Tag Archive | "Environment"
Flock Eco-Edition has been released and is awesome.
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!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 [...]
Continue reading...Happy Earth Day to everyone - Business Edition
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Earth Day as many if not all of you know by now falls on April 22nd every year. I hope you will take some time out for the environment on Earth Day. Many companies are releasing information on Earth Day about green initiatives and programs that they’re putting in place to lower their [...]
Continue reading...Major automotive manufacturers have gone zero landfill.
Friday, April 18, 2008
GM’s Flint Engine South Plant has become one of the first zero landfill manufacturing facilities in the United States with the help of Goodwill and other partners. The plant has created an initiative to reuse or recycle every bit of waste that is created during the process of manufacturing the engines and other various parts [...]
Continue reading...What keeps me up at night. #1
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Every week or maybe every other week I’ll be posting a more personal blog post about what about the world/environment keeps me up at night. I’ll try my best not to rant for too long and keep it to 1 or 2 shortish subjects. Something that’s really been on my mind lately has been the absolute [...]
Continue reading...Earth Day is almost here.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Earth Day has fallen on April 22nd since 1970 and this year events are planned all over the world. It’s a day to celebrate and to be heard. Walk, bike, row or swim however you get to an Earth Day event have fun and be safe. No matter what your taste as [...]
Continue reading...- Save energy in your home without buying a thing.
- Clorox Green Works gets Sierra Club endorsement
- 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*
- Have a problem with mosquitoes? Build a bat house. (19)
- Have you done anything to go green? (12)
- Going green isn't being marketed very well. (12)
- Save energy in your home without buying a thing. (10)
- Composting turns food waste into rich soil. (10)
- 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.
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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
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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