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Do Your Shopping On Small Business Saturday

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Do Your Shopping On Small Business Saturday

Dense, walkable, resilient towns and cities are a key component of getting off oil, and viable main street retail is the key to having vibrant main streets. For historic preservationists concerned about the fabric of our main streets, successful stores are key to maintaining our main street buildings. That’s why National Trust for Historic Preservation is behind Small Business Saturday ; the big businesses are usually in the big boxes in the ‘burbs. But it isn’t just about buildings; it’s about jobs…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Too Much Doom & Gloom is Not Why People Stopped Believing in Climate Change

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Too Much Doom & Gloom is Not Why People Stopped Believing in Climate Change

Photo: nosha , Flickr, CC While I do think it’s true that we can an overload on apocalyptic imagery in discussions and stories about climate change, that’s not why people have stopped believing that it’s real. A recent study from UC Berkeley purported to find that too much doom and gloom was turning people off to the very idea of global warming, because it “threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable.” Faced with a concept that poses such a threa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots

Photo via The Stamford Times While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things — like working to save endangered species . Sure, it’s a long way from the halls of a middle-school in Connecticut to the forests of New Zealand, home of the flightless Kakapo parrot — but that matters little to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turn Black Friday Green, Part I: KIND Towels

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Turn Black Friday Green, Part I: KIND Towels

Photo Credit: Joel Fitzpatrick If you must shop the day after Thanksgiving , at least buy something sultry and green. Joel Fitzpatrick, famous for making Hush Puppies a household name, has launched KIND towels to put a little desire back into your cloth goods. The line is all-natural, un-dyed, unbleached , certified

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Wireless Charging Market To Hit $11.8 Billion by 2020

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Wireless Charging Market To Hit $11.8 Billion by 2020

Photo via jeffk Wireless charging has been growing in popularity the last couple years. This last Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed several promising companies , and there are sure to be more in January at the next show. The idea of charging devices without having to actually plug them into the wall each time is appealing to many consumers, and the market seems to be revealing this trend.

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Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time

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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Spectrolab is Starting Mass-Production of 39.2% Efficient Concentrating Solar Cell

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Spectrolab is Starting Mass-Production of 39.2% Efficient Concentrating Solar Cell

Image: Spectrolab Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary Spectrolab , a subsidiary of Boeing, has announced that it is starting mass-production of a very efficient concentrating solar cell, the C3MJ+ (the datasheet above is for the C3MJ, the “plus” version is a newer, slightly more efficient model). With an efficiency at converting sunlight into electricity of 39.2%, this cell would be the most efficient on the market. “Last year we set a new world record for efficiency with a test cell that peaked at 41.6 percent. We now have entered production with ess… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Make the Holidays More About Sharing and Less About Stuff

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Make the Holidays More About Sharing and Less About Stuff

This guest post was written by Lisa Gansky, CEO, co-founder and chairman of Ofoto, board member of Me Please, Squidoo, TasteBook, and Dos Margaritas, and author of The Mesh . Yes. For so many of us, the holidays are nothing if not stressful. We worry about what gifts to give and how big a beating our checkbooks will take. We hate that we often aren’t grateful for the stuff we receive . Our holiday spirit—the joy we find in playing, cooking, laughing, an… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Ethanol

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Ethanol

Photo: World Economic Forum , Flickr, CC Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea — there’s little disagreement about that , especially in environmental circles. For starters, it’s an incredibly inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Don’t Get Groped; Take the Train.

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Don’t Get Groped; Take the Train.

Image credit: White House As Brian has noted, In Ohio, the new Governor says “Passenger rail is not in Ohio’s future, That train is dead.” High speed rail is under attack by Republicans across the country. As people line up to get irradiated by the pornoscatter machines, or felt up by the TSA inspectors, perhaps they should give a thought to writing to the leaders they just elect… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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