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Image credit: Franco Folini /Flickr As you may know, TerraCycle partners with the public in what we call Brigades to collect everything from wine corks to Sharpie pens, and most famously, Capri Sun juice packs. Each piece collected earns 2 cents donated to the charitable organization or school of people’s choice. Astoundingly, we just reached $1 million paid to Drink Pouch brigaders! That’s 50 million pouches…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Good are 75 Hummers Worth of Juice Pouches?
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Photo: Flickr , CC Smells Like Success Let’s play “good news, bad news”! The good news is that the electric LEAF seems to be very hot. Nissan was expected to reach 20,000 reservations around the time of launch in December, but interest has been so high that they’ve reached that milestone 3 months in advance. The bad news is that if you are interested in getting a Nissan LEAF but were indecisive about reserving one, it’s now too late. Nissan won’t take any new reservations for the LEAF until 2011…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan Stops Taking LEAF Reservations, Reaches 20k Target 3 Months Ahead of Schedule
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photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr It’s no secret that China’s economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it’s also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than in the United States. The effectiveness of those laws is, in the words of Peking University
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Why China’s Environmental Laws Have Been Useless in Stopping Pollution
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photo: UO Power Shift 09 via flickr In trying to convince the nation that passing climate legislation and promoting renewable energy are both good policy, the job creation aspect has undoubtedly been front and center, sometimes seemingly eclipsing the environmental benefits. But has promoting green jobs really been the best policy? Recent comments by California gubernatorial candidate
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Has Touting Green Jobs Been A Mistake?
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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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eBay Says Small, Online Retail Beats Brick-and-Mortar On Carbon Footprint & Calculates By How Much
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Photo via Travelpod And why we might need to sell forests to save them “Conservation has a place,” says, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana on the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative . “Despite all [the conservation groups’] good work,” he says, 50% of the world’s forests are gone. “The only way to preserve forests in the long term is to find alternative uses” that make saving some of the world’s most diverse and important ecosystems eco… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why Conservation Won’t Save the World’s Forests (Video)
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Photo via EarthEcho International Philippe Cousteau, the renowned oceans advocate, has been doing some of the best reporting on the Gulf out there (some of it has been published here on TreeHugger ). I caught up to him at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, where he’d just launched a student-citizen journalism program called STREAM — which he discussed further in an interview I’ll publish tomorrow. But with the news coming last week that leaking we… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Philippe Cousteau Explains State of BP Spill in 45 Seconds (Video)
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Photo: Wikipedia , public domain For the Chinese Market First The Japanese Nikkei is reporting that Toyota has plans to mass-produce an electric car for the Chinese market starting in 2012. The EV would be based on the Toyota Vios, which is known in North-America as the Yaris sedan , and production will be a joint venture with the China FAW Group. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Toyota Could Produce Yaris EVs In China As Soon As 2012
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Photo via CMAFDA At what may have been the most interesting session at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative — a discussion with leaders from big business and nonprofit orgs on how to find market solutions for protecting the environment — Dr. Sanjayan, the lead scientist of the Nature Conservancy, discussed his agency’s promising large-scale project to turn combating water crises around the world with market-based ‘water protection’ plans. The video after the jump explains: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)
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