Category: Green news
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Jessica Alba launches Honest.com
Actress Jessica Alba has a new role: founder of The Honest Company, which came about out a desire to find safe, healthful, eco-friendly baby products for her kids. The Honest Company also makes sure to give back to organizations concerned with health and social issues and for this year, they are teaming up with Baby2Baby,…
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The good green days of yore
This particular blog post has been shared by a few people on my Facebook news feed. Simply put, it’s someone hitting back at the cashier who told him or her that the older generation didn’t do enough for the environment when they were younger, and the person who wrote this rattled off all the ways…
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Livia Firth teams up with Yooxygen
Colin and Livia Firth have long been known to be advocates for the environment, and Livia, who is known for wearing some amazing upcycled outfits on the red carpet, is taking yet another green step by working on a clothing line with Yooxygen. The brand is known for collaborating with designers and other brands, and…
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Hilary Duff goes for a green nursery
Actress Hilary Duff, who I still can’t believe is pregnant, is getting the baby’s room ready, and it’s going to be an eco-friendly room. Well, it won’t be extremely green, but it’s going to be safer than most. At an interview during a cancer charity gala she attended, Hilary said the nursery was going to…
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Matt Damon launches eco-friendly water bottle
Water’s a major issue for Matt Damon, which was why he created the non-profit company Water.org two years ago. Water.org teamed up with CamelBak recently to launch a limited-edition BPA-free water bottle, which comes in stainless steel and plastic. Ten dollars from the sale of every bottle will go towards supporting Water.org’s efforts to bring…
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Win a gift basket from The Kind Life
Actress Alicia Silverstone has been a long-time vegan and green living advocate, and she’s been pretty active in spreading the word about making positive choices for your health and for the planet. Her website, The Kind Life, is an online extension of her book, The Kind Diet, and has been a good resource for people…
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Play the Green Economy Board Game
Games, whether they be computer or board games, that present an alternative way to live and work are always interesting. We all know how other games are based on using up resources to support an undertaking. I’m put in mind of Starcraft where you pump a source of vespene gas which eventually runs out and…
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Don’t you worry about the atmosphere
Radiohead discusses climate change with Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
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Got Smog?
President Obama continues his efforts to cave to the Republicans and disappoint his supporters. The White House has overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules on smog. Brad Plumer states in his blogpost that: ” Right now, most states are still operating under the old 1997 standards. The EPA had earlier directed states not to…
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PERC
In line with Dr. Oz‘s Toxic 10 challenge, New York and New Jersey residents can bring dry cleaning bags to the parking lot of the Chart House Restaurant in Weehawken, NJ tomorrow, 19 August between 11 AM and 1 PM. (The restaurant is located at 1500 Harbor Boulevard.) Dry cleaning bags may contain toxins like…