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This Green Living community of bloggers offers ways to live eco-friendly at home and work, while also offering news on large scale, earth friendly advances being made worldwide. If you would like to participate, please contact: Laura Roach
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Store I Love: Muji
Here’s an example of the Hermes shampoo bottle. Simply, lovely dark green color, square-ish shape. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to stay at the City Club Hotel in NYC when it just opened. This was one of hotelier Jeff Klein’s first properties that celebrated the idea of less-is-more, the idea a hotel could be a pied-a-terre of sorts and not feel like a giant, old convention center many mega-hotels feel like today. One of the amenities I remembered staying there was the liberal use of Hermes bath products in the bathroom.
Daily Danny
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Eve S. Mosher: Eco Art Visualizing Powerful Intentions
Neighborhood signs, for example, recommending “insert___here” suggest the promise of filling in the blanks in altering our communities through proposed insertions like green roofs, bike lines, solar panels, and a local/organic farmer’s stand. 48 Hours of Sao Paolo – Time’s Square, what are we not seeing? ? (proposal, proposal, 2008)
Eco Chic
- Monday, March 8, 2010
Stored vitamins can go off in a short time, a week even
Something that, as far as I am aware, does not happen if you use herbs as your source and store herbs properly dried, for instance, for infusions. The findings could be a serious blow to the vitamin and health supplement industry, which is worth about 600 million GBP a year in Britain and that lobby is already doing damage control. The research shows how vulnerable supplements such as vitamin B and C are to a process called deliquescence. It means that they are badly affected by humidity, which can reach up to 98percent in a bathroom where, for example, someone has just had a lengthy
Green (Living) Review
- Monday, March 8, 2010
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If consumers don’t understand the Smart Grid, can utilities sell it?
Tagged: AMI, demand response events, energy management systems, Facebook, National Grid, smart grid, Social Media campaign examples, Town Hall events, Twitter, Utility Scale deployment
...Tags: Tags: Control Green Electronics Technology Twitter smart grid AMI National Grid Utility Scale deployment energy management systems demand response events Facebook Social Media campaign examples Town Hall event I believe the Smart Grid is an eventuality. It may come with or without fanfare, it may be accepted begrudgingly or met with whole hearted resistance,
Green Life Smart Life
- Friday, September 18, 2009
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Industrial Ecology as Systems Thinking and Practice
Some modes of applying systems thinking include the learning organization, systems dynamics, sociotechnical systems, and the viable system model. In this time of complex and rapid change, systems thinking has immediate, pragmatic value for companies and agencies of any size. We will give an industrial ecology example of the subjective nature of systems definition in the sidebar on steel. This concept often helps to resolve conflicts between conflicting points of view. The following examples illustrate the subjective nature of systems definition. http://www.indigodev.com/Systems.html Industrial ecology is a branch of systems science and systems thinking.
The Green Changemakers
- Monday, November 17, 2008
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New solar panels claim 100% all year round hotwater output
The value of traditional solar panels is limited in many locations – in winter, for example, when there may be only three or four hours of sunshine a day. Ray of Inspiration – Cleverly designed solar panels that work day and night to give the end user 100% of their annual hot water.
Not very many renewable companies can claim to be competitive on both price and quality.
Green Me
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Tips to Avoid CE Greenwashing
Vagueness: Don’t stretch the truth with claims like “all natural” that includes naturally occurring mercury, for example.
CE Pro magazine, a publication specializing in (you guessed it) consumer electronics and the custom installation professionals that sell, install and service them, recently published the “7 Deadly Sins of Greenwashing ”. As “green” has become THE buzz word in recent years, more and more companies are (knowingly or innocently) participating in greenwashing practices: “making false of dubious claims about whether a product of service is green, or how green it
Green Life Smart Life
- Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable Future
This is the '80–20 Challenge,' and this manifesto presents inspiring, real-life examples of how this is starting to happen." Download link: http://changethis.com/49.01.NecessaryRevolution http://changethis.com/pdf/49.01.NecessaryRevolution.pdf Peter Senge and Bryan Smith "The Industrial Era is ending. Its extraordinary successes—advances in literacy, life expectancy, human rights, and technology—have propelled us headlong into a myriad of side effects: food and water shortages, cyclonic destruction, prolonged drought and rising sea levels.
The Green Changemakers
- Thursday, August 7, 2008
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A 'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy,
The 21st century one is going to have to be based on developing the world's natural capital to provide the lasting jobs and wealth that are needed, particularly for the poorest people on the planet” Achim Steiner, UNEP's Executive Director, says for example, that it makes more sense to invest in preserving forests, peatlands and soils, which naturally absorb carbon dioxide, than destroying them and then developing expensive technology to do the job". A 'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy, says UN "Top economists and United Nations leaders are working on a "Green New Deal" to create millions of jobs, revive the world economy, slash poverty and avert environmental disaster, as the financial markets plunge into their deepest crisis since the Great Depression. The ambitious plan – the start of which will be formally launched in London next week - will call on world leaders, including the new US President, to promote a massive redirection of investment away from the speculation that has caused the bursting “financial and
The Green Changemakers
- Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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Why Energy Management in the Home Will Be Mainstream
Additionally, funding for Smart Grid projects are abundant now – between private investment firms pouring millions into different segments of the end-to-end Smart Grid (Foundation capital example link) and U.S. But not every Smart Grid deployment is proving to be a success (see example in Texas of failed trial) – what happens if consumers don’t eventually support and adopt this technology? 2009 is certainly the “ Year of the Smart Grid ”, as dubbed by Greentech Media GTM Research but there are many wondering how exactly Smart Grid technology is going to be adopted where arguably it matters most – the customer’s home.
Green Life Smart Life
- Monday, October 5, 2009
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35 eco-friendly travel tips - travel green!
Be sure to turn of hotel extras – examples: don’t leave the sauna on, the jet spa on, lights in the exercise room on, or exercise equipment. If traveling in summer or winter follow the same energy conservation tips in your hotel that you do at home - for example, shut the curtains, dress for the weather, turn down the AC or heater when you leave the room, and so on. From Travelling the Green Way Planning your eco-vacation… Know that where you visit and stay does make a difference. If you choose an eco-friendly hotel or other destination you’re making a statement
The Green Changemakers
- Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Is Local Food Better?
For example, trains are 10 times more efficient at moving freight, ton for ton, than trucks are. For example, Spain has plenty of the warmth and sunshine that tomatoes crave, but its main horticultural region is relatively arid and is likely to become more drought-prone in the future as a result of global climate change. For example, local-food advocates also emphasize eating seasonal (often meaning field-grown) and less-processed foods. by Sarah DeWeerdt Yes, probably-but not in the way many people think. ( Editor's note from World Watch Institute : The local-food movement has been gaining momentum in developed countries, and in many developing countries as well, in recent years; in the United States alone, sales of locally grown foods, worth about $4 billion in 2002, could reach as much as $7 billion by 2011.
The Green Changemakers
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Green Building Perspectives: ‘g’ Green Design Center
For example, having Marmoleum in the mudroom with our FSC-certified cabinetry enhances the natural beauty of both products, while demonstrating their durability and practicality.
Continuing once again with our Green Building Perspective series, this week Nicole Goldman, owner and founder of the ‘g’ Green Design Center was kind enough to provide us with some answers on their role in the project and green design.
‘g’ Green Design Center is showroom and retail shop dedicated to providing accessible, affordable and stylish green building materials, house wares, fixtures and finishes to help customers make their homes and businesses more healthy, energy-efficient and eco-friendly. ‘g’
Green Life Smart Life
- Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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