Archive for September, 2011

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 230

There are nearly 7,000 known languages in the world today. It is predicted that half of these, in many cases vessels of indigenous cultures, will vanish over the next 50 years.
Google has set up a $75 million fund that will pay for about 3,000 residential solar installations in California, Colorado and Arizona. The fund [...]

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LifeStraw Personal Water Filter Giveaway

It’s giveaway time again here on The Good Human! The great people over at Eartheasy.com have one again offered to sponsor a giveaway for you all and this time it is for the newest product in their catalog, the LifeStraw. The LifeStraw is a personal water filter which enables users to safely drink water from [...]

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23 Ways To Use Vinegar For Nontoxic Cleaning

There are plenty of toxic products on the market you can buy in order to “clean” your house. But what you may not know is that distilled white vinegar does the job of most of them without any toxicity — and for much cheaper! Using only inexpensive vinegar, water, and a castile soap like Dr. [...]

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Plan B: A Roadmap For Stabilizing The Climate

Some friends of mine were talking about a book called “Plan B” that proposes a plan for rescuing the environment and ending poverty around the world. Is it a realistic plan or just some utopian pipe dream?
What started as a book has grown into a movement known as “Plan B” which presents a roadmap for [...]

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 229

Is “Green Living” getting in the way of the “Green Movement”?
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 45 % between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons in 2010.
Renewable energy deserves subsidies, its partisans say, because conventional energy sources have enjoyed bigger subsidies for decades. The latter is a [...]

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Reuseit.com 60% Off Reusable Bottles, Bags Sale

Just wanted to let you guys know about reuseit.com’s Fall Clearance Sale that is going on until October 10th, 2011. A whole bunch of products are on sale up to 60% off, including water bottles, reusable shopping bags, waste-free lunch kits, rechargeable candles, and Farmer’s Market essentials. I have bought all sorts of stuff from [...]

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Solar-Powered Trash Compactor

Last week when I was in Sedona, Arizona I came across a rather fancy looking trash can out behind the coffee shop I had just purchased a cup of java from. I spent a few minutes looking at it as I had never seen such a nice trash can, and then I realized what was [...]