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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:41:00 +0000

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of some of the world's top investigative reporters. Launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ globally extends the Center's style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 journalists ...

TreeHugger found this 47 hours ago on publicintegrity.org

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Open Ended Play Lets Kids’ Imaginations Set Sail!

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:29:12 +0000

Editor’s note: The following piece is guest post by Dalit Holzman from Natural Pod, one of our favorite eco-friendly toy companies . Dalit is part of the Natural Pod team ( www.naturalpod.com ) and raises her two daughters as open-endedly as possible…with the help of some boxes. ...

jenniferlance posted 3 hours ago from ecochildsplay.com

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Rebekah Green rolls out green gems

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:50:19 +0000

Her bio reads like a Who Who of Green — a veritable powerhouse of living an ecofriendly, sustainable lifestyle. Over the course of the next year, Rebekah Green (pictured below) is poised to kickoff food, clothing and shelter merchandising — all in the name of green. I’m ...

carlosescobar posted 4 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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JalexStudios upcycled LModern 2 coffee table

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:15:22 +0000

The LModern coffee table is the tasteful merging of a recycled door (I’m still looking for it), handsome, upcycled Brazilian Walnut parquet flooring and an L shaped piece of wall shelving. 49″l x 30″w $750 @ jalexstudios etsy shop

carlosescobar posted 4 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Rebekah Green

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:54:05 +0000

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Rebekak Green Sustainable Earrings: Precious Gifts for Little Girls

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Rebekah Green has been globally aware and environmentally conscious since the second grade. Throughout her life she’s done a lot for the “green” movement. Her latest efforts include a sustainable line of earrings made from recycled gold. She even has several designs ...

jenniferlance posted 5 hours ago from ecochildsplay.com

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The latest, greenest eco-fashions

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:32:35 +0000

Wondering what styles will be in eco-fashion this fall and winter? Earlier today, green-thinking fashionistas got treated to an eco-vegan fashion show at the Green Blogger Convention at Environmental Furniture in Los Angeles.

Ramsay Home found this 17 hours ago on mnn.com

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EPA Green Chemistry Awards

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:00:15 +0000

The EPA gives out Green Chemistry Awards to the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry applies across the life cycle, including the design, manufacture, and use of a chemical product. When you are looking ...

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How To Live Environmentally Friendly

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:35:26 +0000

Both radical and moderate ways define people’s efforts of learning how to live environmentally friendly. It all resumes to the willingness to make personal changes. Nothing can be implemented by force and only personal awareness and consideration for the natural world can make a ...

Mindzle posted 13 hours ago from mindzle.com

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EWG Gives School Cleaning Supplies Their Report Cards (and it ain’t pretty)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:17:18 +0000

Last week, while volunteering at my daughter’s classroom Halloween party, I flinched a little as I saw one of the other parents dutifully strolling around dispensing the requisite waterless, chem-filled hand sanitizers. Aside from my skepticism that anti- bacterial soaps will actually do ...

jenniferlance posted 18 hours ago from ecochildsplay.com

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Phish Reduces Water Bottle Consumption at Festival 8 With Innovative Program

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:54:06 +0000

If you’ve ever stuck around after an open air rock show and witnessed the carnage that remains, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that the amount of plastic disposable water bottles left on the ground is staggering. Really, try it some time. Not only will you be ...

mattgup posted 19 hours ago from greenupgrader.com

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Live Earth - Official Website

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:01:07 +0000

Earth911.com found this 12 days ago on liveearth.org

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Eco Homes: Sustainable Tree House evolves with its inhabitants

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:15:21 +0000

Eco Factor: Treehouse made from sustainably sourced wood gets powered by renewable energy. Working with Dans mon Arbre , Industrial designer Benoît Fray has unveiled a sustainable treehouse that is constructed from locally sourced wood. The “Tree House” is a living space ...

TreeHugger found this 26 hours ago on ecofriend.org

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Organic Beer and Wine

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:01:49 +0000

BeerTown.org While not a retailer, BeerTown.org features a brewpub locator to help you find your local small-scale beer producer. Wolaver s markets three organic beers, as well as an organic hard cider. Although most organic hops come from New Zealand and Germany, Wolaver s uses organic hops ...

Earth911.com found this 5 days ago on greenamericatoday.org

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EcoSkin Collections - Official Website

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

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Holiday libations as green as the Grinch

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Skål! It's time to start planning holiday parties, and that means egg nog, champagne and sparkling wine, hearty beers and ales ... But being the eco-savvy person you are, you'd prefer yours to be organic , Earth-friendly and sustainably produced. We'll drink to that. Crack open a tall ...

w3ace posted 24 hours ago from supereco.com

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Handmade Options for Winterizing Your Home

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:26:39 +0000

Brr! It feels like the temperature dropped over night! According to the folks at EPA’s Energy Star, about half of our home energy use goes to heating and cooling our homes, and we use the vast majority of that energy on heat during the chilly months. Luckily, those crafty Etsy sellers have ...

mattgup posted 24 hours ago from greenupgrader.com

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Weekly LEED roundup – 11/6/09

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:39:24 +0000

REI – Rou

Ramsay Home found this 30 hours ago on mnn.com

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Homedics Restore Clean Water pitcher

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:41:56 +0000

Here’s a another great alternative to buying bottled water. This Restore Clean Water System consists of an 8-cup pitcher and an ultraviolet adapter. Restore has a unique dual-filter process for eliminating solid particulate material as well as bacteria and viruses from your tap water. ...

carlosescobar posted 25 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Future Food Comes to Planet Green!

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:17:40 +0000

Changing the way people think about food is no simple task. But the Future Food team is up for the challenge, as they seek to not only redefine food, but also look for solutions to some of the world's most pressing environmental issues.

TreeHugger found this 25 hours ago on planetgreen.discovery.com

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Chinese herbs may prevent diabetes the organic way

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:28:00 +0000

(www.Borganic.org) Type 2 diabetes is an international epidemic and 380 million people throughout the world are expected to develop the condition by 2025. The vast majority of the time, pre-diabetes (also called impaired glucose tolerance or IGT), which is marked by higher than normal blood ...

Jimmy R posted 26 hours ago from borganic.org

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recycled polyester doggie jacket

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:12:14 +0000

Our good friends at Olive are always on the prowl for innovative products that benefit the discerning eco dog. Here’s a nifty-looking jacket for keeping your favorite hound warm and happy about being outdoors in the often chilly elements. Cloudburst makes this jacket from recycled ...

carlosescobar posted 26 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Help your skin – A DIY Pumpkin Face Mask

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:39:06 +0000

With Halloween behind us, it’s near time to pack away the festive fall décor to make space for the merrier holiday gear. What to do with the pumpkin that sat on your porch stoop? While the thrifty bakers among us will likely turn it into a Thanksgiving pie, the beauty hounds can do one better ...

carlosescobar posted 28 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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MAC Alliance: Promise of Clean Tech in Region

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:22 +0000

Day Two of the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance Conference this week featured the first clean tech track in the history of the conference, an indication that the sector is emerging in this region. The clean tech track opened with a "financing panel," a good mix of investors, analysts, and ...

Greentech Media: Cleantech Investing found this 29 hours ago on greenskeptic.blogspot.com

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a big stack of green news

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:08:45 +0000

The Republicans took there toys and went home…Democrats Advance Contentious Climate Bill – msnbc OK kids…let’s go to Target in our excessively big hunk of metal…Electric SUV’s: A Smaller Footprint for Big Vehicles – cs monitor The Quest to Save the ...

carlosescobar posted 28 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Introducing mydearthing- An Eco-Line That Has Stolen My Heart

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:34:08 +0000

Last spring, my best friend got married. Three weeks before her blessed wedding day, a bachelorette party was held. Two days before that, I purchased an American Apparel black dress for the party. It was skin tight, short, and featured a scoop neck in the front as well as the back. I ...

Ramsay Home found this 32 hours ago on feelgoodstyle.com

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Getting excited about Greenbuild 2009

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:13:59 +0000

Next week I’ll be

Ramsay Home found this 32 hours ago on mnn.com

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Eco Cars: EnergySure to develop solar and wind powered electric vehicle

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:09:31 +0000

Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric vehicle designed to run on renewable energy. Renewable energy company EarthSure has announced that the company is planning to build an electric vehicle that will harness solar and wind energy to fuel its battery bank. Dubbed AirRay , the patent pending ...

Green Diary found this 32 hours ago on ecofriend.org

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Top green design from Tel Aviv

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:57:49 +0000

As you may have noticed, there’s no shortage of home designs that incorporate unlikely upcycled objects … wine racks made of skis, speakers made from Dorito bags,

Ramsay Home found this 33 hours ago on mnn.com

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Method O Mop All Floor Cleaning kit

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:41 +0000

Method has a new O Mop All Floor care kit with compostable sweeper clothes and lemon-ginger all floor cleaner, $32.99 from Amazon. Ergonomic mop, corn-based sweeping clothes, reusable microfiber mop pad. Got a Swifter? You could probably buy their $18 compostable, corn-derived sweeper dusters ...

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surfboard coffee table kit

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:06:51 +0000

Are you into multi-tasking and reducing the amount of ’stuff’ you have? Do you live in a 100 square foot beach cabana? Too cheap to buy furniture? Here’s an idea – use your surfboard as a coffee table by night and a wave carving machine by day. This kit allows you to ...

carlosescobar posted 42 hours ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Earth Friendly Products

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:11:25 +0000

Earth friendly products are goods and services that don’t have a negative impact on the environment either in the manufacturing process or the consume. Such items are easy to recognize by the eco-labels, nevertheless, not everybody will get the same exposure to earth friendly products. In ...

Mindzle posted 42 hours ago from mindzle.com

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Eco Friendly Products

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:11:30 +0000

The categories of eco friendly products have become a lot more numerous and versatile with the increased insistence on green lifestyles. If very few green products were available ten years ago, now we can shop for gift ideas, green services, organic foods, green gifts, green clothes and even ...

Mindzle posted 42 hours ago from mindzle.com

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Support green schools by bidding on a celeb

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:28:01 +0000

Want to meet Oprah backstage — or hang out on Dustin Hoffman’s set for a day? Then head over to the 6th annual Chevy Chase Green Auction to get your online bid in.

green LA girl found this 2 days ago on mnn.com

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Top 10 eco toys under $30

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Preschoolers could care less about how safe and sustainable a toy is. All that matters to them is that a plaything sustains their gnat-sized attention span for more than a nanosecond. Why should they care? It's not their job to know that their favorite, lead poison-painted Bedtime Dora was ...

w3ace posted 2 days ago from supereco.com

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The Smells Of Christmas

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:14:00 +0000

Go to any big box store and you find a lot of air fresheners, candles, and all kinds of things to make your home "smell like Christmas." But what's in those products? A lot of candles have lead wicks, the wax is made of a petroleum by product, and the fragrance oils can contain hormone ...

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Bob Barker Donates $1 Million To University For Professorship In Animal Rights

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Bob Barker is stepping up to the plate once again and getting involved in animal welfare issues. Barker recently donated $1 million to Drury University to establish the Dorothy Jo Barker Professorship in Animal Rights. The program, which is named after his late wife, will offer intense ...

Green Daily found this 48 hours ago on ecorazzi.com

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‘2012′ Lastest Film To Recycle Sets, Offset Production

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Director Roland Emmerich’s new disaster movie 2012 is about to hit theaters — and as the Mother Nature Network recently found out, there was an effort to keep the $260 million dollar film as green as possible. Emmerich, who drives a hybrid and powers his home with solar panels, ...

Green Daily found this 48 hours ago on ecorazzi.com

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Parents: Send this note to your school principal to protect your child from swine flu vaccinations

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:29:00 +0000

(www.borganic.org) After reading about the forced vaccination of a Brooklyn schoolgirl who ended up in the hospital, many parents are concerned about how they might protect their own children from school-based vaccination schemes. To help parents protect their children, I've written a letter ...

Jimmy R posted 47 hours ago from borganic.org

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Toxic chemicals in school cleaners

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:28:01 +0000

Most MNN readers already know to avoid the toxic chemicals in many conventional cleaning products, but many people are obviously still buying those less-than-green cleaning supplies from off the supermarket shelves.

green LA girl found this 2 days ago on mnn.com

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Restrictive laws wall off hemp bricks

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Assess for us, if you would, the qualities of this sustainable construction material: Bio-negative manufacturing (more carbon dioxide is locked up in the process of growing and harvesting the component materials than is released during the production of the binding ingredient) 100% ...

w3ace posted 2 days ago from supereco.com

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Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:00:09 +0000

Suzie Boss: Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to...

Energy Bulletin - found this 2 days ago on worldchanging.com

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6 misguided DIY projects

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:36:46 +0000

You got the ingredients mix wrong on that DIY shampoo and now sport a hairstyle that’s been kindly described as early “Telly Savalas”. The t-shirt quilt you’re creating chronicles your pathetic journey from Black Sabbath worshiper to Bon Jovi fanatic (it also contains 17 ...

carlosescobar posted 2 days ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Oscillo - Official Website

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

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recycled computer hard drive clock

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:27:03 +0000

What time is it? Time to make a clock out of your tired old computer’s hard drive. This clock should appeal to computer freaks, geekery fans or anyone related to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. Made from the actual recycled remains of a dead computer. The clock’s quartz movement runs ...

carlosescobar posted 2 days ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Natural Pod tree branch building blocks

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:02:29 +0000

Now here’s a toy for those rugged green kids in your household. These natural wood building blocks are made in Canada by Natural Pod. The blocks are created from kiln-dried, locally-sourced, renewable alder. The colorful, 10 piece set contains a bunch of unique pieces that come in ...

carlosescobar posted 2 days ago from alternativeconsumer.com

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Steve Fleischli: Getting More Out of the Men's Room

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:26:29 +0000

The Metropolitan Water District is considering two competing projects to provide Southern California an extra fifty million gallons of freshwater per day. These two projects, however, take very different approaches toward addressing the problem of limited freshwater supplies in this arid region. For one project, Poseidon Resources wants to build a desalination facility in the San Diego area to tap the ocean for its seemingly limitless supply of water. For the other project, Coastal Restoration ...

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Federal Tax Credit on Windows, Doors, Skylights

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:00:36 +0000

A reminder that there is a 30% upto $1500 Federal Tax Credit on Qualifying Windows, Doors, Storm Windows, Storm Doors, and Skylights. If you have been thinking about replacing these items, you might as well upgrade now and save some money. Purchases made after 6/30/2009 must have U factor <= ...

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Kathleen Plate’s recycled glass home collection: Dumpster diving as art

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:22:00 +0000

Why throw out that empty wine bottle — when you could wear it down a fashion runway? For artist Kathleen Plate , dumpster diving for old glass bottles is a frequent first step towards creating her upcycled chandeliers, glass wall installations, pillows — and even high-fashion ...

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The Old 24-Hour-Rule? Not for Swine Flu!

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:14:44 +0000

Every parent knows the rule. Fever-free without medication for 24 hours. That’s the period of time during which a parent is supposed to wait before sending Junior back to regularly scheduled activities after a bout with a fever. That’s the rule we followed. After running a temperature over the ...

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