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From Egregious to Green: 5 CEOs Who Made an Environmental U-Turn
Image courtesy of Chiefport A chief executive officer wields an awesome power over his companies policies, employees and principlesand just how sustainable each will be. So when a previously ungreen CEO decides to adopt an ecologically responsible agenda, the effects can be wide-reaching, and e ...
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Little Portland Cottages Built from "Found Objects"
These cottages in Portland, Oregon are cute and sized right at about 364 square feet, but builders Jeffrey Gantert and Brad Bloom also demonstrate how a little ingenuity and humor make cheap and found materials a lot more interesting than buying new. According to Ruth Mullen in the Oregonian, The ...
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28 States To Get Smartlet Electric Vehicle Charging Station Distributors, Entire US + Canada Early ...
image: Coulomb Technologies A bit over a week ago Coulomb Technologies announced that it would be installing 40 of its electric vehicle charging stations across California. Now the company will be expanding access to these chargers through regional reseller programs in 28 states, in the Northeast ...
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Jargon Watch: Econcierge
That is what Trendwatching, "an independent and opinionated trend firm" with a penchant for inventing words that really grate on the tongue, calls the new services that help households go green. They note that while these firms started up to help people reduce their carbon footprints, their current ...
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Crushing Seed to Fry the Turkey - DIY Thanksgiving Extreme
How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey? From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a more intimate relationship with our food and ...
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Bill Clinton Kicks Off First (and Last) Charity Summit Overseas
Clinton with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Victor Fung, chairman of Hong Kong's Li & Fung Group. Reuters Bill Clinton opened the first Clinton Global Initiative Asia summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, amid questions over how the global economic slump and his wife's new role as U. ...
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Cohousing Comes to Brooklyn
In good times, idealists trying to start something like a cohousing project have trouble competing with developers for land; they have to put up their own money, don't have access to the same kind of mezzanine financing, and can't move as quickly. In times like these, suddenly they hold all the card ...
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Think Eco-Logical Pushes IT Sustainability Home with Businesses
Think Eco-Logical is a new program launched today by BPM Forum and Rackable Systems to educate businesses that sustainable IT practices are what will get them through the recession, and is the only way forward in the climate crisis. The initiative addresses business issues like digital media, en ...
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Malcolm Gladwell on Home Ownership and Community
photography by kris krüg à propos of our post on Is Home Ownership a Good Thing? Part II, the introduction of Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers describes a study of Roseto, a small town in Pennsylvania, where for some unknown reason people just didn't die of the usual causes in America at the ...
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Recycled Cardboard Accessories by Diseno Cartonero
The first edition of Sustentable, a design festival entirely dedicated to sustainability and green design, is proving that Buenos Aires is ready to embrace the environmental movement. The event gathered a good amount and quality of designers, which offer a panorama of the state of green design in th ...
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Vanguard Homes Builds First WaterSense® Labeled Dwelling In USA: 20% More Water Efficient
The US Environmental Protection Agency has an aqueous analog to the well established ENERGY STAR® program. The 2-year old WaterSense® is a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is the symbol for water-efficient products, services and practices. Vanguard ...
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Spread the Warmth with Horny Toads Pre-Loved Clothing Donation Program
The Bivouac projectI think thats what it was calledwas a scheme, from aeons ago, whereby a bunch of mountaineers organised for their fellow adventurers to donate old outerwear jackets and sleeping bags, those gathering dust in garages, basements and attic. They then dispersed these goods to homel ...
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Make My Car into a Prius: Retrofit a Poulsen Hybrid Plug-inKit
Cant get by with public transit systems or a bicycle? Need a car, but would rather have something more economical and ecological like the Toyota Prius? If only you could avoid it! Someone has been eavesdropping on your thoughts and that person is Ulrik Poulsen, a Danish mechanical engineer. Ulrik ...
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Get Thee to an Eco Nunnery
Enough is enough according to the nuns at an ageing Victorian convent. They are tired of being caretakers for an old country mansion that is eating money in fuel bills and upkeep. Now they have commissioned a new home in the remote countryside that will be environmentally friendly. It will have r ...
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To Tour or Not to TourShould An Environmentalist Visit the Galapagos?
Photo by Pete Oxford From a die-hard ecologist's standpoint, the unequivocal answer is simple: No. Tourism invites hordes of people to trample over the delicate island ecosystems, the ever-growing industry attracts migrant workers to join an already unsustainable population which combined ...
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Eco-Drain Cleaner, Homemade Tortilla Chips and The Anti-Gift List
:: Unclog your drains the eco-friendly way. The world's waterways will thank you. :: Cut out the calories and wasteful packaging from store bought snacks by making your own. How about tasty Tortilla Chips? :: Check out the anti-gift list for a good laugh--or fright!...
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Healthy Child Healthy World Hosts Carnival of the Green
This week is Carnival of the Green #156 and it's being hosted by Healthy Child Healthy World, a blog that gives us simple steps in creating a safe, clean and green home for our family. So head on over to this week's Carnival to find a round up of green news and events from the past week, submit ...
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Beijing Meets Its "Blue Sky" Target for 2008 (After Moving the Goal Posts)
Andrew Lih China has a big counterfeiting problem, but it's not DVDs or clothing or cars. It's pollution statistics. We've mentioned it before, and wrote about it recently at The Vine, but as the UN worries about giant smog clouds over Asia and Beijing considers
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Beijing Meets Its "Blue Sky" Target for 2008 -- After Moving the Goal Posts
Andrew Lih China has a big counterfeiting problem, but it's not DVDs or clothing or cars. It's pollution statistics. We've mentioned it before, and wrote about it recently at The Vine, but as the UN worries about giant smog clouds over Asia and Beijing considers
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Sustainabilitys Success
The financial meltdown has proven how badly things need to change. In July the world was focused on faltering trade negotiations, managing high energy and food costs, climate change and ecosystem degradation. Today, the recent financial collapse has led to a large-scale evaporation of trust in marke ...
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