Archive | March, 2008
Kansas governor vetoes bill for two coal power plants
Care about green/social issues? Want to stay on top of the green news about technology and things? Subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Gov. Kathleen Sebelius stood up for the environment and vetoed a bill that would have allowed Sunflower Electric Power Corp to add two 700 megawatt power plants to its [...]
Continue reading...Green vehicles I hope to see soon
22. March 2008
In the past the ability to find a stylish green vehicle has not been so easy for us especially in the US. You had a choice of a Prius or a Honda Civic and a few standard vehicles that got a hybrid thrown into them, but didn’t seem to get the MPG that the Prius [...]
Continue reading...David Eggers TED 2008 wish
21. March 2008
The folks at TED are busy getting video from previous years up online while working on the video from this years conference. They’re doing a great job and just the other day posted this video which introduced me to David Eggers. I felt absolutely inspired by his talk at TED and by him as a [...]
Continue reading...Progressive Automotive X Prize competition $10,000,000 prize purse
20. March 2008
X-Prize Foundation and Progressive Insurance have teamed up to create a new program aptly named Progressive Automotive X Prize. The Progressive Automotive X Prize is a competition to create the next generation, super fuel efficient vehicle. It is open to teams all around the world who will compete to create a vehicle that gets the [...]
Continue reading...USPS launches a free mail-in recycling program
19. March 2008
A new free and green recycling program has been created by the USPS and a partnership with Clover Technologies Group. Clover was chosen because of its “zero waste to landfill” policy which means it does everything it can to prevent contributing any material to the nations landfills. The pilot program is currently in effect for [...]
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- Inspiring Video: Janine Benyus on 12 Sustainable Design Ideas
- Beautiful biodegradable dishes made of pressed leaves
- It's time to be counted in the fight to stop climate change!
- Some of my favorite Green Blogs.
- Virgin America gives its customers the option to carbon offset
- Guilott Realty owner being threatened with arrest for being green
- GE creates a CFL bulb shaped like an incandecent
- Top Gear got their hands on a Tesla Roadster *UPDATED*
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- Going green isn't being marketed very well. (12)
- Save energy in your home without buying a thing. (10)
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- Interview: Justin Brown of FGX on shipping greener (9)
- Dining green in Austin, Texas. (9)
- Take advantage of the Spring throw a green party! (8)
- Honda releases first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (7)
- Dell cleans up its energy. (6)
- I’ve got a green New Years resolution. Do you?
- Guilott Realty owner being threatened with arrest for being green
- Top Gear got their hands on a Tesla Roadster *UPDATED*
- GE creates a CFL bulb shaped like an incandecent
- Beautiful biodegradable dishes made of pressed leaves
- It’s time to be counted in the fight to stop climate change!
- IMOrganic.com sent me a coupon to share with you
- Ted Talks: Andy Hobsbawm shows off a Green Ad
- Virgin America gives its customers the option to carbon offset
- Green things I learned last week.
Latest Videos
This quick little ad shared by Andy Hobsbawm who is the European chair of Agency.com gets a point across. It’s pretty funny and enjoyable check it out.
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This short video(4.5 minutes) is from the TED2008 conference and gives us an amazing albeit scary look at how absolutely full of crap our current news media is. Take a look I think you’ll be quite surprised as I was.
Those of you who are thinking “Well, HA! Jason I get my news from Google” or some other online news outlet you’re gonna love the last minute or so of this video. Basically the whole premise boils down to it is cheaper to cover Britney Spears then put news headquarters in third world countries. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve never knew how powerful mushrooms were until this video by Paul Stamets at TED 2008. I mean I’ve heard they’ve found that some mushrooms or even some bacteria will eat away nuclear waste, but besides that these life forms can actually help reverse some of the damage we’ve done to the planet. They’ve actually got a lot more to do with life in the forest then we previously knew and with that knowledge I think regeneration can happen a lot faster and easier then before.
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Jay Leno’s green renovation of his garage has come a long way. He’s added some new parts washers, replaced some aerosol cans and big solar array. Leno even talks about adding more solar panels even though he generates more power then the garage needs to operate during the day.
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Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean and has built the institute with open standards, smart design and great technical choices. They run the Heart Institute at 1/10th the cost of what similar facilities run in the United States and best of all they don’t turn anyone away. Dr. Madu welcomes those at TED and I’m sure anyone watching with the means to follow him to Africa to continue building facilities like these. Read the rest of this entry »
- Ted Talks: Andy Hobsbawm shows off a Green Ad
- Inspiring Video: Janine Benyus on 12 Sustainable Design Ideas
- A look at just how inane our news media is.
- Inspiring video: Paul Stamets on how mushrooms could help save the earth.
- Jay Leno’s green garage
- Ernest Madu talks about the Heart Institute of the Caribbean
24. March 2008
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