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Best of Green: Travel + Nature (Slideshow)
Update: Vote now for Best of Show! Now that the initial voting period has ended, it's time to vote for the 'Best in Show' -- check out the category winners in the Best in Show slideshow, and then click over to Planet Green to View & Vote for your
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Boulder County Man Killed While Cleaning up Highway becomes Legendary
Every now and then it is nice to step back and offer spotlight where it is truly deserved. The story of John Breaux is becoming legendary in Colorado and for good reason. This past January, Breaux was making his usual clean up rounds
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New Google Earth Layer Shows What US Lands Should Be Off-Limits to Renewable Energy Development
As Senator Feinstein's recent talk about making 500,000 acres of the Mojave desert off-limits to renewable energy development, on the conservation grounds, goes to show, conflicts over siting large projects is no less likely just because the project is
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Women's Bean Project Teaches Job Skills to Help Women Overcome Poverty
It all started with $500 worth of beans and a desire to help disenfranchised women break out of the cycle of poverty. Two decades later, the Women's Bean Project employs 40 chronically unemployed and impoverished
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Occasional Car Program Sets the Pace in Denver, Colorado
Last Tuesday kicked off the beginning to the Denver based car share program, known as Occassionalcar.com. The program is one of the first in the U.S. to take a stab at reducing the amount of vehicles on the streets, by making them
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7 Hot CEOs and Their Cool Green Companies
Scott Mackinlay Hahn, Loomstate. Photo courtesy of Loomstate. Sustainable companies are on the rise but that didn't make it any easier for us to pick out the hottest eco-CEOs paving the way. However, we've managed to narrow the list down to seven that
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Share Contact Info Via SMS With Contxts
Stop patting your pockets for business cards made out of pulped and bleached dead trees—analog contact info is so 2007, according to Contxts, a free new service that allows you to text your deets to your latest acquaintance.
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More Power to Poop in Colorado's Zoos
Photo via: J Hull Poop power, err otherwise known as biomass energy, has been a part of the Treehugger vocabulary for awhile now, but especially over the past couple months. Renewable energy comes in many forms, but one of the least obvious would have
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Dept of Interior Cancels Bush Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar may think that oil shale has great potential but at least he's scrapping plans put in place by the Bush
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New Belgium Brewery: Work to Bike More
Pro-bike Billboard from Green Beer Company Generally speaking, we TreeHuggers are not huge fans of billboards - especially when billboards have more rights than trees. But if they do or say cool green things, they tend to get a more sympathetic
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Martin Drake Power Plant In Colorado Tests New Coal-Plant Emissions Scrubber
End-of-pipe pollution control add-ons are what most coal-fired plant owners in the USA are planning for these days.
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The Top 7 Greenest Ski Destinations in the U.S.
Ski resorts have been proven to have a negative impact on the environment, a fact that is unfortunate news for downhill skiers, snowboarders, and
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It's Winter Bike To Work Day In Boulder
More snowy cities should celebrate their winter cyclists, instead of ignoring or barely tolerating them. The City of Boulder goes all out: You wake up, look out the window and see that last night's snowstorm has left a blanket of snow that appears to
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Obama and McCain Political Banners Team-up to Help Homeless in Colorado
At the end of every election, there is always a leftover pile of buttons, signs, banners, broken and elated hearts. This year was no different than any other, and while many states had recycle programs to help clean-up the
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Two Universities Taking the Initiative to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
Good news travels in pairs and today we have two stories from two separate universities who have taken the steps to reduce their carbon footprint through various program initiatives. The first
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90-95% Cost Reduction in Algae Production Claimed by Solix Biofuels
Though the first phase of the Solix Biofuels facility outside of Durango, Colorado won't be up and running for another 12-18 months, the Fort Collins-based company is wasting no time in touting the benefits of its technique for turning
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Sometimes the Combination of Beer and Bikes Can Mix
It is not a natural relationship, beer and bikes, but New Belgium, a beer brewing company located in Fort Collins, CO, has made it one. New Belgium's Tour de Fat announced this week that they reached a million
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Bikes From 2008 DNC Donated to Colorado U Boulder
The University of Colorado - Boulder just received 50 more Schwinn bikes to add to their fleet of Adopt-A-Bikes, now making it 150 strong. The bikes were used at the DNC and RNC conventions this year as part of a Bikes
