Green roofs growing in New York City. Photos: Eve Mosher Putting a green roof on a landmark building — the city hall in Toronto or Chicago, a convention center in Vancouver , San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences — has long bee… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time
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Image: Nissan Tactile Feedback FTW Nissan’s ECO Pedal is a great idea. We’ve known for a while that giving drivers some feedback on their fuel consumption helps them drive more efficiently (and more sanely!). The most obvious example is the LCD screen in the Toyota Prius, but there are other ways of providing that feedback. Ford has an instrument cluster that grows leaves to ‘reward’ you for effici… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan is Licensing Fuel-Saving ECO Pedal to Other Automakers
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The Friday after Thanksgiving, shoppers will—as they do every year—line up in front of stores, poised to descend en masse on the goods housed within. Some do it for the deals, others for the excitement, and some avoid it all together. The
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Oxfam Unwraps its Collection of Donation Gifts for the Holiday Season
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Image credit Sam Oberter I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house . Evidently neither could the US Green Building Council ; they have awarded it the 2010 project of the year…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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100K House From Postgreen Wins LEED Project of the Year
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter For those of you who are tired of hearing about Thanksgiving or who aren’t planning on hosting or attending a big Thanksgiving dinner, here is something completely different. Make yourself an Indian inspired dinner instead. This is one of those dishes that is a staple of Indian restaurants, but is easy to
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Weekday Vegetarian: Bombay Aloo
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Source: City of Providence, Rhode Island The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the Providence River. The bridge will create a new connection for pedestrians and bicyclists from the Fox Point and College Hill neighborhoods to Downtown and link two new wate… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Design Competition for Pedestrian Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island
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Image via People Power People Power , a company we first learned about a couple years ago at West Coast Green, is moving into more serious territory than the energy-saving Facebook app launched earlier this year. Current trends show we’re on a path to have over 100 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, and People Power is getting ready to be ahead of that wave when it comes to energy efficiency with it’s new En… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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People Power Bring ESP to the Smart Grid (Video)
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Photo: TreeHugger No matter where your skills (or lack of) lie, there’s a DIY category for you. From crafting and building to biking and gardening, putting your own two hands to work is a rewarding way to save money and trim your carbon footprint. An added bonus: Taking the time to make something by hand gives you an escape from routine — and a sense of accomplishment — that’s priceless. Encourage your friends’ and family’s inner DIY’er with these eco-friendly gifts. Produced by Mairi Beautyman
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Green Gift Guide: The DIY’er (Slideshow)
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Photos: FareShare “Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria,” suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards. So far this year they’ve saved 468 tonnes of food that would’ve otherwise been sent to landfill. Then 3,000 volunteers have cooked 1,114,461 meals for the needy, and doing so FareShare has supported 130 charities. As those impressive figures suggest, this is no ordinary do-gooder group, but a well-oiled, switched-on, dynamic organisation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill
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Image credit: Encore /The Purpose Prize From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder , through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online , to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources , a return to sustainable farming does not mean a rejection of what technology has to offer. Inspired by the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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$3k Website Connects Farms to Restaurants, Creating Virtual Coop
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