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• Its all about hats!

  
  Eco-Friendly Tips — Authority: 532
  Winter has finally come knocking on our doors for many this means changing to warmer clothes and a higher amount to pay for heating bills, however for fashion lovers it means its time for hats! Now a hat is a simple thing, keeps you warm, makes you look stylish and most of all you can [...]
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Cleaning The Beaches Of Wasini Island

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 416
  Friday the 27th of November celebrated the Muslim holiday Ede.  The Mkwiro villagers were busy all day cooking feasts with their families, and to join in the fun we decided to dedicate our day to cleaning up their beautiful mangroves.  Mangroves are home to many critters and we spent much of our clean-up avoiding ...
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• Is Single-Use Plastic on Its Way Out?

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 537
  Did you know that each year Americans throw away around 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags ? Less than 0.6 percent of those are recycled. And that Americans buy 28 billion disposable plastic bottles of water a year ? When we’re on the go it’s easy to forget about the real impact of our choices, especially ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Natural (Fashion) Selection: 9 Top Sustainable Style Stories

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  See more under News & Politics or in the Art & Design category Environmentally friendly fashion? It used to be an oxymoron, but designers are finally catching up to those of us who want to look great while keeping the Earth a happy, healthy place to live. From our friends at Treehugger, here are 10 of ...
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• København innovates with sustainable fashion

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 131
  As the first fashion industry partner of the United Nations Environment Programme since 2003, it always delights us to see the next generation of designers focus on sustainable fashion and corporate social responsibility. On December 2, the Danish fashion industry showed its Innovating Sustainable Fashion ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Let’s Talk Trash: Atayne Athletic Apparel Made from Trash

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 663
  Who knew that a red shirt would become a life-changing event for Jeremy Litchfield? On a hot and humid morning back in 2007, Litchfield went out for a run. Wearing a brand new performance t-shirt, the runner was gearing up for an upcoming marathon. By the time he finished his morning [...]
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Ultimate recyling project: Building a soda bottle classroom

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , Learning , Stories , Guatemala , Mexico , Video , Ecotourism , Central America What happens when Peace Corps volunteers, the non-profit organization, Hug it Forward and a bevvy of school children and teachers in Guatemala recycle plastic bottles and trash? ...
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• Even More Gift Ideas for the New or Expecting Mother!

  
  Green Baby Guide — Authority: 125
  Here’s how you assemble a wonderful gift basket for a new mom. Still need ideas? Here are some more: A Boppy pillow. Both of us managed to raise our babies with very limited baby gear—and we both had Bobby pillows. They make breastfeeding easier by propping the baby up to the right position, easing the strain ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Coca Cola Debuts New Plant Based Packaging

  
  Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com — Authority: 125
  On the whole, major corporations like Coca Cola have a hard time getting any greener than greenwashing. It’s not that they don’t make the effort, necessarily, but the impact of huge scale sales is hard to improve without significant work. Coca Cola, for example, transports their high-fructose blends and bottled ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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