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Practical environmentalists can declare their love for the Earth and for fashion following the U.S. release of British designer Anya Hindmarch’s “I’m not a plastic bag” bag.
This anti-excess statement is available online for $15 at www.anyahindmarch.co.uk, or at select Whole Foods stores on the East Coast.
A Today Show blogger reports that she talked with a [...]
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Photo from Flickr.
Officials have declared that the bald eagle, previously dwindling in numbers, has expanded its population such that it no longer needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act. They have become particularly at home in Florida.
From the New York Times 6/29/07:
Bald eagles, aloof centurions of the wild, seem to have discovered their inner [...]
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Today’s Dallas Morning News writes about the Dallas mega-church, Prestonwood Baptist, and the work it has done to decrease energy consumption. With 700 people on staff, 26,000 church members and around 1 million square feet of space, they were getting some serious utility bills of around $240,000 a month!
But they hired an energy audit firm [...]
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For this installment of our series on People Making a Difference, we are very pleased to present an interview with Andy Kruse, the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Southwest Windpower. Southwest Windpower is the World’s leading manufacturer of personal size wind energy systems. Southwest Windpower makes the Skystream 3.7, which is a small [...]
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Check out Popular Mechanics magazine’s special report on the new energy bill. They’re focusing on the following issues:
“4 Ways Detroit Can Hit New MPG Laws” and “7 Steps Senators Missed on Our Clean Coal.”
Here’s the basics of what happened with the bill to catch you up:
After contentious debate on Capitol Hill and lobbying from [...]
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Eben Bayer, the son of a Vermont Farmer and a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been working to create an organic and eco-friendly insulation for your home out of mushrooms! With the help of Gavin McIntyre, Bayer has patented a unique green building material known as “Greensulate.” The ingredients for this organic [...]
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Lou Manfredini from House Smarts TV recently talked on the Today Show about environmentally friendly lawn equipment. Among the products mentioned are reel mowers, compost bins (like the Tumbleweed Composter shown above) and manual cultivators. Lou says,
Compost is a natural way to fertilize your vegetable or flower garden. You can send less [...]
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I’ve heard that mint is a natural repellent for ants, so I tried out Dr. Bronner’s Organic Peppermint & Mentha Arvensis Castille Soap to treat a serious ant problem we’re having.
Seems the little buggers like our kitchen scraps we have set out to take to the compost pile. We tried it [...]
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It’s summer and organic gardening and farming is going on all over the world.
If you’re interested in an intensive, hands-on organic gardening learning experience, check out World-Wide Opportunities for Organic Farming (WWOOF) at http://www.wwoof.org. You can live on an organic farm anywhere in the world, and learn organic techniques firsthand. A great [...]
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Planeta.com is hosting a gallery on Flickr.com devoted to water conservation and recreation. These compelling images (although there are only a few right now), have the potential to help us view water in an entirely different way, and in cultural contexts we are unfamiliar with.
If you have some unique images of water [...]
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