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submitted by Elizabeth for team Green Living 54 weeks 3 days 9 hours 28 minutes ago
The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 6 weeks 3 days 3 hours 12 minutes ago
Building a high-speed rail system would change the way Californians travel. But for high-speed rail to work - as it does in Europe and Asia - Californians will have to change the way they live, and the state will have to change the way it grows.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 44 weeks 4 days 20 hours 53 minutes ago
The U.S. ranks at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations in an analysis conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities.
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submitted by MikeK for team Green Living 64 weeks 3 days 8 hours 5 minutes ago
NO, it's not easy being green, least of all for Hollywood A-listers living in jaw-dropping decadence. Solar panels on a 50,000-square-foot manse in Malibu just don't scream "Live simply!" Ditto hopping onto a private plane to get to the Live Earth concert.
Of course, celebrities don't let...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 21 weeks 3 days 21 minutes ago
When wildlife biologists Greg Massa and Raquel Krach returned to the United States in 1997 after five years in Costa Rica, they hoped to live a lifestyle that matched their ideals.
They moved to the Northern California rice farm that had been in the Massa family for...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 57 weeks 6 days 43 minutes ago
Berkeley is set to become the first city in the nation to help thousands of its residents generate solar power without having to put money up front - attempting to surmount one of the biggest hurdles for people who don't have enough cash to go green.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 23 weeks 3 days 23 hours 47 minutes ago
For the high-profile crowd that turned out to celebrate a new home in Venice, Calif., the attraction wasn’t just the company and the architectural detail. The house boasted the builders’ equivalent of a three-star Michelin rating: a LEED platinum certificate.
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 13 weeks 4 days 8 hours 44 minutes ago
In the backyard of a house in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, seven high school kids balance themselves carefully in the boughs of a robust apple tree, throwing down ripe fruit to a small ground squad.
Once the tree is stripped, the crew weighs the bags and announces the...(more)
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submitted by Adam for team Green Living 50 weeks 20 hours 44 minutes ago
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. went surfing Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. utility to buy electricity that's generated by the tumult of the sea.
The San Francisco-based company, which earlier this year proposed a test facility for producing power from ocean waves, said the electricity in its...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 28 weeks 1 day 14 hours 27 minutes ago
Japan may be at the cutting edge of green technologies, but its capital has the least environmentally conscious residents of eight of the world's richest cities, a poll showed.
More than four in 10 Tokyo residents -- 41.6 percent -- said they "don't want to sacrifice a...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 20 weeks 4 days 6 hours 45 minutes ago
San Franciscans will be dancing in the streets - literally- after Mayor Gavin Newsom's office obtained the necessary permits this week to shut down 6 miles of thoroughfare during two Sundays this summer and turn the pavement into a party zone.
Starting in the Bayview, stretching past...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 21 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago
Rita Smith curled up alone in her garage office, crying. Minutes before, a laboratory employee had given her the news over the phone: Her test results weren't good, and she should see her doctor. Quickly.
It was 2005. For years, Smith had been embroiled in a battle...(more)
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