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Man Auctions Own Carbon Offsets on Ebay
We're not sure if this is legal, or if it's the first of its kind, but thanks to Tipster Jason for the scoop on this latest in carbon offsets. Seems where there is a need, there is a market and one man has decided to test this
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City of Austin Mandates Home Energy Audits To Avoid Building New Power Plant
Homeowners in Austin, TX are now required to have an energy efficiency audit prior to listing their house for sale. While this is not the first city in the US to mandate such a program, that isn't making it any easier for
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Green Jobs a Joke? If You Ask Some in Congress, Yes
Politicians are hitting the House floor to pontificate on ACES, the climate and energy bill moving through Congress. Whatever you think of the bill, it must be said that most people agree that it will help create new green jobs. But for some in
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Texas Likes Wind Power. Solar, Not So Much.
Image via: Flickr.com The New York Times reported today that the Texas State Legislature voted down a measure over the weekend that would have brought solar incentives to this sunny, southern state. For a state with a lot to gain from solar, why would
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Isn't GM already Green?
With the auto giant General Motors filing for bankruptcy today, they are now promising to change into a lean, green automobile-making machine. But if you look at the facts, they already are green. Is GM the poster child for
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Note to the Obama Administration: Let's Get Past the Stock Talking Points and Have Some More Passion... Like Prince Charles
For we mere mortals who haven't received a Nobel Prize, the convening of the Nobel Laureates Symposium on Climate Change at St James's Palace, London
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Get on the Ground Floor of 5 Million New Jobs with a HAZWOPER Certification
The unemployment situation in the U.S. is serious. Currently there are 13.7 million unemployed people. Of these, 6 million have been added since the beginning of the recession (December of 2007 ) and nearly 4 million
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Green Jobs Booming Along PV Supply Chain
When I first saw the headline that soon solar will support more than just installer jobs, and that it's now become a large enough offshoot to warrant its own news release, I thought, 'great, the idea of starting one's own green,
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A Revolutionary Future: Is the Office Necessary?
Lane Wallace writes in the Atlantic "there's just no substitute for face to face contact with people. No matter how much new technology we develop."
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Weak Renewable Energy Laws Would Lose US Jobs to Asia, Europe
The top wind power companies have united to warn Congress that setting a Renewable Energy Standard too low would mean surrendering a slew of US jobs to Europe and Asia. They've joined forces to counter the message put forth by coal, oil,
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Fred Krupp at the World Innovation Forum: Cap and Trade will Drive Eco-innovation
Attendees from over twenty countries filled the Nokia Theater in NYC this past week to hear speakers on a range of topics, including
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Prejudism and the Green Entrepreneur
As the mortgage and banking industry collapsed last year, a painful reminder that prejudice banking still exists echoed over thousands of foreclosed homes whose minority owners had taken out a second mortgage (with
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Enhancing Our Commitment to a Sustainable Future: Business Roundtable's 2009 Progress Report
In 2007, former British Environment Secretary David Miliband delivered a speech in London entitled Green Business is Good Business. In the address, Miliband affirmed his belief in the power of sustainable business. "Ethical and environmental concerns
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Saul Griffith on Living the Examined Life and Flying Giant Kites (Part One)
After becoming a renewable energy entrepreneur (think massive kites), Saul Griffith started wondering about the greenness of his own life—so he started counting. The exercise became an exploration, which resulted in the website WattzOn.com, a power
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The Best Job in the World: Ben Southall Wins Spot as Island Caretaker
Image: Flickr Ben Southall, from Britain, Wins The Best Job in the World Competition Adventurous, crazy, energetic. Practically a fish. Bachelor of science degree. Keen interest in photography. Experience blogging his tours through Africa. Loves
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Working From Home Can Be Tough on Couples
There is nothing new about whole families working out of the house in New York, and TreeHugger is a big fan of home-working (as we all do it). Margaret Farley Steele of The New York Times writes about how the recession is causing many people to
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China Invests in its First US Wind Power Projects, Most Parts to be Made Overseas
Here's another first in the world of wind power: The first time the Chinese government has invested in wind farms in the United States. Tang Energy has announced that it has secured $300 million in financing from CATIC
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Palin Says "Thanks, But No Thanks" to Energy Efficiency
Governor Sarah Palin is notorious for not accepting, and then accepting federal funding--who could forget the good ol' bridge to nowhere debacle? Well something similar is happening again: Palin has decided to accept all
