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  • Sesame Street Has Always Been Green

    Sesame Street Has Always Been Green
    Elizabeth Fournier

    When my brother and I were five and six, we had a kinship with two rubber puppets. Bert and Ernies likenesses were firmly affixed to our left hands for as much as I can recall, their striped shirts flowing down to our bony, prepubescent elbows. My brothers puppet/role model/nerdy twin, Bert, had a uni-brow crafted into the model of its head, and my sassy Ernie had a sprout of hair that fri...

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  • Simple Solutions to the E-Waste Problem

    Simple Solutions to the E-Waste Problem
    Michelle Kay

    Its easy to get excited about getting new gadgets, but we rarely give an afterthought to what happens to our old laptops or cell phones after we put them out on the curb. Some of us might be more responsible and bring them to the nearest recycling facility for proper disposal, but the fact of the matter is e-waste @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, ...

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  • Trade CDs, DVDs, Games, Books with Swap.com

    Trade CDs, DVDs, Games, Books with Swap.com
    Cara Smusiak

    A good swap is a wonderful thing. You save money, get rid of things you no longer use, acquire something you can use, and help the planet by reducing the need for new products and preventing items from ending up in the waste stream. And if there arent a lot of swaps in your area, Swap.com is a fantastic option. Swap.com has taken the concept of the local swap and magnified the scope so tha...

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  • Website Teaches Consumers to Spot Greenwashing

    Website Teaches Consumers to Spot Greenwashing
    Cara Smusiak

    Companies have gone to great lengths to appear green, even if they arent. Greenwashing is common, and its not always easy for consumers to figure out if a product is truly eco-friendly. Enter the GreenwashingIndex.com, a website that helps consumers learn how to separate the truly green companies from the greenwashers. A joint venture between EnviroMedia Social Marketing and the University ...

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  • FutureMark's High-Quality Recycled Paper

    FutureMark's High-Quality Recycled Paper
    Naturally Savvy

    We all have our favorite magazines. For some its Vogue, for others, Mother Jones. But eco-aware readers often struggle with a conscience that tells us that theres a lot of wasted paper in the media industry. And most of the paper that magazines use is predominantly virginmeaning it has a very low recycled content (if any at all). And FSC-certified sounds good on paper, but it takes a few years ...

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  • Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral

    Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral
    Cara Smusiak

    Have you ever thought about the environmental impact of your blog? Do you wonder how you can make your blog carbon neutral without spending a bundle? Its easier than you may think, and it will cost you nothing but a few minutes of your time. Make It Green!, a German organization is working with the Arbor Day Foundation in the United States to plant trees that will help you make your blog ca...

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  • Use Social Networking to Share Green Ideas

    Use Social Networking to Share Green Ideas
    Naturally Savvy

    It's a small world, and it can seem like technology is making it smaller ever day. Social networking enables us to be interconnected in ways we have never before been, reconnecting old friends, revealing mutual friends and acquaintances, and bringing strangers with common interests together. Not only does social networking make staying connected easier, it also presents great opportunities f...

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  • Read Green: Join David Suzuki's Book Club

    Read Green: Join David Suzuki's Book Club
    Cara Smusiak

    Have you been meaning to read more books about the environment, but just aren't motivated? Well, the answer to your problem might be the David Suzuki Foundation Book Club. David Suzuki, the co-founder of the foundation, is a household name in Canada. He's been championing environmental protection for decades, and he with as a geneticist with a BA in biology and a PhD in zoology, he has ...

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  • Scientist Explains How Research Becomes News

    Scientist Explains How Research Becomes News
    Naturally Savvy

    It's easy to get lost in all the climate change headlines. Study after study tells us some new finding supports climate change, but it can be difficult to put one tiny piece of the puzzle into context, and confusion among the general public is all too common. In a recent TED talk, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, shed some light on the process ...

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  • Boho: The Little Green Magazine That Could?

    Boho: The Little Green Magazine That Could?
    Cara Smusiak

    It hasn't been a great couple of years for magazines. Venerable brands like Gourmet and Blender folded in 2009, and despite widespread love for all things green, even eco mags haven't been able to weather the storm all that well. Plenty closed up shop early in 2009, and though Organic Beauty looked promising when it launched nearly a year ago, it never really got off the ground. But a sm...

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