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Climate Counts Back-2-Cool Campaign
Posted on Aug 12, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.
It won’t be long before we’ll start seeing Back-2-School advertisements again. Back-2-School campaigns seem like relatively harmless advertising campaigns, right? Maybe not. Back-2-School season actually creates more revenue for the US’ top 100 companies than any other time of year other than the holiday shopping season. And, as with all advertising campaigns, Back-2-School advertising campaigns try to get you to buy stuff you don’t need. The amount of wasteful, polluting consumerism that occurs during Back-2-School season is surely quite significant, and even more so if you aren’t buying green products from green companies.
If you are interested in lightening your impact on the planet when the Back-2-School campaigns kick in, leading environmental organization Climate Counts has launched a great Back-2-Cool campaign to help you do so.
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Forests Killed From Bark Beetle Infestation – What Can We Do?
Posted on Apr 05, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
Because a wide swathe of the US and Canadian pine forest is currently dying prematurely due to ever increasing Mountain Pine Bark Beetle infestation – all this dead wood will need to be harvested or it will become fuel for wildfire.
At this point, our pine forest is an innocent-bystander victim of 20th century climate change. By warming the beetle’s habitat just those first few degrees, we humans have already unleashed an unstoppable force that kills pine forests, munching through whole states from Colorado to Montana, and on through British Columbia in Canada.
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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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GTR: 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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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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