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10 greenest buildings
We’re not talking hunter green, sea-foam green or Wint-o-Green Lifesavers, just to be perfectly clear. This green is gray, black, charcoal, red and any other color found in the rainbow. It’s all about sustainability, LEED certification, environmental honors, structures under construction and a little dreaming for the future. And though the title of “Greenest Building [...]
Fair Trade App
The Fair Trade Finder App Crowdsources Fair Trade-Certified Products Looking for fair trade-certified products, but don’t know where to go and who to ask? Free Trade USA has launched its Fair Trade Finder app for smart phones as well as Facebook, allowing consumers to easily find fair trade-certified products and their purchase locations. The app [...]
MTV’s Real World Going Green
But its 26th season MTV is sending seven strangers to the Southern California coastline for some eco-friendly interpersonal dramz… With the help of several eco-conscious companies, the net has created an environmentally conscious party hang for the RW roomies in La Jolla, San Diego. The newly green housewares include organic bedding, sustainable flooring, energy efficient [...]
Cleaning Up Sinking Concordia Cruise Ship Oil
The Concordia rammed a reef Jan. 13 on the tiny Tuscan island and capsized a few hours later just outside Giglio’s port with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard for a Mediterranean cruise. Experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship to avert a possible environmental catastrophe and the ship is stable enough to [...]
FarmPlate: Search Engine for Local Food Systems
Imagine being able to tailor Google to search specifically for sustainable food suppliers or restaurants and socially-minded companies in your area. That’s pretty much what a new online marketplace, FarmPlate.com, does. It features a searchable directory of more than 40,000 business listings across the country, and you can search by category and by location to [...]
ReUsing Electric Car Batteries
It’s not because a battery pack isn’t good enough for an electric or hybrid car anymore that it should go directly to a recycling plant. There are lots of potential secondary uses for batteries that can still hold more than half of their original charge. T hey could be used to reduce the intermittency problem, [...]
CES 2012: OLPC $100 Solar Powered Tablet
If you hadn’t noticed by now, solar is a big theme at the Consumer Electronics Show. Another one which jumped out in the early announcements to us is an inexpensive laptop developed by a non-profit whose goal is to give children all around the world access to a computer for learning and development. The entity [...]
Solar Powered GreenHouses
There are many examples of small-scale, creative solutions to producing food and renewable energy side-by-side. For example, this solar double-cropping project in North Carolina, or many of the projects funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP). Small-scale energy solutions like these could be even more useful for farmers in [...]
Fair Trade USA Splits From International Fair Trade Organization
As of the beginning of January, Fair Trade USA is no longer part of the world fair trade organization, and has “gone its own way.” Paul Rice, president and CEO, tries to justify this in Triple Pundit, suggesting that by making certain changes, they could double their impact in three years. The most important change [...]
Swedish Building Bike SuperHighways
In Sweden, city planners and the country’s traffic authority are looking into building a four-lane bike superhighway between the university town of Lund and Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest cities and one of its most diverse. Cities like London have invested in protected lanes that they call “bike superhighways,” but this one would be one of the [...]
60 Million Barrels of Waste Water Daily
The biggest output of the U.S. oil and gas industry is not oil or gas but dirty water. Every day, U.S. oil and gas producers bring to the surface 60 million barrels of waste water, with a salt content up to 20 times higher than sea water and laced with hazardous chemicals. For the most [...]
Livia Firth Eco-Dress Golden Globes 2012
What do the cream of the fashion design world’s crop and sustainability have in common? For most award shows, the answer would be a resounding “nothing,” but this year, Colin Firth’s wife, Livia is working with the fashion world’s biggest names to change that. For the third annual year, Firth is holding the Green Carpet [...]
EU Eggs in Free-Range Barns
It’s official: As of January 1, 2012, all eggs in the European Union (EU) are supposed to be hatched by hens kept in free-range barns or “enriched” cages. Happily, the UK has gone the full nine yards and spent £400 million on meeting the new standards. Starting now, cages will have to provide enough space [...]
Asia’s Coal Grew 500% Since 1980
In the fight against global warming and climate destabilization, coal is enemy #1. Not only does it produce more CO2 per unit of energy than other mainstream energy sources, but it’s also a big offender when it comes to smog and mercury pollution. Unfortunately, the slow coal growth in many parts of the world [...]
Hybrid Shark Found off Australian Coast
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change. The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world. This [...]
LED Times Square New Year Ball Drop
New Year’s Eve in New York City is more than just a celebration – it’s a global tradition. However, December 31st, 2011 will carry new significance as the Times Square Ball-the preeminent lighting symbol of New Year’s Eve- helps usher in a new era of energy efficiency in the United States. At 12:01AM on January [...]
Pig Manure Creates Farm Energy
The nearly 9,000 hogs at Loyd Ray Farms in Yadkin County, N.C., produce 400,000 gallons of manure every week. Since the waste had too high a nitrogen content to be used as fertilizer, owner Loyd Bryant used to pump that waste into a local lagoon, where it released methane, ammonia and “an unholy stink”. But [...]
Rainbow Pencil Trees
The life size pencil set was shown as part of an outdoor exhibition at Open Air Art Museum in Latvia. Pohjalainen created the pieces during the Environmental Art workshop on the museum’s grounds. Each day she’d sit in the grass and watch the sun set, and “sharpen” or carve away at the aspen logs, transforming [...]
Solar County Jail in California
As California deals with overcrowding in its state prison system by transferring low-level offenders to county correctional facilities, one municipality has found a way to cut costs without cutting services while also helping the state meet its renewable energy goals. Merced County has recently announced that it has commissioned a 1.4-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) array [...]
LEED Increases Property Value
The results of two recent studies—one carried out by the New Buildings Institute (NBI), the other by CoStar Group—show that green building standards are not only effective, but also escalate property values. The post-occupancy studies, attempted to measure the value of buildings with sustainability features compared to conventional buildings. They also aimed to demonstrate the [...]
Can Hydrogen Fuel Cells Charge iPhones
Sometime in the future, Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad and MacBook might work longer than ever on a smaller and lighter battery pack. How is this possible? By using hydrogen fuel cells, which convert oxygen and hydrogen into water, heat and electricity. The US Patent & Trademark Office has recently published two Apple [...]
Mining Causes Cigarette Smoke Air
When winter comes to Utah and atmospheric conditions trap a soup of pollutants close to the ground, doctors say it turns every resident in the Salt Lake basin into the equivalent of a cigarette smoker. For days or weeks at a time, an inversion layer in which high pressure systems can trap a roughly 1,300-foot-thick [...]
RainTees: Saving Trees with Tees
Rain Tees began by donating school supplies to children living in endangered rainforests and now works with children in need all over the world. Every Rain Tee is handmade in the USA with eco-friendly fabrics and features original artwork created by children living in countries facing environmental destruction, poverty, and little or no access to [...]
BioTrade Butterfly Business
Alas de Colombia, founded in 2001, generates income through sustainable butterfly farming. Alas de Colombia is a refreshing sustainable BioTrade social business that does butterfly farming in order to create income for rural communities. In El Arenillo, Palmira city, Valle del Cauca (a district of Colombia), there are over 300 species of butterflies making it [...]
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