Great post on Behind The Greens: Good Causes Gone Bad.
Apparently, Doubletree Hotels and the Arbor Day Foundation are working with Teaching Kids to CARE on an awareness project.
The goal is to help students learn more about nature and the outdoors through a tree tagging campaign titled Get To Know The Tree Next Door.
In an [...]
If you haven’t seen it yet, check your listings for a repeat: HGTV has been running a very interesting show called 20 Ways Your Home Can Save The Planet.
Curious about the 20 ways? I’m sure you’ve seen most of these ideas before:
1. Plug into the hottest appliances: look for energy-efficiency models
2. Keep your cabinets and [...]
SFGate.com has an interesting rundown on energy-saving HDTVs, based on CNET reviews.
The models surveyed:
1. Olevia 252T FHD
2. Philips 42PFL7432D
3. Samsung HL-T5687S
4. Sharp LC-32D44U
The winner is the Samsung, which received a 7.6 out of 10. The Philips (6.9 out of 10) and Olevia (6.9 out of 10) pretty much tied out at #2.
What fascinates me is [...]
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simple+green Friday roundup. And what a week it’s been!
Earth Day!
Lots happened on a national level, not the least of which was Oprah’s big Earth Day show. More info on eco-Oprah here.
The San Jose Mercury urges us to celebrate it all year long.
Google, Yahoo, AOL and more got into the Earth Day spirit on [...]
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Kudos to Grist for a great post, which spurred my post today:
We all know about our carbon footprint. But about water footprint? Waterfootprint.org is a site that takes a hard look at water consumption and how it affects our environment. Specifically: the amount of water each of us uses, and its overall [...]
Oprah celebrated Earth Day with an entire show devoted to ways to save the planet. Oprah-style of course. This means that she had special guests ranging from Julia Roberts to Sandra Bullock to Al Gore.
The show focused on several main areas:
1. Organic Eating:
Julia Roberts and green expert Sophie Uliano discussed the top seven organic foods [...]
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Today is Earth Day. More than anytime in our lives, the businesses in our lives are becoming eco-friendly, touting all-natural and selling us Green products.
Which is a little unusual, but ultimately good thing…
When we can tell that their product is actually Green.
Any confusion you feel is not limited to any one area. From [...]
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Earth Day was born 38 years ago tomorrow. According to what I know, it was an event triggered by public outrage over the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969.
The first Earth Day I remember acknowledging was in 1990. That seems to be the point where “modern environmentalism” was re-born. I grew up in [...]
Top Bay Area greenhouse gas emitters, 2005.
As we gear up for Earth Day this coming week, alot of news sources are digging up more and more environmentally relevant information.
This weekend, SFgate.com has a number of great articles bringing environmental issues into focus. One of these articles covers the fact that many Bay Area businesses will [...]
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HealthCanada, a Canadian regulatory body, has stepped forward and reiterated what many already know: BPA, aka bisphenol A, is unsafe when in contact with human consumables. They are recommending a total ban of their use, specifically in baby bottles.
An ubiquitous chemical found in hard plastic water bottles, DVDs, CDs [...]
