called TerraChoice has found that more than 95% of products they looked at contained ‘no proof of environmental claims, vague...
Lake Washington Residence
averynice:
A beautiful home that uses all natural ventilation!
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so when do we move in?
October 2010
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“It’s been calculated that every kilometer someone cycles in Copenhagen, the city...”
– Monocle (via jxnblk)