Category: Green news
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Green Broadway
The Broadway Green Alliance (formerly Broadway goes Green) is acting to help Mother Earth. According to this article, the theatre industry have taken the following steps: Playbill Magazine is working with NRDC to enhance their environmental practices, which are already extensive, and will be supporting the initiative by periodically reporting on the “Broadway Goes Green”…
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Putting up a green parking lot
Parking lots weren’t exactly a symbol of eco-friendly living, since they signaled the tearing down of large green spaces to make room for smoke-belching vehicles. Today however, they’re getting quite an interesting makeover. “Green” is the new black in planning, design and construction philosophy, and it’s no different for the parking industry. Parking designers are…
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Blog Action Day 09: Climate Change
Today’s Blog Action Day 2009! Thank goodness for efforts like Blog Action Day to keep spreading the word about important issues like climate change! Now, what can we say about climate change? For starters, it is obvious to us that climate change is happening as we speak. We can choose to do nothing, or we…
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No Impact Project
Colin Beavan and his family went a whole year living the “No Impact” way. He wrote a book about it and there’s even a movie coming out. If you want to try a “carbon cleanse” for a week, click here to join. The experiment starts 18 October.
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Mitsubishi joins MRM’s recycling effort
Green electronics are gaining quite a following and people are growing more interested in how electronics companies are making sure that they are taking an active role in the protection of the environment. One of the things that people are concerned about is recycling their old electronics; indeed, where should you take your old, unfixable…
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Another green phone: Samsung Blue Earth
More and more cellphone manufacturers these days are coming out with eco-friendly phones; I just wish I can see some of them over here! It would be great to actually hold one, try it out, and see if its looks, features, and capabilities are up to snuff, and that its eco-friendliness isn’t its only virtue,…
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Copenhagen 2009
From Environment New York: On Dec. 7, President Obama is going to Copenhagen to try to get world leaders to agree on an international plan to reduce global warming pollution. To convince the world to join us in tackling global warming, we need to lead by example and make sure the United States is putting…
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Soup for the Soul
Support Campbell’s Help Grow Your Soup campaign. They’ve teamed up with the National FFA (Future Farmers of America) to restore five barns. You can choose from 10 barns and vote for your favorite here. For every vote cast, Campbell’s is donating $1 (up to $250,000) to the FFA from 01 October 2009 to 05 January…
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Put a Lid on it
Help Stonyfield Farm direct $100,000 to 3 organizations dedicated to helping Mother Earth. Go to Stonyfield Rewards to support any of these worthy causes: The Organic Center Energy Action Coalition Center for Biological Diversity You can cast votes as many times as you want. You can also earn rewards by collecting and entering reward codes…
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A Small Dream
This was 16 years ago, @ the UN Conference on Environment and Development. I wish we could say the adults heeded her call.