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Why Fighting Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Is So Stupid - Ecocentric - TIME.comThere's dumb, there's dumber and then there are the House Republicans—nearly all of them—who voted this morning to set the U.S. back on energy efficiency. By a quick voice vote, the House approved an amendment that would prevent funds from a 2012 spending bill to be used to implement federal light bulb standards. The

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What if the Light Bulb Produced More Than Light? | ElisaWood A professor of engineering at Edinburgh University recently demonstrated for the first time to a wide audience his technology that uses common every day lights to transmit data. Harald Haas streamed a video through a desk lamp at Ted Global 2011 at Scotland’s Edinburgh International Conference Center in July. I can hardly wait for

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Come on guys, this is a simple one.

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The Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary

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Garbage to Art Movie An inspiring documentary about turning trash into art. A great summer movie find!  Watch for it."Located just outside Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, Brazil, is the world's largest garbage landfill. Modern artist Vik Muniz works with the so-called catadores, the men and women who pick through the refuse, to create art out of recycled materials. Muniz selects six of the

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Rethink The Food Label | Nutrition. Conversation. Design.Calling all designers, nutritionist and healthy food advocates. Enter by July 1st your redesigned food label.Food labeling has not changed for over 20 years and you can make a difference in helping consumers make educated decisions when purchasing food items. Understandable labeling addressing many of today's health and nutritional concerns

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New Mortgages for Car-Free FamiliesYou've got to love it when you can save money while saving money.

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National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com A clear article about our dwindling seed varieties with an excellent graphic that demonstrates changes over time.

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A Sustainable Supply Chain: Show me the Money – NOW!... The quantitative model was created by the analysis of the three main drivers and their respective impacts on the company’s annual procurement spend, market cap and revenue. Their impact was then compared to the implementation cost of a Sustainable Procurement program. Among the reports key findings: The payback from investing in risk

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This year single stream recycling was introduced in Ann Arbor. I believe the single stream does make recycling easier, my husband loves that he does not have to divide up the recycling into separate containers. Ask the drivers and they say it is a mess back at the MURF or at least it was a lot cleaner when separated. I'm neither for or against, it is just a change. If this increases recycling and

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The sustainability learning center in Toronto, Ontario has a vested interest in advancing businesses and organizations implementation of sustainable applications and the feedback they are getting is positive but a new approach needs to be taken to be fully embraced. This article was posted on Sustainability Learning Center blog by Kathryn Cooper. Global CEOs say “complexity of implementation” is

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Thrift Week sounds great to me and I believe we need to get back to the hard core basics of living within our means and community. I decided to look into Thrift Week and find out what happened to it and led to it's demise. Here's what I found. Thrift week began pre World War 1 in 1961 "National Thrift Week" and sponsored primarily by the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.), the

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What ever happened to Yankee frugality? Straightening bent nails, saving string. Is Thrift Week, a holiday which began on Ben Franklin's birthday even on the calendar anymore? When did it disappear?  "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship," said he. That leak is not so small anymore. We disapproved of frippery, definition according to answers.com Pretentious, showy

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The Story of Stuff  The Book Now Annie Leonard has a full explaination of her journey through "Stuff". An expanded version of much of the work that went on before her 20 minute video "The Story of Stuff" that has been viewed over 10 million times and is translated into multiple languages. Just as easy to read and understand as her videos, I recommend this book to everyone.

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I've been a zip car user for two years now and it is a great way to get a car in a convenient location for a flat fee. If I just need a car for a few hours I walk book online to reserve the car, walk 10 minutes downtown or take the bus, pick up the car, drive and drop the car off when my time is up. Gas, insurance, it's all covered and my time driving the zip car also counts as a driver for

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India Plans Laws on E-waste Management John Ribeiro, IDG News Service  The Indian government plans to enact new rules that makes a producer of electrical and electronic equipment responsible for the collection and appropriate disposal of e-waste generated at the end of life of its products. The draft of the new rules, called the E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2010, was made

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BioTrade Potential for Growth and Sustainability 7 April 2010, Geneva Switzerland  The informal brainstorming session on the BioTrade Potential for Growth and Sustainability brought together a group of experts and negotiators with unique perspectives on biodiversity, trade and intellectual property rights (IPRs) to discuss opportunities and challenges for its advancement in Latin America and the

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1.    Smart Design 2.    Producer Responsibility 3.    Community Investment 4.    End of Taxpayer Subsidies 5.    Local Markets and Jobs 6.    Transparency Introduction: As consumers, when we purchase items, we vote with every dollar we spend. If cheap is all we look for on the price tag then we pay later with our tax dollars cleaning up water, land and air that did not need to be polluted

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If ever anyone wanted to truly understand the complex interrelationship between our consumerism and its true impact on the planet the storyofstuff.org is the first place they need to go. The Story of Stuff written by Annie Leonard is the most comprehensive, personable, straight talking, simple yet all encompassing video and book available today. Annie demonstrates in clear, simple manner the

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 Picture from Worldcentric There is some confusion regarding the labeling of biodegradable vs. compostable, specifically in plastic products and containers. This confusion is misleading customers into believing that biodegradable is a positive and reliable measure where the purchase will have little impact on the planet compared to standard plastics that are landfilled or recycled. I’m going to

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What does that mean? Reduce your purchasing and consumption overall. Ask yourself, Do I really need it? Will I be happier having it? Why am I buying or using this? How many hours do I need to work to pay for this? Precycle. Consider the packaging, life-cycle and end of life use before purchasing. Is it a cradle-to-cradle (resourse to resource) item or a cradle-to-grave (resource to landfill)?

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                                                                                                When nature moves in the direction of least resistance why do we as humans always choose the hardest way forward? Imagine yourself on a sunny summery day at the beach ready to cool yourself off in refreshing water. You do a fast hot sand dance to get to the waters edge to avoid

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A connection is being made today that CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions are a measurement of waste at their very core. If your product is being shipped with a lot of waste in it, that's adding to fuel and shipping costs, which adds to your carbon footprint. ... Nobody in business wants to pay for shipping waste.The Zero Waste movement elevates today's practice of recycling and landfill diversion

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After working in the office for two years with only natural daylighting tubes to light the office, I have to say I'm impressed. I like the bright clean white light that dims slightly when clouds pass overhead and brightens with the sunshine. It keeps me connected to the weather and reminds me that there are other things in the world than my desk and my work. On the sunniest days rainbows dance

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Trash Talk is for business, homes, churches, festivals and events, all of us. Trash Talk is about trash/waste management and what we can do to dramatically reduce our landfill contributions.Zero Waste embodies the cradle-to-cradle concept that all things (including consumer products) mimic nature in the actions from creation to deconstruction back to creation. In nature nothing is wasted, all

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