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submitted by Elizabeth for team Green Living 53 weeks 3 days 18 hours 33 minutes ago
What is green?
You may know what it means to you, or you may be totally confused by it.
If you attended the recent San Francisco Green Festival, you could not have left without a better notion of the immense possibilities the green movement offers.
"This is the tipping...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 5 weeks 4 days 19 hours 16 minutes ago
California's Air Resources Board on Friday released long-awaited draft rules to clean up big-rig pollution that can aggravate asthma, cancer and heart disease.
The statewide rules, which are scheduled to take effect in 2010, would apply to more than 1 million heavy-duty diesel trucks, many of which...(more)
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submitted by Christopher for team Green Living 66 weeks 2 days 19 hours 22 minutes ago
Los Angeles' water supplies are getting lower. The once-desolate Owens River Valley burst into flower this year because the Department of Water and Power brought less water to the city. Other states are increasing the amount of water they are able to tap from the Colorado...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 14 weeks 4 days 5 hours 6 minutes ago
Ross resident Eric Greenberg played a major role in paving the way for a wind-power development for the Lower Brule Lakota Tribes of South Dakota.
Greenberg, who heads Innovation Investments in San Francisco, coordinated a deal with Iberdola Renewables, a Portland, Ore., wind-power provider that signed an...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Green Living 73 weeks 5 days 6 hours 41 minutes ago
I don't get this -- there are millions of used bikes out there (in other words bikes that already have sunk resource investments) and these jokers in Australia are proposing this wacked-out backpack bike? And what about those wheels? First pothole you hit and you've planted...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 11 weeks 21 hours 17 minutes ago
Eyes rolled at the cabbies' layover lot next to Burbank's Bob Hope Airport when drivers learned about the hybrid taxi rollout.
A taxicab company applying for permission to work in Burbank was promising city officials that all new cabs added to its fleet would have low-emission hybrid...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 57 weeks 5 days 20 hours 43 minutes ago
In recognition of their work to promote environmental sustainability and reduce poverty, the city of Berkeley, a group of UC Berkeley students and a professor received a Global Citizen Award in a ceremony last night.
The award was created by the East Bay United Nations Association, a...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 78 weeks 3 days 5 hours 4 minutes ago
Northern California just endured its driest winter in 20 years. The state's population is growing by half a million people a year. New dams are controversial. And this week, a two-inch endangered fish shut down the pumps at California's largest drinking water source, San Francisco Bay's...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 83 weeks 5 days 16 hours 2 minutes ago
Grist: What work do you do? Smith: I'm a writer and broadcaster on downshifting and sustainable living, and I also put together an awareness campaign called National Downshifting Week, which is this week. NDW is a grassroots awareness campaign, designed to encourage participants to "Slow Down...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 52 weeks 4 days 4 hours 20 minutes ago
The organic red Russian kale from Blue Heron Farm was selling for $1 a bunch. Cherry tomatoes from Full Belly were going for $2 a pint. And Kaki's satsuma tangerines could be had for $2.50 a pound.
If the prices seemed surprisingly low, the venue was even...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Green Living 77 weeks 3 days 7 hours 28 minutes ago
Politics aside, going green in Washington, DC just got a little easier. New American Dream, who is responsible for promoting things like simplifying your life, and a shorter work week to give you more quality of life, set out to put this guide together Summer...(more)
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