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Live a Day Without Electricity By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Oct 30 2008 This Bold Green Move may be the most difficult of any I've proposed so far?but it may also be the most fun to try to accomplish. Here's the challenge: pick a day in the near future, and go that entire day without using any electricity?at all. No TV, no houselights, no Internet, no cell phones. Nothing. + READ MORE

Buddy Up in the Shower and other Sexy Ways to a Greener Lifestyle By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Oct 27 2008 Taking a trip to the recycling center doesn't seem like it is very romantic, and it is wholly unromantic to take the light of your life to the junkyard to salvage some building materials. How can you add some sustainable spice to your green love life? + READ MORE

5 Ways to Green Your Car For Under 25 Dollars By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Oct 24 2008 Most people think that in order to make their car run cleaner, they have to go out and buy a hybrid.By insulating your car battery, you can sustain the life of you car battery. + READ MORE

Supporting Tomorrows Green Ideas with the NCIIA and Lemelson Foundation By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Oct 24 2008 Planet Green and the Lemelson Foundation of Colorado are proud to present to you a series of posts dedicated to the talented youth of today who are working on a brighter future with innovative inventions. Jerome Lemelson, the founder of Lemelson Foundation, was a gifted American inventor himself and would be as proud to see what some young folks are up to today + READ MORE

5 Simple Green Things That Will Drastically Cut Your Energy Bills By Sara Novak IN Work & Connect Oct 22 2008 One of the first steps that you should take in an economic slump is finding all the areas of fat and cutting them. I don't mean going on a diet, well I sort of do, a utility diet. Do everything that you can to control your fixed expenses. That means downsizing your living space, transportation, cable bill, water bill, and electricity bill. + READ MORE

How-To: Get Renewable Energy in Seattle By Mat McDermott IN Home & Garden Oct 21 2008 One of the easiest ways to make a big dent in reducing your personal carbon emissions doesn't require changing a single thing you do on a day-to-day basis. Provided that your electricity provider has a green energy program (and more and more of them do) all you have to do is sign up to switch over your electricity from the normal service your utility provides to the renewable energy supplied through their green energy program. + READ MORE

Ride, Don't Drive By Jessica Root IN Tech & Transport Oct 16 2008 With the recent climb in gas prices, more American families are actually spending more money on transportation than they are on food. While this frightening fact might seem more paralyzing than pro-active--especially for those of us still stuck behind the wheel--there is something simple we can do: By driving a mere ten fewer miles per week, we can bypass the pump and plump up our wallets. + READ MORE

G Word Video: Nano-Nano By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Oct 16 2008 Go outside on a clear summer day and the abundance of energy coming from the sun is obvious. The problem is capturing that energy in a way that is efficient. Currently, solar panels are capable of turning about 15% of the solar energy they receive into electricity. However, a group in Canada hopes that, through the use of some futuristic technologies, this number can be increased to as much as 50%. + READ MORE

How-To: Get Green Power in Seattle By Mat McDermott IN Home & Garden Oct 14 2008 One of the easiest ways to make a big dent in reducing your personal carbon emissions doesn't require changing a single thing you do on a day-to-day basis.Because the electricity generated from the wind power gets mixed into the transmission grid at large along with many other forms of electricity being generated.But... + READ MORE

Drop the Thermostat and Use an Electric Blanket - Save Money and Energy By Eric Leech IN Home & Garden Oct 13 2008 When you are trying to be environmentally conscious to the world, it is amazing how sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference.The cost of getting all this stuff up to snuff could skyrocket into the thousands if you are not careful, and we are talking about the $15,000, $30,000, on up to $100,000's,... + READ MORE

Neckties and other Lesser Known Eco Evils By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Oct 13 2008 We should all know by now that water bottles, plastic bags, aerosol cans and auto emissions are bad for the environment. Cars are polluting the sky, and we still drive them and buy gas and use plastic bags and shoot aerosol-powered deodorant into our armpits. We are trying to knock it off, but these things take time. + READ MORE

Is Pushiness Best Way to Get Wind Power? By Leslie Billera IN Work & Connect Oct 13 2008 Write! Write like the wind! The Good News According to the American Wind Energy Association website: "U.S. wind farms now generate more electricity than any other nation in the world and are on track to expand by over 45% this year." (Check out sister site Treehugger?s report on why wind rocks, here.) + READ MORE

G Word Video: Human Car By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Oct 10 2008 When you think of a car, you probably include things like an engine, or at least a motor, gasoline, even batteries. But what if there could be a car powered entirely by human motion; one that did not need an engine, fuel, batteries, or even electricity. + READ MORE

Hand Crank Power, Common Electronics You Can Power Yourself By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Oct 8 2008 Cell Phones, flashlights, music players—things like these are practically necessities in the 21st century. Just about everyone has them, yet they suck up electricity, drain batteries, and create waste. So how about a hands-on solution? + READ MORE

How to Green Your iGoogle By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Oct 7 2008 I'd like to talk about one of Google's slightly lesser known applications, its iGoogle homepage—millions use it sure, but that's way fewer people than those who simply use their search engine. + READ MORE

Are You Using Energy Star to its Full Potential? By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Oct 6 2008 You may have seen the blue and white Energy Star logo before on ads or certain appliances, and brushed it off as some sort of electric company—we did. But it's worth getting to know Energy Star—in reality, it's a joint program of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. + READ MORE

G Word Video: Revolving Energy By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Oct 6 2008 As we walk to and from work, in and out of our favorite lunch stops, and up and down the subway stairs, we expend a lot of energy. What if our doors, staircases, and sidewalks were engineered to harness some of that energy and turn it into electricity that could power buildings? + READ MORE

Study With e-Textbooks—Plant Trees with iChapter By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Sep 17 2008 Take heed, environmentally conscious students (and parents)! You're indeed a growing force?entire colleges are now graded on how green they can get?educated, active, and vocal in and about the modern green movement. And while you have our utmost respect for spreading the word and taking action on the eco-front, we still have to ask: how green are your study habits? + READ MORE

Roadie Blog, Week 6, Duel in the Desert By Team Planet Green IN Battleground Earth Sep 11 2008 It's 9 AM and I'm woken up by the commotion around me ? Ludacris, Big Willie, 4-ize, and Sesean are all staring out the windows, confused as to where we are going. Great ? I hope we are not... + READ MORE

Find Out How Much Electricity You Use, Then Cut Back By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden Sep 8 2008 Using electricity is a tough thing to conceptualize—we draw it from our sockets to power computers, stereos, and appliances, and it indiscriminately runs our refrigerators, microwaves, and air conditioners. We're even sucking down electricity when our appliances are off, thanks to phantom power. It all amounts to the sapping of resources—whether your electricity comes from coal burning plants or nuclear power—and we could all stand to cut down. + READ MORE