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Earth911 has put out a neat iPhone app that makes recycling locally super simple, telling you exactly what you can recycle and where to take it when you're ready to send it off. ...
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GreenDaily has launched a handy dandy toolbar for your PC that'll help you green up not only your computer settings, but also your printing and life in general. ...

Lately, individual car ownership has become less and less attractive in cities, whilst carsharing services have become more and more inviting: more commodity (no need to hunt for parking spaces, less bills,…), less expensive and greener.
Gulpshare is a new European
carpooling platform launched in Portugal (see ad below), by the oil company Galp Energia....

Big box store Target has launched a
charity campaign on Facebook, selecting 10 charities that will compete to receive a chunk of $3 million. You and your Facebook profile could help make some dreams come true, including for one charity in particular - the
National Park Foundation. ...
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OpenShaspa Home Energy Kit is a cool new tool coming out today from
Shaspa that allows you to monitor and control your home's energy use while roaming around a virtual world. It's an online gamer's dream way of making sure their home is energy efficient - much like
Stanford professor Byron Reeves has predicted, and hopes will catch on. However, when virtual gaming uses a huge amount of power to keep people online, does it really present an option for significant energy savings?...
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WiserEarth users have taken it upon themselves to spread the word about green social networking by launching a campaign to help create opensource software that will make the resources found on WiserEarth viewable any website. It's an effort that will help more people and organizations connect with each other to do good green work. ...
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Mobile phone apps that help consumers make more eco-friendly choices are coming out right and left, like
3rdWhale,
Good Guide, and
Locavore. But what if you just want to know about...paper? Greenpeace decided to hop on the app bandwagon and fill this little shopping niche. ...

In March we talked about
Green My PC, a
Facebook app that had some potential for saving energy by automatically setting your PC's power options for better consumption, and then making a social networking challenge out of it. We were a bit ho-hum about the app, but it turns out 300 people did use it during a 30-day Earth Day Countdown to a Healthier Planet challenge, and it got some results worth noting. ...
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So what if you could become a
citizen scientist simply by using your iPhone? Scientists are working on an app that would let users simply snap photos of a plant's leaves and automatically upload the information to a central database where it could be accessed for research, helping scientists follow what's happening with our natural world as the climate changes. ...

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SonicWALL
We at TreeHugger often make the point that telecommuting makes green sense in many situations. The trouble is
convincing business managers of this. A new calculator by SonicWALL could help turn more managers on to allowing employees to telecommute once they see the financial and environmental benefits. ...

Google's Blog announced that a 90-minute, full-length documentary called
Home will be available on YouTube on June 5, right on time for
World Environment Day. The film is a collection of aerial footage of our planet, and shows why we have go go into high-speed mode when it comes to preservation efforts. It sounds amazing, and luckily, you don't have to wait until June 5 to get a taste. Click through for a sneak preview. ...
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NPR has put out an
interesting interactive map detailing the US's power grid and sources of power. By clicking through the map, you can see where different types of power plants are located, the concentration of those types of power, and the different capacities for renewable energy generation like solar and wind for different areas. ...
Cricket, a wireless voice and broadband Internet service provider, points to the fact that Americans toss about 130 million cell phones a year, totaling about 65,000 tons of waste annually, and yet only about 5% of that is
recycled. So they're hoping to make it easier to recycle, and therefore boost those rates by offering printable pre-paid postage for sending in your old cell phone for recycling. ...

Yesterday on Earth Day, Cisco and San Francisco unveiled Urban EcoMap, a tool that works to educate people on the importance of living sustainably within cities. It's a pilot project that began back in the fall of 2008, and gathers data for various elements of the city, from
GHG emissions to
waste management. It tells residents exactly how green their city is. The project is still undergoing tweaks and Cisco wants your feedback. Click through to watch a video demo and find out how you can put in your two cents. ...
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Last week
Earth Aid launched a free online service that encourages households to conserve energy wherever possible. The service looks at the home's energy bills, calculates the energy savings, bundles it to be sold as a carbon credit, and then sends cash payments to consumers. The more a user saves, the more they're paid. If there's a big question mark hanging above your head, we felt the same way when we heard about the service. ...
Dashboards are already an important part of
smart homes,
smart driving...but what about smart gardening? Folia provides a dashboard to help users know what plants are being sown and harvested, as well as weather forecasts, seed organizing, and photo organizing so that your garden can grow at its best....
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We want to take a moment and congratulate Call2Recycle on hitting a big milestone. Since starting up in 1994, the recycling program has succeeded in collecting over 50 million pounds of
rechargeable batteries, helping to divert them from landfills. With
some cities now requiring rechargeable batteries be recycled, Call2Recycle is an important resource. Make an Earth Day action out of helping Call2Recycle hit its next milestone - click through to find out how you can utilize it. ...

Clipping coupons is an appealing idea when you're trying to save money, but what if you're also trying to be green and avoid using paper? If you've skipped getting the newspaper or signed on to the no-junk-mail list, then you might miss out on quite a few opportunities. You can capture at least a few of them with a mobile app called Coupon Sherpa. ...
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