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Richard Branson, the Virgin Atlantic Airlines president who recently made news by naming an airplane after Stephen Colbert…then throwing water at him, recently made news by not only running a Boeing 747 off of Bio Fuel but actually drinking some of the fuel to prove its lack of toxicity. According to this article in [...]
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Flickr photo courtesy of Robbi Baba.
In just a few years, biodiesel in the U.S. has gone from an incognito fringe fuel to a mainstream media darling, and has recently [...]
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This video clip is from a DVD called The Power of the Sun.
If you’ve ever watched any Monty Python, you’ll immediately recognize the narrator’s voice as that of John Cleese.
Spotted on ZDnet.com.
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Photo courtesy of Guided by the light at Flickr.com.
Robert Frost famously wrote about how “Good fences make good neighbors,” but the type of fence that pioneers built in the American West can be a drain on the environment. Picket fences block animal migration routes and are often painted with toxic chemicals. Building a wooden [...]
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Photo courtesy of k9ine at Flickr.com.
A week after contacting the three companies that are offering Green Credit Cards, only one of the companies has replied to my questions:
Emily, at Brighter Planet, wrote:
Hi George - The market rate for our offsets are $12 a ton, and we measure in short tons (2000 lbs.) And as far [...]
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For some, going completely organic with all of your food purchases is overwhelming and often expensive. So consider starting out small, buying a few organic products and building from there. Did you know that a lot of people make the leap to organic products with milk?
Organic milk is a familiar sight in most dairy sections [...]
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No that’s not a misspelling; the Sacramento based nano-tech solar manufacturer really does spell it that way. After reading about their innovative new solar brush I don’t know why and I don’t care; it’s just cool. The company was originally known as Q1 NanoSystems.
“The name change to Bloo Solar reflects the company’s [...]
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Here’s a tip I got about some of the Valentine’s Day related posts on the Yahoo! Green blog.
It looked like the perfect opportunity to be incredibly lazy and create a Valentine’s Day post without actually having to do anything. Here it is:
Yahoo! Green has a big collection of advice on how to make this special [...]
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I saw this guest blog post by Robert F Kennedy on the official Google blog today about mountaintop coal mining and how it devastates the environment.
I agree with his assessment of mountaintop removal coal mining.
But I can’t help but wonder where Mr. Kennedy expects our electricity to come from, when he is also one of [...]
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Cows produce methane; and before you start thinking the obvious cud chewing animals produce methane breaking down the cellulose in plants and…well…burp it out. Methane is 2nd on the list of harmful greenhouse gasses and aside from being burped out by cattle it is produced by rice paddies, wetlands, and a host of [...]
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