January 31, 2008 – 5:12 am
The digital textbooks site iChapters.com has announced a new green campaign. For one month, buyers of eBooks and eChapters will have a tree planted in their name. See below for full program details:
iChapters.com Helps Environmental Activism Take Root
Online College Textbook Store Pledges to “Plant a Tree” for Each eChapter or eBook Purchased Through Partnerships [...]
January 30, 2008 – 3:08 am
Ponderosa pines in Caton Lake Roadless on
Payette NF, nine years after prescribed fire –
Photo courtesy of John McCarthy/ TWS
Last week, conservationists gathered in our nation’s capital to toast 10 years of Roadless Forests. They were marking the anniversary of a key piece of legislation that has helped to safeguard our public woodlands. Unfortunately, the Bush [...]
December 15, 2007 – 2:29 am
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Well, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced the launch of their new Education Provider Program (EPP). The goal is to ultimately create an extensive “course catalog” of top-tier green building educational programs, peer-reviewed and approved by the USGBC, making it easy for those in the field looking to upgrade their skills to find [...]
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What graphic symbolizes “green” to you? The green arrows of the recycling sign? Or some other green certification, like the organic symbol? Yahoo! is looking for a new green icon to help signify and flag greener things you can do all over their network of sites — “everything from making green purchases to finding the [...]
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The first Tesla store will open in… Menlo Park, in the Bay Area. It will be in a property owned by Stanford University, which used to house a Chevrolet dealer. Not only is the world getting a green car dealership, but it’s losing a non-green one. The original idea was to launch a dealership [...]
Friends of The Earth
July 11, 2007
WASHINGTON–Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder responded to the introduction of cap and trade legislation by Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) with the following statement:
“At a time when global warming is accelerating toward a [...]
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Size matters; bigger houses consume more resources to build and to operate. Thats why we love showing designs of small spaces and reviewing books like Small Living. It is another anonymous European production (you have to dig to find that the “idea and concept” came from a Paco Asensio and “editor and original texts” are [...]
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The computer industry is constantly producing smaller and cheaper machines. On the face of it that seems great, but is it really? What are the benefits or smaller/cheaper PCs? Furthermore, are they eco?
Let’s see what we got; for starters, cheaper computers will invariably mean more computers, maybe a billion more by 2015; some think [...]
From CNN:
Materials company Pvaxx Research & Development, at the request of U.S.-based mobile phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), has come up with a polymer that looks like any other plastic, but which degrades into soil when discarded.
Researchers at the University of Warwick in Britain then helped to develop a phone cover that contains a [...]
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