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Green Glossary: Meltwater 30 Jun 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Meltwater is "the water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice and ice shelfs over oceans. Meltwater is often found in the ablation zone of glaciers, where the rate of snow cover is reducing."+ READ MORE	{ }
Trust Stella McCartney: Meat-Free Mondays are Hip, not Hippie! 29 Jun 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH \| COMMENTS Did you know that if everyone gave up meat every Monday it would be more effective in curbing carbon emissions than if everyone stopped driving their car every Monday? Take it from eco-fashionista and Beatles baby, Stella McCarntey! + READ MORE	{ }
Meet Auden Schendler, Author of Getting Green Done 25 Jun 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Sometimes sustainability isn't so easy, neat, or simple enough to be achieved in six green steps. Auden Schendler would know. His experience as trying to green Colorado's man-made, artificial ski destination, Aspen Skiing Company (he's their official Executive Director of Sustainability), proves a...+ READ MORE	{ }
Eat a Vegetarian Diet, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by a Ton 22 Jun 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH \| COMMENTS Eating a vegetarian diet has always been a great way to be healthy, eat lower on the food chain, and, like Mom always said, eat your veggies. As more and more research has been done, it turns out that vegetarian diets are also a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, too.+ READ MORE	{ }
UFO Sighting in VA Makes Us Ask: Could We Just Move to Another Planet? 21 Jun 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Last weekend, visitors to the Kings Dominion amusement park in Virginia noticed a strange black ring in the sky. The tight, solidly defined, ring remained stationary throughout the day. One family, believing the ring to be a sign from God, filmed the event and posted their video to YouTube. Others...+ READ MORE	{ }
Take it from a Beatle: Cut Your Carbon Footprint by Making Mondays Meat-Free 21 Jun 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH \| COMMENTS So Beatlemania may be long over, but the influence of the world's most famous pop band lives on—or at least so hopes founding member Paul McCartney, who's launched a movement to get people to stop eating meat on Mondays to help combat global warming. The movement began last year, but has now...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Carbon Sink 21 Jun 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT \| COMMENTS A carbon sink is a "reservoir that absorbs or takes up released carbon from another part of the carbon cycle." Carbon behaves in such a systematic manner in four regions of the Earth: the atmosphere, terrestrial biosphere (usually including freshwater systems), oceans, and sediments (including...+ READ MORE	{ }
Dengue Fever Will Run Rampant on a Warmer Planet: Are You Prepared? 19 Jun 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH \| COMMENTS Our climate is changing. It's getting warmer. That means tropical diseases that are often carried by mosquitoes will be heading north. Dengue fever is one such tropical disease. It affects up to 100 million people a year and the World Health Organization says that 2.5 billion people are currently at...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Intellectual Property 16 Jun 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Let's start with the technical definition: "Intellectual property (IP) are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law...Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and...+ READ MORE	{ }
Why I'm Writing Obama a Letter About His New Ocean Policy 16 Jun 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Our first World Ocean's Day on June 8 came and went so quickly that it was just over the weekend when I remember thinking to myself; I wonder if anyone actually gives a damn? That was until yesterday...+ READ MORE	{ }

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