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e2, the critically acclaimed PBS series, is entering its 3rd season that’s going to be presented in two parts: e2 design, and e2 transport. As many of you may know, e2 focuses on innovators who want a better quality of life on earth, and many topics deal with the environment first-hand. Brad Pitt has narrated [...]
Read more →Now that everyone’s dropping their old phones for a new iPhone or Blackberry, it’s a good time to remember to recycle your old model. This week, ReCellular, an organization devoted to recycling cell phones, released their Top 10 recycled phones of the year, with the Nokia 6010 taking the first place spot. However, Motorola had [...]
Read more →This new invention by Toronto-based Your Solar Home, Inc. might be just what your house needs for the coming winter months – a solar based, eco friendly way to heat your water, or the rooms in your house. As the diagram on the left shows, the cool inside air is drawn out through a vent [...]
Read more →Next year, the Organic Trade Association is going to try to bring the benefits of buying organic to the forefront of consumers’ minds with a new marketing campaign. Now that the organic industry has grown to be worth roughly $23.6 billion, the OTA sees it as a perfect time to spread the word far and [...]
Read more →A cool article published by LiveScience yesterday highlights some little known lifestyle facts about keeping indoor plants that just might have you greening up your rooms this winter. For example, did you know: plants reduce noise in an area; they produce humidity in an area that helps reduce airborne contaminants like pollen and dust; they [...]
Read more →The Green Burial Council is an organization that finds the current tradition of funerals to be very environmentally unfriendly, and wants to raise awareness about natural burial options. Natural burial options include caskets, shrouds and urns that are non-toxic and biodegradable, as well as an option for no embalmment (to keep the soil around the [...]
Read more →It’s well known that Sony has already partnered with Waste Management in an effort to help its customers recycle their old electronics, but a new program that they announced on Friday is going to take it one step further. Now, anytime you purchase a new Sony TV that’s larger than 32 inches, the in-home delivery [...]
Read more →This year, Sundance Catalog (the catalog that features products available only at Sundance) and its partners have launched a program called Recycle As You Shop that offers its readers an incentive to recycle their magazines, catalogs, brochures, or basically any other paper product that you receive in the mail. If you drop off your magazines [...]
Read more →Since RecycleBank’s launch in many states across the Eastern USA, it’s become a huge success, with people throughout the rest of the country wondering when they can start using the program themselves. RecycleBank has answered their calls and is now going to open its program in Southern, Mid-Western, and Western states as well. To refresh [...]
Read more →A new program being offered up by Citizen Bank under the moniker of Green$ense has some great new incentives to help those of us that are living with the environment in mind save a little money. For example, under the Green$ense program, you get a 10 cent kickback every time you pay without paper, whether [...]
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