Kristin Underwood
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Get Paid to Save Energy and Sell Your Credits On the Carbon Market
Do you love to compare your monthly energy savings? Do you have spreadsheets tracking years worth of data showing monthly snapshots of each new energy efficient upgrade you've installed? Well then you're in luck because
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Native Trails Copper Sinks Are Classy and Kill Germs Too
Image via: Native Trails Native Trails constructs handmade sinks (for kitchen or bathroom) from recycled copper and they look great!! While that hammered copper sink adds a bit of texture and life to your kitchen, that copper provides other (health)
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An Insiders Look at Greening Movies Thanks to 'Away We Go'
Most DVDs contain clips and extra footage highlighting funny outakes, deleted scenes and general commentary from the cast. With the release of Away We Go, the filmmakers wanted to highlight their efforts to go green throughout the production of the
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Trash Talk: US Considers Tighter Regulations for E-Waste Exports
With more countries tightening down on their e-waste disposal and exporting regulations and requirements, and with communities in the US requiring special disposal of E-Waste, but no
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South Africa Already Using 98% of Surface Water
In a recent update to a study on water resource availability in South Africa, scientists are now warning that previous estimates were off and that there is even less water available than previously estimated,
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Win a Trip to Yosemite for National Parks Week
Last week was National Parks Week, and with the launch Ken Burn's new series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," on PBS, celebrating the great outdoors, it's time to keep the party going. The Sierra Club wants to
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Bottled Water Giant Nestle Coming to Most Threatened River Delta in America?
That's right, reports the Sacramento News & Review, - Nestle Waters North America has pulled out of its bid to get water from McCloud, near Mt. Shasta and instead is setting up shop in Sacramento. We reported just
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thredUP: Like Netflix, But With Clothes
Women on the Great American Apparel Diet might want to turn away from this next article. Today launches the debut of ThredUp and the ability to swap clothes in your wardrobe that you never wear for clothes you will wear. You can swap
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The L Prize: A New Look at an Old Bulb
These days with CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs), and LEDs (light emitting diodes) and everything else, it seems hard (or maybe just taboo) to remember a time when we used something as inefficient as the standard
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EPA Poisons Prairie Dogs; Then They Bleed to Death & Harm Endangered Species
Geez louise, could that sound any more gross or excruciating? Apparently pesticides approved by the EPA for ridding prairies of their dogs are both a horrible way to die and also then
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And Now the Bad News: 11 New Sites Added to Superfund
First the good news: 366 Superfund sites have been deleted from the Superfund National Priorities List since it was created back in 1980. The bad
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Ecuador Says Show Me the Money, Or the Rainforest Gets It
And not just amy amount of money will do, Ecuador has determined that it will cost $360 million USD a year to protect their rainforest, which just happens to sit on 900 million barrels of oil. Fortunately, Ecuador had a
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Hazardous Waste at Fender Instruments Hits a Sour Note
Image via: Mercury State on Flickr.com Fender Musical Instruments Corp and Goodrich Aerostructures Group were both fined by the US Environmental Protection Agency for improper storage and handling of hazardous waste. Yuck! How do you make sure your axe
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Solar-Powered Mailbox: Visible From Half a Football-Field Away
Upon first thought, this seems like a silly invention. Who needs a solar-powered mailbox anyways? Then again, if you've ever been lost in the dark looking for a house in the middle of nowhere, you might appreciate an
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Update: Cooler Planet Says (Despite Recession) 35,000 Americans Want Solar
In 2008, Cooler Planet brought us the extremely useful interactive map that mashed up solar installations in California with tons of stats and figures. In 2009, Cooler Planet brings us an updated solar map that now covers
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Green Guide Network Launches New Cities and Job Board
The Green Guide Network, an online city-specific guide to green in your area has just added a few more cities to the loop. Not in one of those cities? No problem, you can use the guide for travel tips if you happen to be
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Zappos.com Now Sells Recycled Glass Dishware
Image via: Zappos.com Zappos.com, that gigantic shoe website where you can get tasteful and tasteless (and even vegan) shoes at cheap prices, now sells Recycled Glassware? Yep, and with a name like Highbury Collection of Recycled Glassware Serving
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Oops! Montreal Protocol Solutions May Be Causing Global Warming
The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, had the very
