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Oil Prices: Is OPEC Looking for $100 Crude?
Green Ink: Shallow Gas, Electric Cars, and the Future of Yucca Mountain
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Green Ink: Oil Slumps and T. Boone Punts
The Virtual Office: Can Your Business Go Any Greener?
Happy Easter 2012
Sacramento Airport Gets LEED-Silver, SMUD Installs 600,000 Smart Meters
GMO Labeling Gets on California Ballot as Agent Orange Corn Nears Approval
Wind: Mexico's Renewable Energy of Choice
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A Green Life is a Good Life
Does WordPress have a BUB?
Off the Grid Book is Off the Mark
Climate Change Creating Vicious Cycle in Western Forests
3 things businesses need to know about extreme weather
Occupy Wall Street Calls National General Strike for International Workers' Day
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Free Brooklyn Food Conference Returns on May 12, 2012
Eco-Friendly Flooring: Top 3 Green Options for Your Business Space
The 7 lessons learned from 24 million EV miles
ZeroWater Review & Giveaway {2 Winners}
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Green Mortgages: Save Money and The Environment
A woman's place is everywhere in the green economy
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Crowdfunding Platform: Victory Garden Revival- Commercial Vegetables Lack Nutrition
Can Heat Pumps Lower Your Energy Bills at Home or Work?
US DOE: Calling Developers to Create Apps For Energy and Win Big!
Big Banks Finance Renewables, But Still Also Coal
IEA Urges Governments to Speed Up Green Technology Deployment
Mexico's First 50 MW Solar Power Plant in the Works
University of California, Riverside Gets Clean Energy Face Lift
Crowdfunding Platform: Opensource Permaculture, Goal $15,000
Sowing seeds, reaping energy with Harvest Power
Another Try for Renewable Energy PTC Legislation, Report Shows How It's Spurred Growth in Nevada
29 firms fail to file promised sustainability reports
Renewable Energy News Bites Around the World
Shaping supply chain sustainability with the Internet of things
Greening the Food Deserts of East Los Angeles
Why full Scope 3 reporting may not be right for every company
Lessons from Starbucks: Building a sustainable supply chain
Obamacare in Cartoons: New Graphic Novel Explains Health Care Reform
Eco-Options: Shaklee
Idaho Passes Mandatory Ultrasounds & Colorado Wants Embryonic Personhood
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Importance of Mid-Sized Businesses In Our Economy
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Five Organizations Bringing Clean Cooking Technologies to the Developing World Cooking’s a killer activity in the developing world: millions die from smoke inhalation, and forests are stripped bare as billions gather wood for their stoves (or for making charcoal for cooking). Take a look at five organizations working to address these multiple challenges...
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Cleanweb Hackathon Comes to Boulder, CO May18-20 After hitting San Francisco, New York City and Boston the exciting Cleanweb Hackthon stops in Boulder CO. The Cleanweb Hackathon is an upcoming gathering to demonstrate the impact of applying information technology to resource constraints. Are you a developer looking to make a difference through tech Head on over!..
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Vacation with A Purpose: Volunteer Abroad with Smaller Earth What if you can travel in your gap year, get intimate with a new country and culture while doing social good and honing your skills Yup, you can have it all. Volunteering abroad with Smaller Earth is a great way to spend your vacation dollars, get off the beaten path and explore real communities around the world. ..
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Hawaii Becomes First State in U.S. to Ban Plastic Bags Following the City Council’s 7-1 vote in favor, Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle signed SB2511, a bill banning plastic bags in retail stores yesterday across Honolulu County, which comprises the island of Oahu and Hawaii’s capitol city of Honolulu. What makes the bill’s passage extra significant is that Hawaii’s other counties had previously banned plastic bags, meaning that Hawaii has just officially enacted the first full statewide ban on plastic ..
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Books: Good for the Mind/Bad for the Environment? How Reusing Books Creates Value in Your Community With over a million new books published in the U.S. each year1 one might think that getting your hands on a good book wouldn’t be too hard, despite the growing popularity of e-readers. But the truth, as they say, can sometimes be stranger than fiction. Organizations focused on building literacy in underserved areas, such as schools, libraries and non-profits can benefit greatly from books – even gently- used ones – but may have trouble obtainin..
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Intel to Raise Effiicency of Notebooks, Data Centers The company says it will raise efficiency 25 times by 2020. ..
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Vermont Bans Fracking In the coming generation or two, drinking water will be more valuable than oil or natural gas. ..
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Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Runs on 100% Renewables It doubled the solar array at its North Carolina data center to 40 MW, the largest private array. ..
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Commerce Puts Hefty Tariffs on Chinese Solar Imports What's the fallout Is this a good decision ..
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FedEx Makes Fast Progress Toward Fuel-Sipping Fleet Through a variety of measure including electric trucks, FedEx is close to the target it set for 2020. ..
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BusinessClimate: Bringing corporate sustainability to the mainstream The founder and principal of the upcoming BusinessClimate sustainability event discusses how sustainability is moving from the realm of CSR to competitiveness to national security, but how more evolution is needed to make it mainstream.  ..
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Brewing a greener cuppa joe at Starbucks and Thanksgiving Coffee Despite the many differences between the Fortune 500 coffee retailer and the family-owned artisan roaster based in Mendocino, Calif., the two companies are committed to working with growers to source coffee beans as sustainably and ethically as possible. ..
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Growing Green Awards: The people behind the produce The food producers honored by NRDC's Growing Green Awards are pioneers in the ways they produce food that nourishes our families and restores our water, air, and soil at the same time. ..
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Materials' scarcity and rising costs are fuel for a VERGE future New technologies and emerging business pressures are combining to create an unprecedented era of change, according to speakers at today's VERGE conference. ..
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How your firm can adjust as energy gets more & less carbon-intensive For companies thinking about climate change and energy, what are the implications of two countervailing trends, the rise of energy with lower carbon content, and the concurrent rise of high-carbon energy ..
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Chomsky’s “Plutonomy & the Precariat” Explains Why Jobs aren’t Coming Back Earlier this month Noam Chomsky published an incisive essay entitled: "Plutonomy & the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline*, which elucidates how the extreme concentration of wealth with the 1% has transpired because our country no longer manufactures actual things — bankers, stock brokers and financiers simply manipulate the idea of money. The United States has mutated into a vastly economically stratified oligarchy, 99..
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Chandigarh Wards Off Water Woes 96.7% of households in India have access to tap water, and recent census data places Chandigarh at the top spot. The city is also ranked second in India in terms of per capita water supply of 330 liters per person per day, although Chandigarh is no exception to the ongoing global threat of water scarcity. While the municipality needs 116 Million Gallons daily (MGd), it only has access to 87 MGd. Chandigarh takes this issue quite seriously, and is..
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Judge Rules Obama’s Indefinite Detention Violates Our Constitutional Rights An Obama-appointed federal judge, Katherine Forrest, has just ruled that the administration's indefinite detention provisions are indeed unconstitutional, and violate our Fifth Amendment right to due process. The NDAA statute was found to be so incredibly vague that it is nearly impossible to know what specific behavior could potentially subject one to indefinite secret military detention...
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Repair Cafes Build Community & Promote Locally Based Sustainability At Amsterdam’s busy Repair Café crowds of different people come to the community center with various items that are not working properly — the broken objects will be repaired for free by volunteers who love to fix things, as well as teach others how to make simple repairs. The social environment the cafe creates not only enables individuals to divert waste, share their knowledge, develop skills and save resources, but also helps to strengthen loc..
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Explore Important Media’s Weekly Link Party Each week the Important Media blog collective features a list of featured articles from across our diverse network, including interesting posts from Eat Drink Better, Green Building Elements, Crafting a Green World, CleanTechnica and Planetsave. Please take a moment to read some of this week’s highlighted articles, and you might learn something new...
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Going Green to Save Green: 3 Money-Saving Office Solutions The new eco-centric business model isn’t a fad to be canceled out by the next trend.  While the environmental implications of the green business are obvious, the fact that going green can actually save your small business serious money may not be as well known.  By turning your business green you may not only save [...]Post from: Eco-Office GalsGoing Green to Save Green: 3 Money-Saving Office Solutions ..
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How to get your Employee’s to be Eco-Friendly You have decided to make a big work decision and go green. That means you have taken the time to turn your office into an office that tries it’s hardest not to harm the earth. You know it’s a great decision but you may have a hard time convincing your employees otherwise. You may run [...]Post from: Eco-Office GalsHow to get your Employee’s to be Eco-Friendly ..
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Does WordPress have a BUB? Years ago a computer teacher told the class “You will not find a BUB on your keyboard!” Huh Blow Up Button – Ohhhhh! I’m not saying wordpress has a blow up button but if you don’t take simple measures – it might as well! WP hacks & crashes have become a concern the past week [...]Post from: Eco-Office GalsDoes WordPress have a BUB ..
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A Green Life is a Good Life Do you strive for a green lifestyle It can sometimes be a struggle to keep with the latest green trends as you live your busy life. However, you might be surprised to learn how changing small facets of your everyday life can add up to big changes for preserving the planet. Making Your House a [...]Post from: Eco-Office GalsA Green Life is a Good Life ..
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ZeroWater Review & Giveaway {2 Winners} I recently had the opportunity to try out the Zerowater system. Zerowater is a water filtration pitcher, with a twist. It comes with a tester for your water – called s TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) tester. The TDS meter helps put a number on what your taste buds already tell you about what’s in water. [...]Post from: Eco-Office GalsZeroWater Review & Giveaway {2 Winners} ..
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Who's Afraid of a Clean-Energy Future? A cleaner energy system, despite all its teething pains, doesn't have to be at odds with common sense and a healthy economy. Quite the contrary...
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Wind Jammers: More 'Buy' Recommendations for Denmark's Vestas Vestas, the big turbine maker, is a global leader. So why do investors keep punishing it..
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Boiling Point: High Hopes for Geothermal Energy Looking for a cheap, reliable source of clean energy Geothermal energy is racing up the backstretch...
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Green Ink: Magical Climate Thinking, Offshore Wind, and Chinese Coal The daily roundup of energy and climate news...
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