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Filed under: LocalKeep America Beautiful, the US Conference of Mayors and Novelis, a leading producer of aluminum beverage cans are teaming up to sponsor the 5th annual Cans for Cash recycling contest. The contest, held in October, rewards cities with cash grants for their recycling efforts. Partici... (original story)
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Filed under: FashionEven Coca Cola is jumping on the green fashion bandwagon. The soft drink giant just launched a new line of "sustainable fashion," t-shirts -- they are made from cotton and polyethylene terephthalate.The company used the bottles thrown away at the games to create the t-shirts. Eac... (original story)
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photo: ADM via flickr In the spirit of an ongoing series of new discoveries which could be titled “whoops, things are a lot worse than we thought" Yahoo News/AFP is reporting that according to new research coming out to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and published in Nature Geoscience, the ... (original story)
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Filed under: CelebritiesKate Hudson's line of hair products, David Babaii for Wildaid, may be squeaky clean and eco-green, but the idea behind it all was not organic. She's being sued for misappropriation of trade secrets and fraud amongst other things after a company claims she stole their ingredie... (original story)
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Filed under: Gadgets and Tech, Home, Alternative Energy What does it really mean to be "green"? When it comes to building or remodeling your home, going green has a different meaning to different people. In a recent article over at Off-Grid.net, they take a look at the meaning of green building and ... (original story)
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Filed under: Gadgets and Tech, Alternative EnergyIt seems every day we're reading about the price of solar technology dropping dramatically. With scientists and researchers developing new ways to cool, store and distribute the power generated from solar cells, it's a promising future for the solar p... (original story)
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Maternity garb might be considered the ultimate in disposable clothing. After all, they're not meant to last more than a few months. Women who want to keep their pregnancy carbon footprints petite have a few options: Scrounge for hand-me-downs from their girlfriends, shop at consignment stores, or... (original story)
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Filed under: Alternative EnergyEvery area of the Midwest has some type of manufacturing going on. Or, it did at some point in the past. Many of those automotive plants and big warehouses have closed up shop, leaving workers unemployed and buildings empty. I've seen the abandoned steel mills in Penns... (original story)
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Filed under: Green Blog TourSchoolchildren still at risk of toxic waste dumps CNN profiles Lois Gibbs, who headed the Love Canal Homeowners Association and now runs the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, an organization dedicated to helping communities face environmental threats. In a recent ... (original story)
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Filed under: NewsTalk about resourcefulness! An Australian PhD student has developed a way to make solar cells cheaply -- and I'm talking really cheaply. She used nail polish, a pizza oven and an ink jet printer, and VOILA, solar cells were born.Nicole Kuepper's invention, iJET could pave the way fo... (original story)
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>> A new eco vocab game Treewala just launched. It’s basically exactly like the previously-launched One Square Foot game — save the rainforest by playing a web game while ads scroll at the bottom of the page — except Treewala makes you define words — which’re often eco ... (original story)
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As reported earlier, Kate Hudson and her business partner David Babaii are being sued by 220 Labs over their new eco-friendly shampoo “David Babaii for WildAid“. The company claims that Hudson was sent a sample from their own mix and that she then took it and went wild with her own formu... (original story)
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By Miles GrantWhen the media talks about clean energy, it usually deals with the cost issue with a rational, balanced analysis. Something along the lines of, say, "It's so expensive!" Yet somehow, in Keith Johnson's Environmental Capital blog post today slamming greens for not supporting nukes, th... (original story)
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By Kate SheppardBill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, is here at the Democratic convention talking about what the next administration will need to do on climate and energy. Becker is also the Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy at the U... (original story)
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By Joseph RommFresh from its Olympic-record in denier debunking, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new update: Sea ice extent is declining at a fairly brisk and steady pace. Surface melt has mostly ended, but the decline will continue for two to three more weeks because of mel... (original story)