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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 82 weeks 6 days 39 minutes ago
Environmentalism is in the air in San Mateo County, and local cities are rushing to clean up their acts with "green" policies and resolutions.
But one local mayor who considers herself an environmentalist is saying no to the Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, recently signed by San Mateo...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 18 weeks 4 days 5 hours 8 minutes ago
The 1960s - famous for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - are also remembered as the beginning of the green movement, the time when people became aware of the fragility of what the eccentric visionary architect Buckminster Fuller described as "spaceship Earth." The fantastical domes...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 11 weeks 4 days 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Third-party political activist Peter Camejo, a perennial candidate for state and national office who helped pioneer the financial market niche of socially responsible investments, died Saturday. He was 68.
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Green Living 32 weeks 3 days 2 hours 32 minutes ago
It's no longer enough to live a greener life now people are being encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too.
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours 51 minutes ago
Recession or not, shoppers still want to buy products that don't harm the environment. At least, that's what John Melecio has found since opening his Eco Boutique on 18th Street in San Francisco in September.
"I might be optimistic, but we did three times what we expected...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Green Living 64 weeks 6 days 5 hours 9 minutes ago
A nice little piece at HybridCars.com quotes a San Francisco Chronicle article a bit. The money quote? "As Berkeley goes, so -- eventually -- goes the nation...." Go Bears, indeed.
From the story: "The American auto industry will probably be at the tail end of the [hybrid]...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Green Living 80 weeks 6 days 11 hours 11 minutes ago
Dear Umbra, I have a pest problem in my backyard -- specifically, some tiny (but apparently hungry) insect is making lace out of my basil leaves. I do not want to use pesticides for many reasons, not the least of which is that I cook with...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 82 weeks 3 days 23 hours 4 minutes ago
he Marin Municipal Water District will hold a special workshop from 7 to 9:45 p.m. Thursday so people can help shape a plan to control weeds, including possible use of herbicides, on Mt. Tamalpais.
The meeting will be at the Mill Valley Community Center at 180 Camino...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 72 weeks 3 hours 7 minutes ago
Mark Verburg and his wife, Mel, placed newspapers, glass bottles and aluminum cans in their curbside recycling container every week when they lived in Concord six months ago.
Now that they live in unincorporated Cabarrus County, recycling is more difficult, Verburg said.
"If it were someplace quick and...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Green Living 85 weeks 19 hours 53 minutes ago
Satellite images show the Mesopotamian marshes in the 1970s (left) and again in 2000 (right), with densest marsh in dark red. Images courtesy Hassan Partow, UNEP In the arid land of southeastern Iraq, where the Tigris meets the Euphrates, marsh lands are reappearing. The new growth...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 79 weeks 2 days 21 hours 56 minutes ago
A plan by the House to become carbon-neutral by the end of this Congress calls for dropping coal from the fuel mix burned at the Capitol Power Plant to heat and cool House buildings.
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