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How To Find Garage Sales Happening Near You
Despite the usefullness of resources like FreeCycle for extending the functional lives of our stuff, we think garage sales are still the kings of the hidden bargain, and a great way to find stuff you need but don't have, without buying something
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TreeHugger Radio: Britain Misses the Mark, Reviving the Highlands, and The Blackening of Google
After Britain made exciting commitments to renewable energy, leaked information now reveals that the country can’t even come close to meeting its goal of 20% renewables by 2020. We speak to Richard Hawkins of ZeroCarbonBritain about how the mark was
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Best of The Panelist
Waiting to pull the trigger on financials might be a good call. During the 1998 Asian Credit Crisis and the 1994/95 Mexican Peso devaluation, once the disturbance was over,
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Secret, Efficient Power Supplies From Google
Google, google, google, google - what don't they have a green pinky in these days? The coolio-video above 'strates how they design the custom, super efficient power supplies for their server farms. Google builds its own machines (and has for some time)
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Google Teams Up With °Climate Group for Carbon Offsets
Boy, howdy, Google's Greening is sure getting up a head of steam. Their endeavours are coming thick and fast these days. In just the past few weeks alone, we've reported on CAD, servers and cars. Now we learn they've teamed up with the °Climate
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Google, Dell, Intel Want Greener PCs
About 50% of the power that a computer draws from the wall is wasted, turned to heat and sound. When you take into account that computers often sit idle or on standby, then the situation appears even worse. Servers are rather better, but still not ideal,
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Marketing Design: Green Modern Prefab Meets Google
Michelle Kaufmann was one of the first architects to successfully sell modern prefab, was an early proponent of green design, has gained control of the production process by building her own factory, and is singlehandedly revolutionizing the industry.
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SketchUp Goes Green
I have been a Sketchup user since it started, and was ambivalent when Google bought it, I had been spending hundreds of dollars on it and now it was being given away! I continue with my SketchUp Pro but realize now the power of free, now there are tens
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Black Google Saves Energy
A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all
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TH Blog Love — Our Favourite Greens Of The Week
Eco-Chick: What Would Google Say? by Starre Vartan "I love creative projects, and this one is interesting. Entitled "What Would Google Say?" the site's creator put together the first 200 images that come up under a Google image search for global
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Search the Green Web with GreenMaven.com
You don't have to thrash about the wilds of Google for your eco-conscious queries, true believers. GreenMaven's niche-based search engine pulls results from thousands of environment-positive Web sites and news stories to help you narrow it down,
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Applied Materials Outdoing Google's Solar Project
TreeHugger has reported several times on the Googleplex's alternative energy dreams. Those dreams have become a reality with a 1.6 megawatt solar installation that is larger than any other private solar installation in the world. Well, in true silicon
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Take the Google Line To Work
Google gets hugs for its solar panels, if less so then for their giant jet, but you know they are the real thing when they do the less obvious, more expensive and really effective things. They essentially have built a private transit system of 32 buses
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The Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations 2007
The Global 100 list of the most sustainable corporations in the world has been updated for 2007. As with last year, the list was compiled by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors and Corporate Knights, and includes companies from 16 countries in sectors
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Google's Goals Include Carbon Neutrality
An Google internal memo entitled "Big Goals and Directions," was recently leaked to the public. Amongst promises to expand advertising revenue another billion dollars, and to control spam in 20 different languages, Google also expounded on plans to
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Google's Solar Trees Due To Bloom This Spring
Yes, that's right, groves of pole-mounted solar panels, so-called "solar trees" are the newest addition to Google's ambitious solar project for their Mountain View, California, headquarters. Estimated to feed about 30 percent of the complex's entire
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Google TechTalks: Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Biofuels
Most people would agree that Google employs a high number of very smart people. One of the ways they keep sharp is by giving the opportunity to some of their employees and to outsiders to speak at the company. They call the events "Google TechTalks"
