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Gift Guide: Karaoke Revolution Lets You Sing With Unabashed Glee

If you’ve ever listened to friends (or Movieline employees) say that they could sing better than Cory Monteith, now is your chance to have them prove it by gifting them with the perfect addition to any Gleek’s (parent’s) entertainment studio.

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iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill

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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Forever Frugal? Survey Confirms Persistent Frugality

Photo: found at OC Register 50% of Americans had reduced their electronics and apparel expenditures in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by management consulting firm, Booz & Company . They sum up their findings saying that “the impact of the brutal recession of 2008-2009 has resulted in lasting changes in consumer behaviors, and disruptive changes in the consumer goods and retail landscapes.” they go on to suggest that these, “self-reported changes in consumer behavior, ev… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oxford Atlas of the World, 17th Edition (Book Review)

Photo taken by Michael Graham Richard, used with permission of Oxford University Press What a Fascinating Planet! Maybe it’s my geeky side, but I’ve always liked encyclopedias and atlases. When I was younger, I spent hours looking for one thing but reading about 15 others things on the way there (kind of what Wikipedia makes people do now, with all those tempting links sprinkled in each entry), so I was happy to be offered a review copy of the 17th edition of the Oxford Atlas of the World. But this large and high-quality book isn’t just a dry compilation of maps, it… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Maine Residents Wary of Smart Meters, GE Pours $55 Million Into Start-Ups, and More Smart Grid News

Photo via mpeterke There’s quite a bit of news in the smart grid scene, and we’ve rounded up the most interesting stories. Check out the what’s what, from smart appliances taking over the industry to how much money the DOE is sending to new smart grid companies. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Will 3D Printing Spark A Green Manufacturing Revolution?

Star Wars Blog It will be a while before there is a 3D printer in every home (although you can build your own Makerbot now and print out your own low-res Darth Vader ) but the implications of the technology is being discussed everywhere right now. BLDGBLOG writes that one company, Made in Space, “… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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1 in 10 Americans Own an e-Reader, and Read More Than The Rest of Us

Photo via Johan Larsson According to a new poll by Harris Interactive , Americans are latching on to e-readers in a big way. Nearly 1 in 10 of us (8%) use an e-reader device, and 12% of us plan to buy one in the next year. Considering how new e-readers are, that’s a significant number. But we come back to the ever-present question: Is this better for the environment than buying printed books?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EPA Nixes External Adaptors from Energy Star Program

Photo via alistairas The Environmental Protection Agency decided that external power adapters aren’t eligible for inclusion in the Energy Star Label program, the reason being that they’re doing too good a job meeting qualifications anyway. Since most external adapters meet qualifications, there’s no point in wasting resources putting them through the labeling process. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense to streamline the program where possible (after all, Energy Star is

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A Crackhead Explains How To Keep Your Bike From Being Stolen

The Bicycle Thief, caught. A former crackhead tells all in the Guardian about his career as a bicycle thief and what he does to avoid having his own bike stolen. We have noted before that the weight of the bike lock is inversely proportional to the weight of the bike, and Aziz basically concurs, using two thick chains through both wheels and the frame…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rare Blue Flower Discovered Blooming on British Farm

Photo via jkirkhart35 The blue pimpernel, cousin of the more famous (and common) scarlet pimpernel, was found growing on a farm in south Worcestershire in the UK. But where normally this might send a troop of conservationists hauling out to make sure no plows turn the plant under, this particular farm is actually the perfect places for a rare botanical species. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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