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A Few Reasons to Show Some Love for Bugs
Do a typical search on “insects” on an environmental website and you’ll mostly get results about green options to keep the buggers away. But there are reasons why we should have a little more compassion for our tiny fellow earth-dwellers (even if...
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How to Recycle a Metal Water Bottle
Did you switch to a metal water bottle to cut back on plastic waste or because of the potential health effects of a reusable plastic bottle? No matter how durable the bottle is, you’ll eventually need to dispose of it, and recycling is a...
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A Car So Clean You Could Drink the Exhaust
Mercedes Benz displayed its “car of tomorrow” this week at the US Open in Queens, N.Y. Set to be released in California this November, the new B-Class F-CELL is the first zero-emission vehicle from the luxury dealer. Sascha Sim, head of...
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Friendly Gossip Saves One Community $6.5 Million
It’s probably safe to assume that most of the people living on Molokai, a 260-square-mile isle in the state of Hawaii, know one another — at least that’s what Francois Rogers of the Blue Planet Foundation was counting on. As Greentech...
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California Senate Rejects Plastic Bag Ban Bill
California Bill AB 1998 (commonly referred to as the Plastic Bag Ban Bill) was rejected by the California Senate on Tuesday after it failed to receive the two-third majority vote. It would have been the first state-wide plastic bag ban in the U.S....
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The Revival of the Cardboard Chair
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a cardboard chair that is both comfortable and sturdy! If you’re a devoted Earth911.com reader, doubtless you’ve seen our snarky remarks about our own cardboard chair misadventures last...
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Newspapers Go Digital, Print Goes…On Your Wall?
Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Brasil announced that it will become the first in the country to become 100 percent digital. While it’s a trend American print has already seen – thanks to the iPad and the continued success of online...
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The Week-long ‘No Impact’ Challenge Is On
In November of 2006, self described “guilty liberal,” Colin Beavan, snapped and decided to swear off plastic, go organic, become a bicycle nut, compost, turn off his power and “generally become a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to...
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RFID Bins: The New Recycling Police
The newest trend in curbside recycling is the use of Radio-frequency identification (RFID), a tiny computer chip in the recycling bin that can do everything from weighing the contents inside to tracking which bins are used on a regular basis....
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Legislation Could Give Beauty Industry a Makeover
The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, introduced on July 21, has heightened the buzz recently about federal chemical policy reform. The Act would amend the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1938, which supporters claim includes loopholes in chemical safety...
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