November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm

[In his ongoing but sporadic series Don't Throw That Away!, the Green Cheapskate shows you how to repurpose just about anything, saving money and the environment in the process. Send him your repurposing ideas and challenges, but whatever you do, Don't Throw That Away!]
Since nearly half of all marriages in the U.S. now end in
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Digital downloads are the darlings of the eco-age.
When it comes to books or music, we’re told increasingly that if we get some gizmo and cram it with songs or novels, we can continue blissfully onward through life, content that we are sparing the planet the ravages caused by the production of paper and plastic CD
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
BURNT WOODS, Ore. - Driving through the verdant timberlands of Oregon’s Coast Range, Matt Fehrenbacher pointed out a mountainside where every tree had been clearcut.
“That’s business as usual,” said Fehrenbacher, a forester with The Pacific Forest Trust, a conservation group that manages private forest both to produce lumber and to store carbon as a hedge
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm

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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
As a prologue to the COP 15 in Copenhagen, protesters took to the streets across the country in a national day of climate justice action. From die-ins, to fasts, to streets protests, to locked down acts of civil disobedience, citizens groups called for a halt to new coal-fired plant construction, the abolishment of mountaintop
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 9:23 pm

Inhabitants on the small Danish island of Samso have collaborated to form a social energy revolution. The small Baltic island has become one of the first industrialised places in the world to qualify as being totally energy self-sufficient.
As the location for next month's UN climate change summit, this comes as a huge propaganda win for
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 9:08 pm

Two Men Were beaten in front of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club by a mob of bouncers.. click on the link to see this vicious beaten http://www.waneenterprises.com/news/344
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 4:58 pm
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By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
We sat out “Black Friday” this year. It’s becoming a trend at our house. We focused instead on gathering the family for an activity. In this case, we went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox, which, as Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson fans, we couldn’t miss.
The shopper (Photo: Do the Green Thing.)
Without
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 3:53 pm
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By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
More and more electronics seem to make Americans’ Christmas lists. Unfortunately, many electronics waste energy and run up electric bills, even while you are not using them. So here’s a list of environmentally friendly, yet still savvy, electronic gifts.
HYmini can charge using solar, wind and wall outlets
The HYmini is an all-in-one
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November 30, 2009, Posted by admin at 3:29 pm

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for the forthcoming U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, will serve as the European Commission’s first climate action commissioner beginning next year.
The guard is changing at the European Commission in Brussels where, President Jose Manuel Barroso has named his new 27-member team — including a
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