Archive for October, 2009

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 141.

One more week till the move! I hope the weather can give me a few decent days to get out of NM and to my new place in CO. Just need 2 days, Mother Nature!
Planet Connect is handing out $1,000 grants to high school students with creative ideas and actions to fix an environmental [...]

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New Belgium Brewery: Wind Powered & Employee Owned.

Now this is a true example of what a sustainable business should (and can) be. The New Belgium Brewing company in Fort Collins, CO is powered by wind energy and is employee-owned, meaning the employees have a say in the decisions that the company makes. The company has even had a hand in building wind [...]

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No New Treaty Expected At COP15, But…

As reported over at Treehugger.com, UN climate negotiator Yvo de Boe has gone on record as saying that he doesn’t expect any new treaty to be agreed upon at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. Great. Another giant conference, which everyone in attendance will be spewing carbon emissions into the air to get [...]

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Do One Thing: Keep Water In The Fridge To Avoid Running The Tap.

Drink a lot of water at home? (I hope it’s tap and not bottled!) Instead of turning the faucet on and running it until you get cold water, why not keep a pitcher in the fridge at all times so you always have an ice-cold beverage? This will reduce the amount of wasted water that [...]

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Greenwash Of The Week: Southwest Airlines “Green” Plane.

Some of you may have already seen this story through my social media channels, after I sent it over to my friend Keith at The Unsuitablog, a big-time lover of all things greenwash. But for those who missed it, I wanted to mention it here as well as this week’s Greenwash of the Week. Seems [...]

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Heat Your Home For Free With These Solar Heaters.

My landlord just installed 2 of these solar heaters – 10 days before I move out, which stinks. But for the next 10 days, I plan on running these heaters all day long to heat up the house for absolutely no cost to me. In an effort to try to explain what my landlord did, [...]

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“Energy Citizen” Ads Are From The American Petroleum Institute.

Think those Energy Citizen ads are really being aired in your best interest of saving a few bucks on energy costs? Think again – they are by the American Petroleum Institute, who is deathly afraid that a climate bill might impact billions of dollars of their profits. They are not interested in your energy costs [...]