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Jake Gyllenhaal Grabs Some Organix Dog Food
Where would you be without us rounding out your morning with spy shots of Jake Gyllenhaal picking up some “C&P’s Organix Canine Adult Formula Dry Dog Food” from a pet store? The actor hit up a PetCo in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles yesterday. Nice to see Jake feeding his pets green! For those [...][...]
Tao of Change Hosts Carnival of the Green
This week we ring in 2009 with the first Carnival of the year! Carnival of the Green #161 is being hosted by Tao of Change, a blog that shares a boots-on-the-ground view of the way things are changing in our communities and in the world. So head on over to this week's Carnival to find a round up of green news and events from the past week, submitted by other bloggers and green sites. To learn more about Carnival of the Green, where it will be and how to host, please click here to link... [...]
New REVA Electric Car Boosts Range and Speed
Image credit: Autoblog Green Upgrade Makes EV Viable for 95% of All JourneysSo a DIY car powered on walnut shells is not your thing - what about an electric car? While UK electric vehicle retailer NICE may have been hit by the financial crisis, and while the Norwegian electric car manufacturer THINK! ... [...]
Rent-A-Toy Offers Solutions for Frugal Green Parents
We just talked about libraries experiencing a booming business thanks to the recession. And it looks like the crummy economy could lend a helping hand to another business - toy rental. Rent-A-Toy is a new company that helps parents cut cost and clutter by renting out toys. ... [...]
Economic Boost for Eco-Designers
Crafters, artists, and designers with an eco-conscience can do welleconomically too by putting their skills to work this year. Here arethree enviro-oriented design contests that can put some money in yourpocket ? or your derriere in a very sleek chair:DWR Champagne Chair Contest.You have just a couple days left to turn the champagne, cork, and cagefrom your New Year celebrations into a teeny chair. If you win, you?llget ? you guessed it ? a chair, specifically a $1,330 eco-friendlyMorgans Chair[...]
Library Use is Booming Because of Recession
Photo: Flickr The Good Ol' Book is Back in VogueWhen green advocates talk about product service systems (PSS), many might be left scratching their heads (if that's you, check out the linked Wikipedia page). Yet we're all familiar with public libraries, a great example, and when times are harder economically, people increasingly turn to these alternatives to owning stuff. Read on for more.... [...]
Underwriters Laboratories Introducing Green Label
Labels and standards are a touchy and confusing subject. Who sets them? What do they cover? TreeHugger readers have seen companies just calling themselves green, companies inventing their own labels (like SC Johnson), Companies going to third party labels-for-hire to certify what they think is important but may not be, (Like LG Eden and SCS) Labels that cover only one aspect (like Energy Star and Greenguard), and labels that let the manufacturer submit data for cl... [...]
Green Eyes On: Three Green New Year's Resolutions
Photo via FlickrA few weeks before we even rang in the start of 2009, I was already thinking about my New Year's resolutions. And then I started wondering what resolutions other people were making. I heard both the usual: eat better, exercise more...and the unusual: write more thank-you notes, focus on organics, for example. And that last one got me thinking: there are so many people who are still dwelling on the fringe of greener living. What better time to take the plunge than the start ... [...]
Smart Grids Are the Big Thing of 2009
Photo via itchys IBM's Venture Capital Group is keeping an eye on the next big target for the greening of America - and for clean tech investing - and its convinced 2009 will be the year of the smart grid. ... [...]
Watch Mel Gibson Present Award To Green Rubber, Look Uncomfortable
We all know Mel Gibson is a movie star, but the guy’s stage presence is pretty crappy when it comes to speeches. Even a teleprompter can’t save him from reading his way through this award presentation during Global Green’s 2008 Sustainable Design Awards. The 53-year-old actor was on hand to give the 2008 Product Industrial [...][...]
Happy New Face: Green Brushes for the New Year
I don't like change. But sometimes I love it.Over the years, I've spent a small fortune on the actual tools of mytrade, namely, finely crafted makeup brushes. The handles are a verynice (probably endangered) wood, and the brushes are all animal hair(sable, goat, pony).I have two full sets, which I keep in tip-top shape. One set is 10years old. I swore I'd never need to replace them, and I didn't intendto... but here's what happened ? I met someone new.Oh, I'll never get rid of my professional[...]
Green NYE in the Big Apple
I can't walk through Times Square at night without my stomach turning at the kajillions of watts of electricity roped into powering the acres of electronic billboards and neon signs lighting up the place like an amusement-park-meets-Coney Island on steroids. So it was exciting to learn that the city's giant "2009" New Year's Eve sign was powered by renewable energy this year -- human power, to be exact. Almost 140,000 tourists and locals jumped on stationary bikes-cum-generators to pump out the[...]
Is Carbon Offsetting Cheating?
Watch this video to understand the situationAs the saying goes, you can?t have your cake and eat it too. So goes the running argument about whether offsetting your carbon footprint is a useful contribution to our eco-system or just another futile exercise in pretending to be doing good by spending your all-mighty dollar.It?s in the headlines: NewsCorp and Yahoo have been some of the more vocal companies offsetting their footprints. While Yahoo is quite honest that their plan is for the future,[...]
Washing Clothes With Your Bike
This pedal powered washing machine from the Cyclean company allows you to get fit while washing your clothes. Now this is what I call environmentally friendly, the ultimate green washing machine.Visit the Cyclean website for more information[...]
The Irony Of Al Gore
From The Drudge Report:'GREEN' GORE GOES GULFSTREAM: VIDEO CATCHES ECO-WARRIOR ON LUXURY PRIVATE JET Fri Sep 07 2007 07:48:23 ET**Exclusive** As former Vice President Al Gore waits to hear if he has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless effort on climate change, a new video will air this weekend capturing Gore on a fuel-guzzling private jet! FOXNEWS host Sean Hannity is set to unleash the damning video this Sunday night, network sources reveal.[...]
Did You Know ?
?Did you know it takes one 15- to 20-year-old tree to make enough paper for only 700 grocery bags? Bring cloth bags when you shop, and if you forget, put your purchases in as few bags as possible.?Thanks for the tip Groovy Green [...]
Don't We Have Scientists On This?
We have been trying to save the greenback cutthroat trout in Colorado, but the effort hasn't been going so well. Turns out we have been using the wrong fish to do the job. Oy Vey! A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.Advances in genetic testing helped biologist discover the error, which was called a potential black[...]
Which Brands Of Popcorn Do Not Contain Diacetyl
This is the hot question of the moment. It is probably best to assume that all brands currently on the shelf contain diacetyl. Due to the shady food labelling practices espoused by the FDA, we don't really know. The flavor is covered under the 'natural and artificial flavors' heading on the label. Make your own microwave popcorn with the instructions found here or go get yourself a good old-fashioned air popper.[...]