Posts in 'Eco Home Living'
Community Solar Gardens Help Renters Go Green, but Solar Companies are Concerned
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
If you live rent an apartment, own a condominium, live in a shady neighborhood, or simply don’t want solar panels on your roof, residents of Colorado have a solution: community solar gardens. What’s a community solar garden? It’s a unique idea to allow residents to purchase a share of a large solar array that would give them credit on their utility bill and qualify for rebates.
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Simple, Delicious, and Natural Cooking with Mariel Hemingway
Posted on Feb 18, 2010 by Sean Daily.
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GreenTalk radio host Sean Daily talks with film and TV actress, author, and natural living advocate Mariel Hemingway about her new book and website Mariel’s Kitchen. She created Mariel’s Kitchen™ in hopes of defining a new awareness for better health choices. The concept is the culmination of years Mariel studying diet, nutrition and medicine – both traditional and integrated methods. By utilizing a network of experts in their fields, she can now offer choices, a breadth of products and lifestyle suggestions from an important centerpiece in her life — her “kitchen.” She believes that the choices we make, the information we seek and the food we eat are integral to our well-being and creating a healthier body and mind allows us to do more and live a longer, more vibrant and meaningful life.
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Sourcing Sustainable Consumer and Office Products with BuyGreen
Posted on Jan 07, 2010 by Sean Daily.
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GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks about buying products that are “better for you and better for the planet” with Doug Farquar, co-founder and CEO of BuyGreen. Doug helped to create the site in response to his own search for earth-friendly products. The goal of BuyGreen is to provide the best possible buying experience by offering a wide range of products, the tools needed to understand why a product qualifies as ‘green’, and superior customer service. You can also find BuyGreen on Twitter.
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Cairo Slums Benefit From Homemade, Recycled Green Technology
Posted on Jan 05, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
Alternative energy and green living are often criticized as being only accessible to well-off individuals in developed nations. Out of necessity, poor Egyptians have become a “model of clean energy living”. Thanks to Solar CITIES (Connecting Community Catalysts and Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Systems), co-founded by UCLA PhD candidate T.H. Culhane, impoverished residents of Cairo are building and living with green technology made from recycled materials.
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Google Earth Engine Counts Trees in the World’s Forests
Posted on Dec 22, 2009 by Scott James.
Brian McClen, VP of Engineering for Google Geo Group, unveiled a new program called Google Earth Engine during a Copenhagen event hosted by Avoided Deforestation Partners. Earth Engine, powered by Google, is “a computational platform for global-scale analysis of satellite imagery,” creating a large-scale storage destination for satellite and other data that tracks the status of the world’s forests. Simply put, it will help the world know where forests are being preserved and where they are being cut down.
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