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Entries from April 2008

Inspirational video: Ernest Madu

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · GreenTech

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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 [...]

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Dining green in Austin, Texas.

April 29th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Environment, Farmers Market, Going Green

Austin, the capital of Texas, is said to be one of the most interesting places to live in Texas. Most of the citizens of Austin are quite proud of the weird quirkiness of the town that gives it the charm it so deserves. Green living in Austin is pretty easy to do with [...]

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Norway using green living to rehabilitate prisoners

April 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

I hope you take the time to watch the video above it is a great look into a successful program going on in Norway to reconnect inmates with life and respect. The prison governor is a very intelligent man and realized if you give the prisoners a good way to earn respect and treat [...]

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Friday night eco-week roundup

April 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Environment, GreenTech, Transportation

Green Living:
Anna at Green Talk posted a great article on using organic mechanic potting soil which is all organic material like worm poop and rich compost soil.
A. Caleb runs Environmentastic introduced a guest poster named Joe Bauer who’s an environmentalist and really into wildflowers. He’s posted a great article about wildflowers in the [...]

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Flock Eco-Edition has been released and is awesome.

April 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Environment, GreenTech

The other day I wrote a post about Flock Eco-Edition being released on Earth Day and then on Earth Day I wrote that it had been released . Why am I talking about it again? Because I have been using it now for all my blogging and topic research since Tuesday 12:08am CST and I [...]

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