Save Money and the environment in style with handmade reuseable sandwich bags. Several sellers on Etsy (a community of sellers of hand-crafted items), offer attractive reusable sandwich bags like this at reasonable prices. Most with low shipping costs, as well. The bags feature attractive cotton prints and are lined with water-resistant nylon. Bags can be [...]
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Veev is an acai berry vodka, and the first carbon neutral spirit, in the world. The vodka is produced in the United States, in a wind powered distillery, from the not only extremely healthful, but also sustainable, acai berry.
The company donates a dollar per bottle sold, toward ensuring the safe harvest of acai in the [...]
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The jeweler greenCarat/greenKarat offers socially responsible options way for jewelry buyers. The company seeks “ to end destructive gold and diamond mining.”, by producing lovely and unique pieces from 100% post-consumer gold. They also offer a voluntary carbon offset tax, which is only $1.76 on most pieces. If you are about to get engaged, and [...]
Yes, there are energy efficient big screen televisions available, and I have done a lot of the homework for you.
This seemed a perfect time to investigate the options available in big screen TVs and their energy consumption. By now, most of us are well aware that most of the new flat screen televisions are energy hogs. [...]
It will be a green New New Year’s Eve, in New York this year. The big red Coca Cola sign, which has been an iconic part of Times Square, since 1932, is going green. The sign will now be lit by wind power, and will be powered by this green energy, in time for the [...]
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This morning, the Organic Trade Association announced the results of research on the prevalence of organic cotton farming, in the U.S. The results showed a significant increase in the farming of organic cotton, a 9% increase was reported over last years figures, which themselves were higher than the preceding year. Greater public demand for ”green” cotton, [...]
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Clean Coal Technology and It’s Potentially Catastrophic Risks
Although, clean coal technology has yet to prove it’s viability, storage of the fluid CO2, which would result from the process, should raise many concerns. While watching a documentary about the processing and sequestration techniques under development, some concerns arose, for me. As I viewed animations illustrate the process of pumping fluid CO2, beneath the [...]
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