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Who Wants $80 Billion for Alternative Energy?

Posted on May 6, 2009 - Categories: Green News

President Obama is starting out strong, doing many great things for this nation. From helping banks and consumers get back on their feet, to figuring out ways to save the environment and the economy at the same time, he seems to be on top of his game. The most recent addition to this ambitious investment [...]

Sustainable Products at Bargain Prices

Posted on May 3, 2009 - Categories: Green News

Not long ago, the eco-friendly movement and the organic lifestyle were only for those who could afford it. Shopping in the organic section and buying sustainable products meant that shoppers would spend twice as much on groceries and household products, just because of the higher cost of making these products. Stores like K-Mart and Wal-Mart [...]

Happy Earth Day, Everyone!

Posted on April 21, 2009 - Categories: Green News

Earth Day, of course, is more than a symbolic commemoration. It is meant as an inspiration for people to rally around initiatives that will alleviate the state of the environment. It is that day in the year whereby the mere occasion itself is enough to call people to action.

Zelda Killed The Planet – Videogame Consoles And Their Harmful Effects On The Environment

Posted on April 13, 2009 - Categories: Green News

With the Greenpeace report, the console wars transcended a mere battle for better graphics, better game play, and better storyline. It has also become a battle for the title of being the most environment-friendly machine. Sadly, neither the Xbox 360, the Sony Playstation 3, nor the Nintendo Wii can be adjudged the winner. All of them are culpable of environmental crimes.

Wind-Powered Kite Ship Plans To Change The World, One Knot At A Time

Posted on April 12, 2009 - Categories: Green News

Most people think that airplanes produce more CO2 than ships, given the volume of air traffic during any given day. This is incorrect. Airplanes only produce 2.3% of the carbon dioxide pollution on earth. Ships produce 4% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere. Ships are more disastrous to the ecosystem and are a bigger contributor to global warming. The MS Beluga Skysail aims to change things for the better.

So, How Successful Was Earth Hour ’09?

Posted on April 9, 2009 - Categories: Green News

Organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Earth Hour is an annual event that invites countries and cities from all over the world to one hour of non-electrical existence. It is believed that the electricity saved within this hour would provide a big difference in preserving nature’s resplendence, if not its very existence. How fared this year’s event?

No Electricity Required

Posted on September 19, 2008 - Categories: Green Business, Green News, Website News

As you will soon learn I am not a big backer of all things electric being the solution to our problems.  I think a solar water heater is a more elegant roof top addition than a solar panel for instance.  Along that same design principle I love this hot tub that just showed up on [...]

Get Paid to Recycle your USED Eletronic Goods

Posted on October 29, 2007 - Categories: Green News

Since I have been receiving some interesting about recycling programs such as swaptree and second rotation I decided to talk about a new one Green Sight. Green Sight solves the problem of recycling old electronic good as well as created a program for retailers. To my amazement, Costco has joined up and you can not [...]

Swaptree

Posted on October 26, 2007 - Categories: Green Business, Green News

I love hearing from other green blogs as well as stories/articles that are current or up and coming. Please feel free to submit any stories via our contact page. Thanks again for all of those who submit stories! I recently received this story and wanted to post it up. This stories comes from the co-founder [...]

Second Rotation

Posted on October 24, 2007 - Categories: Green News

Just received a great article from Doug Fraim, Thanks! This is especially great because I have so many electronic devices that I need to properly recycle. Today a company called Second Rotation announced a comprehensive service designed to give people an easy way to recycle unwanted items, be it an iPod, an xBox or an [...]

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