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Starbucks 3 Billion Paper Cups Need to Go Somewhere
Starbucks is finding new ways to use the 3 billion paper cups its customers use each year, even in cities where recycling is not popular or mandated.
This fall, it will send cups used at its Chicago stores to Green Bay, where a Georgia Pacific paper mill will turn them into Starbucks [...]
Colombia’s Crazy Green Canidate
Colombia goes to the polls this weekend to choose a successor to their outgoing President, Alvaro Uribe. One of the favourites is Antanas Mockus, former Mayor of the capital. Not all voters take him seriously, but his wish to crack down on the country’s FARC guerillas and culture of corruption has won him swathes of [...]
China Pushes Green Technology
China is leading a push by Asia-Pacific nations into green technology, which could be their ticket to sustained growth and reduced reliance on Western markets, the United Nations said Thursday. This is much needed because of China’s incredible growth over the past decade.
It said environmentally friendly industries could provide export-dependent regional economies with new sources [...]
Cool Stackable Green Cars of the Future
I just love this idea, sort of like taking shopping carts at the grocery store.
Will your car drive itself soon?
If you are like me and half in the bag on some mornings because you don’t get enough sleep and are afraid of falling asleep at the wheel then this new ’self-driving’ idea might just work for you.
A revolutionary roadtrain system that would allow cars to “drive themselves” as part of a convoy of vehicles [...]
What is better than a Mini?
An electric Mini of course!! I just love the mini and if I didn’t have to cart around 5 kids all the time I would definitely own one. Early next decade, BMW of North America plans to sell an electric “megacity car” as a sub-brand of BMW, similar to the brand’s M high-performance cars. [...]
Wind Power and Charity Together
I love it when green meets charity and here is a case of just that. An elaborate playhouse featuring a gearmotor from Bison Gear and Engineering Corp., St. Charles, Ill., sold for $10,000 at auction, with proceeds used to provide free home repair services for elderly and low-income homeowners in the San Francisco Bay Area. [...]
Back to School with N1H1
The Daily Green had some good advice on dealing with N1H1 at back-to-school time. It’s a new virus, so there’s no telling how bad it will be this fall and winter, but so far H1N1 — the swine flu — has proven to be a virulent, but not altogether debilitating strain of the flu.
It’s important [...]
Clover is Not a Weed
I’m jumping over a four leaf clover!
Once upon a time, before the advent of synthetic weed killers for the lawn in the late 1940s, most American lawns contained white clover. Because no formulation of weed control could be developed that left both grass and clover, but killed everything else, clover was then lumped in with [...]
Car Pollution
No surprised here…
Women exposed to air pollution from freeways and congested roads are much more likely to give birth to premature babies and suffer from preeclampsia, according to a study by University of California scientists published Wednesday.
The findings, based on pregnant women in the Long Beach/Orange County region of Southern California, add to the growing [...]
That Time of the Year Top Picks 2009
Top Picks of 2009
Consumer Reports chooses the best cars, trucks and SUVs of the year.
By the Editors of Consumer Reports
Of the more than 300 vehicles we’ve recently tested, our Top Picks are the best all-around choices in their categories. This year’s list includes two new models: The Toyota Highlander is our new pick for midsized SUVs, unseating the [...]