Eco minded habitat

Business initiatives

• New leaf paper

  Something this simple can make a difference

• Metafore

  Postive impact

• Berkeley Sustainable-Businesses

  Examples galore

• Renourish

  Graphic design industry

Put your $ where your mouth is..cause a few bucks collectively cause change .. pun intended

• Muse music

  Musicians United to Sustain the Environment (M. U. S. E.)

• French Rabbit

  French rabbit has partnered with American Forests to plant one tree for every 4 French rabbit wines sold.

get the kids involved

• Solar sprint

  The Junior Solar Sprint offers students an opportunity to learn by means of a friendly competition against their peers where students take responsibility for the design, construction and performance of a model solar electric vehicle.

• Green toys

  It's a little cliché but true nonetheless, your children and your children's children will inherit the world that we create today. So, the stuff we give them shouldn't make life any harder on them in the future. If that alone isn't enough, how about

• Eco-kids-Canada

  EcoKids is Earth Day Canada's environmental education program for youth who care about the planet. Since 1994, the EcoKids Program has empowered Canadian youth with environmental knowledge and hands-on activities, and presented this information in fu

• Virtual pond

  Can you populate the pond in such a way that by week 18 the creatures in the pond are still healthy and thriving?

• Water science

  The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools web site! We offer information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.

• zun tunes

  For the younger green peeps

• EPA kid's club

  * A to Z Index

• Kaboose Games

  Learning any way they can...

Lighter footsteps

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Green Options

• Eco Funerals: Weave Your Own Coffin

  Looking for an eco-friendly end to your life?  Forget a pine coffin, weave your own final resting place from willows.  UK based Musgrove Willows is offering a course where you weave your own coffin, which doubles as a “blanket box” while you wait to die.  Except for the fact I want t ...

• Eco-minded Crafts for Kids: The Imagination Fa ...

  When my daughter started preschool last year, my life as a craft collector began. From rock monsters to paper plate people, our family grew by the day. While I always welcomed the creative creatures and inventions into our home, I was disappointed that many of them were adorned with things that ...

• Back to School: Not Buying It

  I feel the consumerism of back to school season like a stiff wind in my face. I’m sending my oldest off to preschool, and after 3 years of not caring what she is wearing except for holidays and birthdays, forgetting to brush her hair for days on end, and rarely buying things new for her, ...

• Swift Enterprises Joins Race for Alternative J ...

  Add another contender to the alternative aviation fuel race: Swift Enterprises. The company, which is based in Indiana, has developed a renewable jet fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae, woodchips, and other feedstocks. Swift’s biofuel currently costs $60 per gallon to produce, ...

• Organic Beauty View :: For Alima, Natural Isn’ ...

  Honestly, “natural” seems to be about a common a word as “green” these days and hands up who besides me is getting tired of the all the rhetoric? Being a natural brand should mean something and that’s exactly the position of Alima Pure. Not content with being &#8216 ...

Organic Passion

• Links

  Health and Wellness Resource Pure Inside Out Content-rich site with information and articles on easy, natural and enjoyable body and mind detox methods to achieve radiant health and optimal well being. Comprehensive Health Directory resources. Enhanced Living - Relaxation music, positive aff ...

• Organic Savings: 12 Foods You Don’t Have To Bu ...

  According to Shoppers' Guide to Pesticides in Produce (by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health), there are twelve foods (out of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories) had the lowest pesticide load wh ...

• Six Easy Ways to Allergy-Proof Your Home

  Allergies are year-round nuisances and if you’re one of the nearly 40 million people who will sneeze and sniffle their way through the next few months, here are a few simple home hints to help keep sneezes at bay: 1. Keep the house cool and dry to reduce the presence of dust mites and mo ...

• Cacao - Beyond Sinful Pleasure

  All real chocolate is made from cacao and eaten in its pure raw form is extremely rich with anti-oxidants and magnesium. Cacao is a natural source of antioxidants - polyphenols, catechin, epicatechin and gallic acid. These antioxidants are essential to deneutralize free radicals and help to prov ...

• Five Reasons Why You Should Eat Garlic

  Garlic has its reputation for its strong taste and aroma and it should be one food that you should be eating every day. Garlic has antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties and clearly, garlic can give you optimal health benefits when eaten fresh. Here is why:

Jetson Green

• PNC Planning D.C.'s First LEED Platinum Office ...

  Within the last couple months, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and Vornado/Charles E. Smith released their shiny new design for what could be Washington D.C.'s first LEED Platinum office...

• Home Wind Power, Eco-rentals, Green Equity Off ...

  How To: Demystifying residential wind power. Businesses find gold in green design. Taking it easy on the planet with eco-rentals. Is prefab housing ready for the primetime? Boston's biggest property...

• Solar Cell Tree Charger, A Home Gadget Worth B ...

  We don't really talk about small gadgetry and knickknacks on this website, but this solar cell tree charger by Vivien Muller is, I think, kind of different. You can use...

• http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jetson_green/~3/MRRmO260qQU/video-margarido.html

  Remember earlier this week when we talked about the Margarido House, you know that posh, modern home that's about to be the first LEED-H Platinum home in Northern California? Well,...

• Modern Sky Hill Townhomes in Atlanta

  Check these urban townhomes out. They're pretty interesting. The design here is part of a development called Sky Hill, a twelve townhome community in Midtown Atlanta. Designed by Kuo Diedrich,...

Daily fuel economy tip

• What is the Fair Value of Oil?

  For much of the past two years, we (meaning most of the world) have been complaining about high oil prices.  As the price per barrel climbed past once unthinkable milestones - $75, $100, $125 and then nearly $150 - the complaints grew louder and louder. Now that the price of a barrel of crude o ...

• Have Falling Gas Prices Affected Your Lifestyle?

  Falling gasoline prices have come as a welcome relief to many families, especially in the midst of the current financial and economic upheaval.  Since the middle of July, the price of gas has fallen from a record high of $4.12 to today’s price of $2.39 per gallon - a decline of nearly 42%. ...

• Where Will Gas Prices Bottom Out?

  Over the past four months, we’ve seen an unprecedented decline in the price of gasoline.  After hitting its record high of $4.12 on July 14, the national average price of gas has fallen over 40%, and now stands at $2.40 per gallon. The last time gas prices were this low was back in March ...

• National Average Gas Price Continues to Fall - ...

  The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline now stands at $2.40 per gallon - a price not seen since early March 2007. Gasoline prices are now down nearly 42% from the record highs set back in mid-July of this year.  Over the past month, the price of gas has fallen by [. ...

• A Big Three Resurgence? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

  The Big 3 American car manufacturers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - used to be the backbone of the American economy.  They were the prototypical blue collar, middle class employers, where a hard day’s work meant putting together a great American product for a good wage and benefits. ...

Safety Issues

• cdc

  Mercury facts ( cfl's)

• Cleaning up Mercury

  Thermometers, thermostats and light bulbs all contain less than 10 grams of mercury.

Dual purpose Gardening

• Living walls

  cool + kewl

• Arbor day

  10 free trees anybody?

• Local harvest

  The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.

• Native seeds

  Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives.We safeguard 2000 varieties of arid-la

• Lawn grasses

  Just the type of grass you have can conserve water..

• Buffalo grass

  case and point

Inside the home

• cfl calculator

  You already know that using compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) will save you money. But exactly how much money are you (or will you be) saving?

• Diy

  How to add fiberglass insulation

• Diy

  How to upgrade your thermostat

• Diy

  44 $ saving tips

• Solar calculator

  The Solar Estimator is meant only to give you an idea of price, savings and system size. The results are based upon many assumptions and the limited data you will enter. An actual site assessment by a qualified Solar Pro will be needed to determine t

• House "off" switch

  It is a switch that allows a user to turn off all non-essential electronic items in their home from a central switch.

• Assess your home

  get specific,the results are pretty accurate for your area.

• This old house

  A t.v show...priceless

• Home appliances

  Easy-to-read guide may help you understand how appliances are rated for efficiency, what the ratings mean and what to look for while shopping for new appliances.

• R values

  If your home was built as few as 10 years ago, it is probably among the more than 46 million US homes that Harvard University says are under-insulated by today's minimum standards. Inadequate insulation is one of the main reasons why the average Amer

• Diy weekend repairs.

  Water proofing the basement

• Solar water heaters

  Everything you need to know within

• Diy

  How to mine heat from a drain

The Energy Blog

• Pickens Mesa Power Orders 1,000 MW of Wind Tur ...

  Per press release, edited slightly:Mesa Power LLP, a company created by T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with General Electric to purchase 667, 1.5 megawatt wind turbines for the worlds largest wind farm, capable of generating 1,000 megawatts, nameplate, of electricity, enough to power more ...

• Worlds Largest, $1.8 Billion, 500 MW, Wind Far ...

  Per Fluor Corporation press release:Fluor Corporation, Dallas, TX, (NYSE: FLR) announced Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to design and construct the 500 megawatt (MW) Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm. The venture is the world's largest offshore w ...

• DuPont To Enter Thin Film Amorphous Silicon Market

  Per DuPont press release:DuPont (NYSE: DD) announced that it will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry. . . . DuPont expects growth in the photovoltaic market to.. ...

• Sungri Claims 5-7 cents per kWh for CSP Solar ...

  Using SUNRGI's propriety technology it is possible to produce large amounts of electricity from solar radiation at a wholesale price of US $0.05 / kWh is the lead headline on SUNGRI's website. The system is called Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics ™ or XCPV™. XCPV efficiently concentrates sunlig ...

• GM Invests in Mascoma

  General Motors Corp. and Mascoma Corp. today announced a strategic relationship to develop cellulosic ethanol focused on Mascoma's single-step biochemical conversion of non-grain biomass into low-carbon alternative fuels to help address increasing energy demand. Mascoma's single-step... [[ ...

The Green Geek

• Anti-smog buildings: Clean air through archite ...

  A new type of architecture is gaining in popularity, thanks to visionaries such as architect Vincent Callebaut that blend design and technology to create a new definition for the term “green building”. Callebaut’s latest project uses green technologies and systems that are more than just example ...

• Blending sewage with garbage to produce fuel

  A new kind of waste treatment system has been developed by Viridis Waste Control LLC, that holds the potential to improve water quality, reduce landfill usage, and to provide a large supply of renewable fuel. The process is called Septage Bioreactor Landfill technology, and it does something tha ...

• Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ is next step towards paperle ...

  Earlier this week online giant Amazon.com released a digital reader called the Kindle, a device that has great potential to revolutionize the way we read. While ebook readers aren’t new, Amazon’s offering brings several new features to the table. Chief among the green features of thi ...

• Small increase in green spaces can offset temp ...

  Scientists at the University of Manchester have conducted a study looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities, and say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises. The study has calculated that a mere ...

• New aluminum alloy generates hydrogen on-demand

  Jerry Woodall, an engineer from Purdue University, has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water on contact. This process eliminates the need to transport or store hydrogen gas, 2 things that have been major obstacles to achieving the much anticipated hydrogen ...

Ecorazi

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Groovy Green

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No Impact Man

• A moment that reinforces my belief that we hum ...

  What I mean is, if we can come from MLK's time to an African-American taking center stage at the DNC as potential first lady, maybe we can change the way we treat the habitat and each other. What an amazing--and...

• 40 steps on the personal path to green

  A few weeks ago, I asked readers, "If a friend decided they wanted to do something about the environment, how would you tell him or her to start?" So just in case you or a friend wants to start, here...

• Redefining the good life while saving the planet

  I've said this before: it wouldn't be so bad if, while wrecking the planet, we could at least say we were having one hell of a party. But I'm not sure we are. So many of us are working way...

• Who says we need cars and planes for a good life?

  Now that I've finished the draft of my book, we're finally on holiday. What we used to do, before the No Impact project, was fly to France to stay with friends. But the long haul flight made enough carbon emissions...

• Business People: Forget the fallacy of the zer ...

  Zero sum game: A situation or interaction in which one participant's gains result only from another's equivalent losses. Sometimes, we imagine business works that way. But what a sad, sorry way to look at the world. And if we do...