Tag: Social Networking - Page 4
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Social Designer: Creating "Goods for the Greater Good"
Entry by JDS Architects, Social Designer website Leveraging the success of their collaborative and socially-conscious design network, Design 21, Felissimo Design House has introduced another social design initiative called Social Designer. It’s an
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Social-Environment Friendly Tourism in Argentina: Anda
Most travel experiences aren't complete without having a taste of local flavor, bonding with a person from the area and exchanging viewpoints about the country or city you're visiting. Now what if you're a devoted environmentalist?
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History of Earth Day in a Nutshell
For anyone in the green movement under 30 in the US, Earth Day has always just...been. It's existed as a day when you head to the park or zoo with your parents for activities that have to do with recycling, gardening, and saving
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Social Network "Ooooby" Connects Locavores & Food Growers
We love the idea behind Ning, a site which allows people to create their own social network for anything — from anime to baking, but including stuff of a more sustainable flavour such as local bartering and skillshare networks to permaculture
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Top Tweets of the Week: Water (Slideshow)
It's amazing the kind of great information Twitterers (or Tweeple...choose your handle) can point you towards in just 140 characters. It's also amazing what a tool like Twitter can do for water activism. There's been some interesting water news going
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Job Hunting the Green Way - Nix the Paper and Beam Your Info
Online social networking is changing the way we do things in our culture. Everything is faster, shorter, electronic. And that means it's also more acceptable to cut out the paper versions of resumes and cover letters. Thanks to the "now" factor that
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Current TV Wants Your Eco Questions TODAY
Current TV is looking for your questions about green issues, and are taking submissions until 3 PM PST today. All you have to do is Tweet a question, and they'll answer them on Current TV. Causecast, Chelsea Green, Earthtweet by Brighter Planet,
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Fembot Helps Research Mating From Bird's Eye View
Researcher Gail Patricelli took a clue from Austin Powers for her latest research. The professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California at Davis is conducting studies which may be
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Tweet-A-Watt Kits Available for Twittering Your Energy Consumption
image by ladyada via Flickr CC Greener Gadgets winner Tweet-A-Watt (@tweetawatt) has announced they have kits available so you can hack your Kill-A-Watt to tweet your energy consumption to your followers. The kits don't include the Kill-A-Watt, but do
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Viv Puts Consumer Power to Positive Effect...It's Like Carrotmob 2.0
San Francisco, center of the CarrotMob phenomenon (which has spread to Europe and beyond), is now the birthplace of a new consumer tool to aid businesses in steps to greening. Brainchild of Arul Velan and Dinesh Thirupvanam, Viv's physical embodiment
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Green Social Networking at CoolTribe
It's pretty easy to find greenies on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, but if you want a community that is specifically geared towards getting green-minded people together, you might want to check out the new website CoolTribe. CoolTribe
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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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Send Online Invitations Through Pingg
Here's a new way to send those paper-free electronic invites to your latest eco-friendly bash, shindig, or hootenanny: Pingg, a free Web 2.0-fortified service that lets you disseminate your party deets via e-mail or SMS/text, as
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"America's Greenest Campus": Green Contest Pays Students Big Green Rewards
College campuses are brimming with chances to go green, from turning off lights to encouraging recycling (students move every year!) to building awareness around global issues. And given the bonds and formative experiences they
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.tel Domain Could Mean Global Online Phone Book
Photo via the Bakersfield Californian No More Business Cards, Phone Books? The new top-level internet domain, .tel, could go a long way in creating a comprehensive online phonebook—and putting an end to tree-hogging hindrances like the Yellow Pages and
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Agriculture Sustainability Metrics Need Work: Can You Help?
How important is sustainable agriculture? It is expected that by 2050 the world's population will need a doubling of agriculture productivity. Can we meet this demand without destroying the systems we depend on for life? Are
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Save The Planet And Win: Save What... Win What? Let's Find Out, Shall We...
Save the Planet and Win is a new website which launched last Friday. It is basically a social network, environmental website, and "Price is Right" all in one. You can participate in this worldwide collective in a variety of
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The First Green Drinks In The Middle East To Say "L'Haim" In Tel Aviv
The running joke among some of my friends is that we’ll need to bring hummus (organic hummus?) to the first Green Drinks meeting in Tel Aviv, happening on December 15th from 8-10pm at Gilda. Israelis, God forbid, can’t be expected to go to a meeting
