TreeHugger:
Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: EthicureanLast week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenho (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Alex at Shedworking is expanding into interior design, with this bookcase that opens up to "create an environment which helps us to concentrate and focus," although it won't do much for noise. Alex calls it "shedworkingesque."Designer Rene Siebum won third in the public voting at the Design Academy Eindhoven during Dutch De (Read More)
Submitted by Genwright
from blog:
Toolbox talks are classes in workplace safety, designed for workers in potentially hazardous industries. These include construction, mining, engineering, heavy manufacturing and similar occupations. Through toolbox talks, workers are taught to spot potential hazards, and take immediate action to report or correct them, or t (Read More)
Techmeme:
Stephen Lawson / PC World:
Palm Shows Ares WebOS Development Tool — Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year. — Ares got its first public demonstration on Thursday at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo credit: ellievanhoutte via FlickrFarmed fish and seafood has sort of a bad reputation in some green circles. Sometimes -- as with, say, Atlantic salmon -- it's for good reason. But there are a number of cases where farming can actually be a good thing -- for water quality, the health of the fish or seafood in question (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Thought the Senate climate bill was on hold all thanks to an ongoing three-day Republican boycott of Environment and Public Works Committee activity? Think again. Using some side-stepping parliamentary procedures, committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA), has managed to get the bill passed by a vote of 11-to-1, AFP reports:...R (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Dhruv PatelIt's so frustrating! You have an excellent product or service You've had a professional design a snappy website for you Yet you're still wondering, where's the business? Here's how to get a consistent flow of targeted traffic to your website To be an effective online vendor, you have to realize that yo (Read More)
Submitted by Milieunet
from YouTube:
America's Most Endangered Mountains - Coal River Mountain, WVPledge to Help End Mountaintop Removal. Visit:www.iLoveMountains.org- - - COMMUNITY STORY - - -"We don't live where they mine coal. They mine coal where we live.... Our concern today is our homes, our environment, and the sustainability of the environment."Lorelei (Read More)
Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy:
As UN negotiators from around the world gather in Barcelona this week to continue hammering out a global climate deal, the question of emissions reduction targets has grabbed center stage in the press.But even if all countries stopped emitting greenhouse gas pollution today, the impacts of climate change will be felt for ye (Read More)
New York Times:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers on Wednesday passed an $11 billion overhaul of the state's antiquated water system in a bid to supply a soaring population while preserving a fragile environment.
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bub.blicio.us:
Google Friend Connect has added some new features this week, releasing an entire set of new options for end users and site publishers. The idea is to make it easier for people to connect on Friend Connect-supported sites, in a more personal way.As Google Friend Connect adds the possibility for any website to become more so (Read More)
Submitted by Holeinhiseye
from Google Reader:
Ever since the introduction of the mobile phone, there has been a shift to add more and more functionalities to mobile devices. We have reached a point where there is plenty of functionality packed into a little device such as a Blackberry or an iPhone but we have also lost something in the shift to mobile computing. The qu (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
I used to work at Dell selling computers to the consumer market.This is the trenches of selling.I could tell you about how your flat panel monitor would reduce eyestrain and cut down power usage and why a Centrino processor would make your computer run cooler and, therefore, extend the battery life. I dealt with hardcore ge (Read More)
TreeHugger:
On Climate Change, "China has to say, this is my problem, and my solution"For more than two decades, Dr. Yang Fuqiang has been a participant in the energy and climate change discussion in and around China. His career began as a researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission, the Chinese government's main econo (Read More)
Submitted by Stewbagz
from blog:
There Are Many Ways To Learn And Or To Be Taught. In The Digital Age That Is Upon Us It Is Inevitable That Learning Environments Would B
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