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eBay Says Small, Online Retail Beats Brick-and-Mortar On Carbon Footprint & Calculates By How Much

photo: Keith Williamson via flickr With a new debate ongoing on whether the touted environmental benefits of telecommuting are true, here’s a related tangent to consider: A new white paper done by Cooler at the behest of eBay attempts to quantify the carbon footprint reduction associated with small, online businesses. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Cape Farewell Expedition’s Brush with Disaster

Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Joy Guillemot, an ecological anthropologist and environmental health scientist currently completing a PhD at Johns Hopkins, as part of the Cape Farewell project . “Bring only your passport and dress extremely warmly. The helicopter will arrive in 40 minutes.” Before it was announced, I had already prepared my things to abandon ship. Danger was not retreating against the running clock, and the highly skilled crew was anxious. I felt a bit silly being hyper-prepared, but flashbacks of working i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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