Author: The GU team
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Less paper waste from shirts, please
I bought this shirt the other day, and I just decided to put it in the laundry today when I noticed all the tags hanging from it. HerBench just printed the size and some details on the shirt itself, but there’s still a sticker there bearing the size number as well. The other tags contain…
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Green franchise alert!
Spotted over at Grist: Oregon-based company Clean Air Lawn Care is open for franchising! Introducing Clean Air Lawn Care, an environmentally-friendly, national lawn care company based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Think of us as a lawn care company for the affluent, busy and environmentally conscious. We’re changing the world one lawn at a time, and…
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Breathe the free air
If you use air fresheners, read the results of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) investigation that found hormone-altering chemicals in air fresheners. How about making your own?
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Day-for-Night dress: fug or fashionable?
What is it with people and the urge to give clothes the power to, well, power things? There was last year’s solar-powered swimsuit, and now there’s the Day-for-Night dress, which basically looks like a little white dress made up of tiles. More accurately, it’s made up of 448 circuit boards. Each tile is designed in…
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Water-bike to work!
Of all the office-bound transportation options I’ve heard–from carpooling to commuting to biking–I gotta say that I love this option the best: riding a water bike to work. Nat Hong and Bob Barrett commute on Puget Sound by bike — water bike, that is — to their jobs in Bremerton and Steilacoom. “This is pretty…
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Localvores
We’ve all heard of the Atkins or the South Beach diets. What about the 100 mile diet? According to their webpage, the average North American produce have travelled at least 1500 miles. So in 2005, Allison Smith and James McKinnon decided that for a year, they would only buy their food and drink from within…
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Pop the question!
Environment America asks you to sign a petition to Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Schieffer and Chris Wallace so they’ll start querying the presidentiables about global warming and our energy future. Sign here!
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Secondary packaging needs a second look
Since I became interested and aware about environmental issues, product packaging is one of the things I’ve started to eye more carefully. I’m pretty pleased with Sony Ericsson, because the amount of packing materials has been reduced and even the box size is considerably smaller. Seagate Freeagent Go, on the other hand, makes decent use…
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PDF rocks
I’ve been trying to get a small proofreading business off the ground lately, and I obtained my first customer yesterday! Once upon a time during my earlier proofreading jobs, I had to drive to the company’s office, get my printed copy of the document, and do the work right there. But happily, there’s a much…
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Greenwashing
Greenwashing is the act of misleading consumers regarding a company’s environmental practices or a product’s benefits to the environment. Here are the results of Terra Choice‘s study of environmental claims in North America. They identified 6 sins of greenwashing: Hidden trade-off: advertising a product as green based on a single attribute e.g. using recycled paper…