I’ve written about parks on Green Living Ideas before, since parks are a key feature of the city that help to keep people living in a much more energy efficient urban environment. Plus, “green living” and “parks” just seem to go together. Peter Harnik has a new book out, Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, that discusses how citizens and cities should plan for parks and how parks can be created in “all-built-out” settings.
The City Parks Blog, a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance, has a great follow-up interview with Harnik on these topics. I thought I’d pull a few good pieces from that to share here (with some additional commentary of my own).
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I’ve always been a fan of Triscuits, both because they taste good and because they’re actually healthy. It’s great that Kraft puts out a cracker with an ingredient list you can understand: Whole wheat, Soybean and/or Palm Oil, Salt. (Of course, you get into the flavored ones and it’s a whole different story). Now I have another reason to appreciate the Triscuit brand: they are sponsoring a Home Farming website that aims to support the growing home-farming movement.
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Puma Steps Into Mobile With Solar Powered Phone
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Scott James.
Puma has decided to lace up their eco-shoes and step with both feet into the smartphone market- and their first offering is an eco-friendly one. The German Puma company, known well for their football gear and ties to old-school hip hop, launched their phone last week in partnership with Sagem Wireless of France. It even has its own website. Key green features will be an integrated solar cell on the back of the phone for charging and a built-in eco-metering function that will display how much energy the user is saving.
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Young Coal Activists Shut Mountaintop Mining for Four Hours
Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
Four protesters in their 20s who succeeded in briefly halting mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia are now in jail on a collective bail amount of $12,000.
They had chained themselves to a piece of mining equipment, and were briefly able to shut down operations of a Massey Energy subsidiary in Western Raleigh County, West Virginia for several hours in hope of bringing attention to the losses sustained if mountaintop removal continues.
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Cancer Prevention Coalition: Perfumes Contain Toxic Ingredients
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
Beyond being annoyed by the overpowering use of fragrances by department stores, magazine, and individual, there is real cause for concern about the safety of perfumes. In fact, the Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC) has issued a warning that public is at risk from the federal government’s lack of regulation and the fragrance industry’s “recklessly irresponsible” behavior.
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