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Simple Shower Design with Techy Features Saves Water
It seems like simply showering as quickly as you can with a low-flow shower head should be enough advice for anyone wanting to cut down on their water consumption in the bathroom. However, admittedly it's tough for some of us to
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Wal-Mart Wants to Beat Amazon by Adding Drive-Thru Shopping Option
Wal-Mart teeter-totters on our green radar, hitting both high and low notes for green. But this latest idea comes right out of left field. In order to beat out Amazon, the giant of American consumerism has dreamed
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WorldChanging's Alex Steffen Tells Us How to Build a Better World
Image credit: Good WorldChanging's Alex Steffen has a few simple ideas for making the world a better place. As part of Good's looks at "the world after COP15," he has explained his thoughts and strategies.Everything from waste to heat, electricity to
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World's Greenest Data Center? IBM and Syracuse Complete Their Game-Changing Project (Video)
Back at the end of May, we wrote about IBM and Syracuse working on a data center that would use 50% less energy than standard data centers. This week they announced the project is completed, finishing up in a mere 6 months a $12.4
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Tahoe's Environmental Dilema: Build Green or Not at All?
The city of Crystal Bay, Nevada, a quaint town on Lake Tahoe's northern shore, has become the ideological battleground for local
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Outspoken Carbon Monitoring: Zerofootprint's RFID TalkingPlugs
The CEO of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world's power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon
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Cleantech Open 09 - Dot UI Makes Energy Consumption Data Available to Visually Impaired
Platforms that show us our energy usage are getting to be a dime a dozen. Not that it's a bad thing, of course. Knowing our data is a big part of reducing consumption. Dot UI is a start-up wanting to make energy consumption as
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San Francisco Green Festival 2009 Shows How a True "Green" Event Should Be Run
This weekend, San Francisco held Green Festival, the nation's largest green consumer living event. Over 40,000 people packed into the Concourse Exhibition Center to see over 350 businesses, artists, nonprofits, and over 125
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Oh Tannenboing! Something to Spring for This Holiday
The Christmas tree is not the only thing that mars the holiday's environmental record, but it is certainly a major player. While farmed-raised trees are inherently "green," farmers' proclivity for pesticides and shipping to
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In Defense Of TetraPak
TetraPak, the company that makes aseptic milk carton-like packaging that holds everything from wine to soup to tomato sauce, has been receiving a lot of coverage in the green media lately, both good and bad. This surge in
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Chew on This! Boston Suburb Hires Goats to Mow Lawn
A Boston suburb is sidelining commercial mowers in favor of a local farmer's goats to maintain a public
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Register for the Symposium on Design and Industry in the Age of Sustainability Today
Including sustainability as a best practice has influenced business, but it has fundamentally changed the technology, design, architecture, and textile industries. These changes are leading the new green
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Resource Overconsumption Not Population Growth the Real Environmental Problem: Fred Pearce
Every time I write about overpopulation it's like poking the proverbial hornet's nest: Nothing, and I mean nothing, evokes as visceral responses as suggesting people have fewer children. Well, in a new piece for
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Newsweek Ranks America's Greenest Companies
It wasn't easy. In fact, Newsweek's Deputy Editor Kathy Deveny admits that if she knew how hard it would be, she probably wouldn't have. But what's done is done: Newsweek spent more than a year vetting the 500 biggest companies in America and ranking
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Apple Adds More Environmental Impact Information to Website
Yesterday, Apple updated more information about the environmental impacts of its products on its website, bringing a little more transparency to consumers. That added information includes life cycle analysis of greenhouse gas
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An Ink-Wasting HP Ad for...HP Ink
Who designed this, who approved it, and who let it get out of the marketing department at HP? This company just can't seem to stay out of
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Dow Jones Names Nokia the World's Most Sustainable Tech Company
Now here's something to stretch your imagination: Nokia as the world's most sustainable technology company. Maybe, maybe not - something like this is sure to entice debate. But according to Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes,
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HP Announces Commitment to Reduce GHGs by 40% by 2011
Computer and electronics manufacturer HP announced today its goal to reduce its energy consumption and green house gas emissions of its products to 40% under its 2005 levels, all by 2011. As the Greenpeace tagging incident underscored, HP doesn't always
