If you've ever sat around and thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be cool if there was a Zagat-style guide to local green businesses?" then wish no longer concerned citizen, because a small, ambitious grou...
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Entries Tagged as 'Energy'
Greenopia: Eco-Consciousness for the Rest-Of-Us
July 11th, 2008 by Abe Silk
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Body Power
June 30th, 2008 by Jerri Chou
We thought we were the only ones who might look at a club full of people bouncing to Talib Kweli and think "what if you could harness all that booty shaking?" Nope.
Turns out Andrew Charalambous ha...
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Earth Day- Oh How You’ve Changed
April 22nd, 2008 by Jerri Chou
Image by Ian Davenport
Earth Day was alway kind of a mock event as a kid ( full of planting seeds in water bottles, and Captain Planet specials). But the environmental issue has come a long way, an...
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Earth Hour is Your Hour
March 29th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty
Ready to play in the dark? This Saturday (March 29) turn out your lights for one full hour (Earth Hour!) at 8pm (your local time). The point isn't to save on a ton of carbon dioxide e...
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Is Biofuel the Way to Go?
March 17th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty
Biofuel (or Biorganic Fuel) is what it sounds like: fuel derived from organic material. The biofuel you're probably most familiar with is Ethanol. Ethanol is alcohol (though probably not something...
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Green Freedom for All
February 22nd, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty
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Two scientists, F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have come up with an idea that could potentially solve the emission problems caused by gas guzzling...
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Play Pumps
February 13th, 2008 by Jerri Chou
We always say that doing good can be fun and nothing embodies that better than PlayPumps, which created a merry-go-round that's also a water filtering pump. Kids spin the pump, providing otherwis...
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