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Eco City World Summit 2008 Presentations Available To Watch…

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Who doesn’t want to live in an eco-city? I can’t imagine why we all wouldn’t. A fascinating topic, eco-cities, and I can’t say I had as much time as I wanted to see all the workshops I wanted to at this year’s Eco City World Summit 2008…but it was really cool to spend [...]

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Carbon Sciences Builds A Compelling Case for Carbon Transformation – - Now.

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I have to admit that I’m not convinced that carbon trading is that compelling to me. Perhaps there’s something I’m just not getting about the whole thing. But neither am I convinced that the geological sequestration of carbon is ideal, either. That just doesn’t make much sense in my book. [...]

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Vertical Farming

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The imagery here alone is really cool to look at, not to mention the idea itself.

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Time’s Top 15 Green Websites

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

As always, there’s more to read, more to learn, and never enough time to go through everything that comes into one’s inbox, it seems. This, however, is worth checking out. More here.

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18 Governors Call for Federal-State Climate Change Partnership w/Signing of Governors’ Declaration on Climate Change

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Climatewire, by Debra Kahn – NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Governors from 18 states representing more than half of both the country’s population and its greenhouse gas emissions signed a statement Friday asserting their desire to partner with the federal government in capping emissions.
The question of what to do with the existing state programs to combat [...]

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Fortune Posts “11 Great Green Ideas”

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

All cool stuff. More here.

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Al Gore’s Recent Presentation At TED – filmed in March, posted this month

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243.
Well worth the watch, and since I’m not in the office tomorrow – consider this my post for Friday.
Hope everyone has a great weekend…

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Pangea Day May 10, 2008 – Not To Be Missed

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

About Pangea Day
In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish. Watch [...]

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C2L Development Center Update: Carbon to Liquids (C2L) Development Center is Commissioning a Unique Municipal Solid Waste Management System in May

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Have you ever thought about how to solve the municipal solid waste issue? — The use of land fills – landfills, which contaminate groundwater? The elimination of methane emissions that come from municipal solid waste – dumps, landfills, and such?
Well, there is one organization I’ve found that is doing some really interesting work in [...]

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On Sustainable Packaging…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Well, we’re back from Yosemite, and quite frankly, I could have stayed, but it’s back to the grind.
I wanted to shift attention to someone else’s blog tonight, because I am in the midst of working on a couple of other blog posts to come, am in the middle of making dinner, and wanted [...]

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Sustainable Towers in Malaysia

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Jon and I are leaving for Yosemite later this week, so I’m doing my brain dump for the week tonight while I’ve got the time. My apologies to those of you who will wonder why you received several email posts today from me. I need to figure out how to get my site [...]

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TheFindGreen.com ‘Green Shopping’ Search Engine

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I personally struggle with remembering urls, since new ones seem to bounce around in and out of my days with surprising frequency. So I like that TheFindGreen.com folks have come up with such a practical name…at least I think the name is practical. It seems easy enough to [...]

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UK Finds 15 Possible Sites for Eco-Towns

Monday, April 7th, 2008

By REGAN McTARSNEY, Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) – The British government selected 15 possible locations Thursday for its ambitious plans to build 10 new low-energy, carbon-neutral towns entirely from recycled materials.
The so-called “eco-towns,” a pet project of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, will be built from scratch and equipped with their own shops, schools and transportation [...]

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National Geographic Looks At The Human Footprint

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

More here and here.

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18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

From EL today…
18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases
Eighteen states are suing the EPA in an attempt to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling in April that found the EPA has authority to regulate vehicle emissions, AP reports.
The plaintiffs say that the ruling requires the EPA to decide [...]

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