Kristin Underwood
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Locate Your B Corp in Philly, Get a Tax Break
Just this week, the City Council of Philadelphia unanimously decided to offer tax breaks to all B Corps located in the city. Turns out, its a bit of help you help me as they found that most B Corps are also
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Tennessee Town Passes Nation's First Green Food Resolution
Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and
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Kona AfricaBikes Now Help Kids Get to School in Gambia
We reported last year on the Kona AfricaBike program where Kona donated a bike to HIV/AIDS workers in Africa for every two bikes purchased. The bikes then go to help HIV/AIDS workers deliver medicine and
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ShadePlex Fabric Solar Panels Provide Flexibility and Fun
Sounds like something little suzie homemaker would come up with - put fabric on solar panels and offer different colors so customers will like them for their aesthetic appeal. Actually, maybe this idea isn't too far off the
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Rainwater Showers: One Solution for Tybee Island Tourists
Let's say you're a small town or village and a large portion of your economy is dependent on tourism. Let's say you are also, while concerned about sustaining your economy, concerned with sustaining the natural
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Mars Boasts Largest Solar Array in New Jersey
The largest solar array on a food manufacturing plant that is. The Mars Chocolate North America Headquarters building now has 18 acres worth of solar panels offsetting all of those chocolatey emissions. The project, which was
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Buy a Solar Cooker and Offset 1 Ton of CO2
Image via: Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International has come up with a new program just in time for the holidays that allows you to give a gift, help out someone less fortunate, clear the air of harmful emissions AND offset one ton of
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Unity College Students Participate in Community Weatherization Program
Here is something we wish there was a little more of: community members, in this case Unity College (ME) students, going out in the community to help provide a little elbow grease for the planet and for the
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Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009
Since 2003, National Geographic Traveler has surveyed over 200 panelists asking for their top destinations and the results are maybe not as surprising as you might think. After five years of highlighting the best sites, they found that, "When people care
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Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009 (slideshow)
In need of somewhere to travel for New Years? Want to start planning your summer vacation? Now in it's fifth year, National Geographic Traveler magazine has choosing the top green destinations in the world to a
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Brandeis U. Students Create Green Peer Progress Program For Dorms
Many schools started off the 2009 school year by hosting green welcoming events for new students and incoming freshmen. All these wide-eyed co-eds were treated to different ways the school is going green and
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Eating Animals, Or What Not to Eat on Thanksgiving
Eating Animals, the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer (of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close fame) takes a look at what it actually means to give up meat, take it out of our vocab and eliminate it from our most gluttonous
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Solar Birdhouse: Giving Birds the Edge Over Mother Nature
Sooo, birdhouses these days are made from a variety of materials: plastic, recycled plastic, composite, wood, reclaimed wood, recycled milk jugs, you get the picture. And, oftentimes birdhouses today come with upgrades and new gadgets,
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Create Your Own Custom Solar Car and Win $1,000 USD from Kia
Don't we wish it were that easy: Just go online, pick all the green attributes you want, and then pick up you own custom solar car the next week or month at a dealership. You could add solar panels, make it a plug-in,
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Can Consumption Do Something Good for the Planet?
It's easy to harp on the big guys for creating massive big-box stores that sell massive piles of cheap products that ultimately end up in landfills. But let's be honest, from time to time we're still going to need to
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6 Solutions for California's Water Crisis and How We Can Help
As California completes its (ongoing) third year of drought, lawmakers are wondering what do we do? As the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta is under increasing
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St. Paul, Minn. Vows to Cut Waste From Local Events in Half Within Two Years
If you've ever attended a Minnesota Wild game, gone to the RiverCentre Convention Center for a meeting or festival, seen a concert at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium, or been to a reception at 317 on Rice Park, then you've probably contributed to the more
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Turn Back Your Clock and Fan This Halloween for Better Energy Savings
Did you hear that right? What does reversing the direction of your ceiling fan have anything to do with time or temperatures? Plus, you can turn your heater down too, but who wants to turn the heater down when
