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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Looks like we have a Green Celebrity update.
Apparently, Leonardo DiCaprio has purchased an apartment in an environmentally-friendly building in New York City.
According to this post, DiCaprio has paid an unknown amount for the luxury pad in the 263-unit eco-friendly Riverhouse complex.
DiCaprio’s new home, which overlooks the Hudson River, comes with programmable thermostats, a 24-hour [...]
Unless you live off of the grid, oil prices affect you on some level. And the rise in fuel prices is one of the most frustrating daily issues for consumers.
That said, we all know that the oil companies rake in incredible profits. Last year was no different.
As noted in an article from today’s San Francisco [...]
Starting early Saturday morning, Google users logged on an found the above screen at the Google homepage.
I’m sure most people were confused until they clicked on the link that read:
We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn - Earth Hour.
As I posted earlier, Earth Hour is/was Saturday, March 29, 2008. People around the world [...]
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I did a post on the upcoming California Apple Moth spray campaign earlier in the month.
The premise is that, like it or not, thousands of California residents in several counties will be getting sprayed with a pesticide that is meant to neutralize the Apple Moth. This bug is claimed to be a major [...]
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We’re ten days away from Earth Hour. As I posted last month, Earth Hour started in Sydney, Australia last year.
The point: get everyone in the city, people and businesses, to coordinate a shutoff of their lights for one hour. The results were astounding:
On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney [...]
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St. Patrick’s Day has special significance, but most people know it just for the beer we’re encouraged to drink.
And does anyone outside of Illinois know that the Chicago River is dyed green each year for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration? Of course, it’s an environmentally-friendly agent they use for color (nudge, nudge).
In [...]