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A Nation of Hitchhikers
Image by Wikimedia As the American Automotive Fabric takes a little "T-Out" from its regularly scheduled programming, we may want to prepare our last bidey-byes to the notion that jumping into a personally-owned powered metal box - gas, electric,
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Let's Take This Charity Drive Viral! Summer of Social Good Kicks Off, Here's How to Get Involved
Want to get involved with pushing social media charitable fundraising to a new level? Well, Mashable has just kicked off the Summer of Social Good to do just that, utilizing the vast reach of Facebook Twitter, Myspace and online media more broadly to
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Open Green Map Launching Globally to Solve Your Eco-Travel Issues
We've been watching the development of Open Green Map for awhile now, and the eco-minded mapping system is finally gearing up for an official world-wide launch on World Environment Day (June 5, in case you forgot). Click through for
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Earthkeepers Facebook Game Challenges Players to Get Eco-Savvy
Timberland and Changents have launched a game on Facebook called Earthkeepers Hero "Mission Possible," which boosts players' green IQ and challenges them to get green offline, too.I'm a little on the fence about
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Twittering for Trees and World Environment Day
Twitter is getting to be a great resource for charities and eco-activism, proven by the success of charity:water's twestival, earthtweet, and tweeting congress. Here's another great chance to use Twitter as a force of good. Plant
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Top Twitterers to Follow: Business and Politics
Find out some of the best Twitterers to follow if you want to stay up on the latest in green business and politics.@BarackObama and @whitehouse Yep, you should probably start out with following the US president on Twitter. Tweets are relatively rare,
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Max Gladwell Storms Green Blogosphere with 10 Ways, and More
In the week that Max Gladwell stormed almost every existing social media site with 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media we are awed by the power and speed of the blogosphere. In the spirit of positive social change here are 4 more fantastic
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Teens' Virtual Yearbook Shakes Up How Teens and Charities Connect
Image via myYearbook myYearbook is a project by brother and sister duo Dave and Catherine Cook. They decided to take the idea of a yearbook digital, shaking up not only the concept of a yearbook, but also in how teens interact with charitable causes. A
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10 (Plus) Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Our children will inherit a world
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Your Facebook Profile Could Get the National Parks Foundation Needed Funding
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 -
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Top Ten Twitterers to Follow for Cars and Transportation
Find out some of the best Twitterers to follow in the realm of transportation, who will keep you updated on the greenest ways of getting from here to there.@GreenCarCongres Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress twitters out the latest blog posts from the
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Top Ten Twitterers to Follow for Green Architecture
Green building is a hot topic these days and there are some great people twittering about the latest in eco-friendly architecture and building design. Check out a few of the people we think you should follow to stay updated. @shedworking There's no end
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WiserEarth Members Create OpenWiser For Ultimate Green Networking
Image via WiserEarth 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
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Green My PC Facebook App Tallies Its Energy Savings
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
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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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Twittering Your Toilet Flushes for Fun or Efficiency
Well, this could be an exercise in water conservation, or it could just be another oddball Twitter hack. Someone has hacked a toilet to tweet each time it's flushed. A little TMI? Without a doubt. But, we'll lean towards water
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10 Top Twitterers in Green Design
Next up on the list of cool Twitterers to follow are those in green design. Click through to find out the top folks to follow to keep up on the latest in eco-friendly style. @Inhabitat; @JillFehr Do we really need an intro to Inhabitat? You can find
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10 Techy Green Twitterers to Follow
Thanks to some inspiration from Mother Nature Network and the roundup of 10 green Twitterers to follow that Shea Gunther pulled together, TreeHugger is starting to round up its favorite Twitterers for each of the various green categories. We're
