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This is getting interesting. According to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, communities around California are looking to gain power over their energy.
Communities such as Marin County are going up against PG&E to force the change to renewable energy. Frustrated by lack of options in this arena, these communities have [...]
The Sundance Channel has been doing Green content on TV for over a year now, via The Green. Sundance calls this, “television’s first regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated to the environment.” With shows such as “Eco Biz” and “Big Ideas For A Small Planet”, Sundance has brought relevant, interesting Green programming to TV.
And now it looks [...]
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There is a recent post on PlanetGreen.com about a significant change coming up:
Planet Green is about to remove the word “beta” from our header and launch a new site with a whole slew of new features to create an exciting interactive experience. We’re about to migrate the current site to a new [...]
HGTV is giving away a Green home. And a GMC Yukon Hybrid. No really!
According to the site:
One lucky person will win a new GMC Yukon Hybrid and this beautifully furnished eco-friendly home in Tradition Hilton Head, S.C.
The house in South Carolina plus the Yukon Hybrid is a grand prize package worth $850,000. Not too shabby.
The [...]
Stumbled on this today, a pretty great representation of the real cost of bottled water.
This is worthy of printing and posting on a bulletin board at work or school.
Any thoughts?
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Funny, funny article on SFGate.com today: The Prius from hell is green, of course by staff writer David Curran.
The premise? A man who has an uber-green neighbor that makes him feel implicitly guilty over every non-Green thing he does.
The Green neighbor drives a Prius (of course) with the personalized license plate which has [...]
Checking out one of my favorite green blogs, Ecorazzi, the other day, I caught this post, which references an article on MSNBC.com. :
Serj Tankian, the frontman for Los Angeles rock band System of a Down, is so dedicated to saving the planet that he wants to launch a virtual concert tour to reduce his carbon [...]
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I found a very cool site while trawling around this week: OurGreenCities.com.
They are devoted, as their mission statement says:
To help local city leaders understand how their governments can make significant progress toward becoming more sustainable
OK, next question: how does one qualify a sustainable city?
In short, a sustainable city seeks to protect, improve, [...]
Interesting post over on Treehugger today.
New York City is running a campaign called GreeNYC to convince New Yorkers to take steps to reduce greenhouse gases. New York design firm Turf was hired to designed a “stylized” apple, a longtime symbol of the city
Apple is challenging a patent made by the City of New York’s travel [...]
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MSN is stirring it up with another negative slant article on organic food. I suppose when the economy is terrible, the Final Four is over and there is nothing more to be said about the disaster that is our government, they turn to this.
But there is education in there, and much of this [...]
