Entries Tagged as 'Environment'

Got Junk Mail? Want a dollar?

April 14th, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

Tired of hauling your junk mail from mailbox to recycling bin (or <shudder> trash can)? Sick of sorting through the catalogs to find your birthday cards from Grandma? Well, you're in luck....
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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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Solar Sound

March 14th, 2008 by William Schroeder

Austin is known for being a hub of green movement as well as a thriving music scene. Concerts during SXSW have helped highlight the use of sustainable energy in the world around us. "Most people d...
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Planning for Good Takes on TIME’S UP!

March 13th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

Planning for Good's (the group of account planners and their friends using their brains to help solve problems for causes and non-profits) is taking on a branding brief for TIME'S UP!, the group t...
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Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who’s The Greenest Of Them All?

March 6th, 2008 by Abe Silk

Slate's environmental reporter, whose mildly amusing nom de plume is The Green Lantern, checks in this week with an article that rates the three remaining presidential candidates on their proposed e...
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Green Freedom for All

February 22nd, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

  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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