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• Goodbye Old Site, Hello Awesome New One

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  Back in early 2008 I quietly panicked trying to come up with a name for my new blog or "column" as I told people of a certain age. How about Super Duper Sustainable something-or-other? With the deadline closing in, Super Duper Sustainable Tech Stuff it was. Now, fortunately, its time to shed the old unwieldy blog ...
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• Building a Better Mosquito Trap

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  UC Davis scientists who have been sussing out mosquitoes’ sniffers have made a discovery that could lead to really killer bug traps. Chemical ecologists Walter Leal and Zain Syed identified a chemical called nonanal in humans—and, crucially, birds—that serves as a signal for the Culex species of mosquito. ...
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• Supersurface Could Shrink Power Plants

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  Sounds trippy, but its true: mushrooms and lotus leaves are the inspiration for a superhydrophobic surface created by Duke University scientists that has the potential to make power plants super-efficient. "In power plants, the majority of the space is taken up by bulky condensers," says Chuan-Hua Chen , assistant ...
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• Thumbs Up to Kashless and RecycleBank

  
  Green and Clean Mom — Authority: 118
  I almost never read a press release and post it but after I read the following information I realized that to summarize all of this would be crazy and I love the cause, idea and promoting reuse! Check it out….Beginning yesterday, post or pick up any quality second-hand item on Kashless.org, and earn Points that ...
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• Scaling Up Saharan Solar

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  The idea has been thrown around for a while: Lets put a bunch of mirrors--the most ever!--in the desert to provide massive amounts of electricity to faraway places. A newly-formalized consortium is going to do just that, in the Sahara Desert. Twelve European businesses that form the Desertec Industrial Initiative ...
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• Traffic Control for Turtles

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  Scientists have been tagging turtles for a little while to see where they go, but a new combined effort could mean fewer turtle tragedies in the open water. Juvenile loggerhead turtles, which are a threatened species, can unintentionally become bycatch on fishing vessels. In the fall, sometimes they enter water thats ...
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• Cant hurt to revisit

  
  Junkk Male RE:View — Authority: 134
  Simple, painless steps cut carbon and save money, a new study shows And such as here great places to do it. Not via endless multi-million £ awareness box-ticking campaigns from overlapping quangos with too much of our money for the sense they possess.
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• Chills or Cheer: How do you do Halloween?

  
  The BlogCatalog Community Blog — Authority: 130
  It’s Halloween again and most communities are split between those thrilled by the ghostly fear that chills the skin and those who battle hard against the dark, filling the night with the glow of candlelight, sweet treats and happy times. The BlogCatalog community is no different. While many of us are sitting at ...
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• Rounding Out Shelter Design

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  Recently the winner of a shelter design contest organized by the Guggenheim Museum and Googles 3-D modeling arm SketchUp was announced--a Danish tidal sea space . But a finalists garbage-transportation shelter really captured my imagination. The Design It: Shelter Competition asked entrants to design simple ...
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• Would we miss KFC if it grilled its last chicken tomorrow?

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 435
  KFC is promoting the crap out of its grilled and fried chicken (5,000 US stores to soon give it away for free) but a restaurant analyst (Larry) recently said KFC’s latest performance report was disappointing. I thought, will we miss it when it’s gone? The majority of the bones in my body (82%, incl. the little ...
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• Happy Green Halloween!

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 508
  Halloween is days away and for sure, kids are dreaming of those sweets and treats which they normally get every year. But since we are in the transition towards shifting to an eco-friendly world, perhaps we can apply candies and sweets to the mix. Why not give green candy (not just the color!) which make use of ...
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• Halloween: Go Green for Halloween

  
  Grandmother Poems and Grandfather Poems: Poems and Things To Do With Grandchildren — Authority: 119
  The Green Year, by Jodi Helmer...for every day of the year, there is a simple, inexpensive activity that will help us make important changes...easy green ways we can help the environment in preparation for Halloween. Here is a brief listing of those green Halloween ideas...
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• Eco-Crazed? 10 Odd Green Ideas

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 612
  Strangeness abounds this Halloween season. In the fields of green, ideas are sprouting up in all directions. We all want to do our part for the environment, but how far should we go?Blisstree.com recently highlighted a Time Magazine article that compiled one of the oddest green lists I’ve ever seen.In the Halloween ...
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• Ideas, with luck, assessed well and acted upon

  
  Junkk Male RE:View — Authority: 134
  Overwhelming Response: GreenGov Ideas Pour Into White House Heres that number again..  Greengov Challenge On top of the release of the US zipcode data, this is significant. Darn it, I wish I could edit and/or extend my now full label list
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• Eastside Green Drinks hosted by Architechtronics

  
  Seattle Greendrinks - Convening and growing Seattle's environmental community since 2003. — Authority: 134
  Event Date:  11/19/2009 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm Event Location:  Architechtronics 8804 122nd Avenue NE Kirkland , WA , 98033 United States See map: Google Maps Join us for Eastside Green Drinks at the ...
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• Brad Pitt Mulls Floating House Concept

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 508
  The “Floating House” idea came from actor Brad Pitt during the post-Katrina New Orleans disaster. And now that the Philippines seems to be technically in the same boat, these floating houses may very well be suited. Pitt and his Make It Right (MIR) foundation are building these floating houses made from ...
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• Any librarians blogging about green ideas?

  
  Going Green @your library — Authority: 113
  I’m wondering who I havent yet stumbled upon in library land who is blogging, or using twitter, nings, SL  or other 2.0 tools to discuss, inform or communicate on green and sustainable library topics?  Does your library have an active green committee with blog? Are there any statewide green library committees with ...
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• German Solar Cube House Wins DC Decathlon

  
  Discovery News: Sustainable — Authority: 414
  On the final, rainy, day of judging at the fourth Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, I found myself busting a move with the German team in their solar house. Maybe that was what pushed them over the top. Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that Team Germany from Technische UniversitätDarmstadt had won ...
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• Reduce Landfill and Support Charities with JumbleAID

  
  BeMoreEco — Authority: 113
  JumbleAID is a new ‘free to use’ fundraising website that enables anyone with an unwanted item to find a new home for it, thus keeping it out of landfill, and in the process converting it into valuable funds for their chosen charity. It was born out of frustration with the throwaway society and a genuine wish to ...
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• DIY Winter Herb Garden

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 508
  Here is something decorative for the home. The Winter Herb Garden makes it possible to enjoy herbs all year long and are actually grown organically. This is actually a do it yourself process where you gather the materials needed such as: Open pollienated heirloom seeds Organic Compost Crushed Egg Shells Cooled ...
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