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Archive for January 2008

January 31st, 2008

Living Green in the City with Garden Girl

I love to find resources for green city living because urban life can be just as green as anywhere else. Garden Girl is a website devoted to Urban Sustainable Living and it’s great!
Patti the Garden Girl has the ultimate green thumb and an amazing collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn about living […]

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January 30th, 2008

Don’t Mess With Texas…or its Big Carbon Footprint

Texas is big and so is the state’s carbon footprint. TIME magazine just reported that Texas is the biggest carbon polluter in the nation and would rank seventh in the world if it was its own country.
What makes this state’s carbon footprint so big? 19 coal-burning power plants, lots o’ refineries and chemical plants, poor […]

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January 29th, 2008

Daily Detox: Working at the Car Wash

When it’s time to wash the winter off of your car consider this: it’s better for the environment if you go to the car wash rather than washing your car at home.
Commercial car washes are required to drain their wastewater properly. This means the runoff from your car - which can contain all sorts of […]

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January 28th, 2008

Starfish Threatens Great Barrier Reef

A few weeks ago I mentioned how millions of tiny crustaceans were eating up a Japanese island. The cause was a rise in ocean temperature that increased the plankton in the water.
Scientists in the Great Barrier Reef have found another change in an ocean ecosystem that is likely the cause of human activities. This time […]

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January 26th, 2008

Lucha Libre Wrestler Fighting for the Environment

The Mexican wrestling tradition of lucha libre pits good guys and bad guys and one star has taken his fight to the environmental ring.
Yes, there’s a new superhero of the seas, a masked lucha libre wrestler known only as El Hijo del Santo or Son of the Saint. With his identity hidden behind a silver […]

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January 25th, 2008

Kid-Friendly Friday: Bioluminescence at Lights Alive!

There are lots of cool creatures deep in the ocean and many are capable of bioluminescence or the ability to glow like fireflies do. Bioluminescence means “living light”.
In the sea, there are lots of animals that make light with chemical reactions. The colors vary and can be seen from violet to red with the most […]

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January 24th, 2008

The Food Revolution: Making Healthy, Environmentally Sound Food Choices

Celsias has a great article on food, health and environment. Our Food, Our World is part of an ongoing series by John Robbins who is author of the book The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World.
While there are many authors and experts who have valuable insight into how […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Organic, Biodegradable Window Garden from Potting Shed Creations

This time of the year is actually my favorite time to scope out gifts because there’s not a lot of pressure. And there are plenty of upcoming springtime holidays to celebrate. Plus, gifts that say “spring is coming” are my favorite kind of present.
This product from Potting Shed Creations is just the kind of thing […]

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January 22nd, 2008

Website Wink: The Ocean Channel

I’m enjoying exploring the ocean over at the Ocean Channel. This site is filled with amazing photography, videos, news and features that make me want to become a marine biologist.
The Ocean Channel is a new-media corporation out of California dedicated to providing high quality, educational, and entertaining ocean programming. It is a portal to […]

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January 21st, 2008

Change the world, Change your coffee

Did you know that coffee is the second most traded commodity next to oil? But there is a severe market inequality that affects the lives of 25 million coffee farmers worldwide. There is a difference between free trade and fair trade and the distinction is that fair trade sustains a fair economy and healthy ecosystems.
The […]

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