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3 Nov 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Why be a friend to the trees? If nothing else, there's a little something I like to call survival.+ READ MORE
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21 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Three scary connections, three ways to turn things around.+ READ MORE
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20 Oct 2009 IN GREEN-MATERIALS-GUIDE | COMMENTS
Wood frame is traditional balloon or platform wood frame construction.
America was built on wood frame construction; it is fast, cheap and very efficient in its use of materials. The 2x4 stud with the 4' x8" sheet of ply is the ultimate modular building system.+ READ MORE
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19 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Every year, Project Censored compiles the 25 most important but under-reported stories of the year. This year, some urgent environmental issues are included, and if you consider yourself concerned about the environment, you really should know about them. + READ MORE
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15 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Authors looking to green have several auctions. Get started with our guide on How to Go Green: Books for Authors.+ READ MORE
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9 Oct 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
A landmark tree has been cut down in New York City. + READ MORE
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8 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
It's not just environmentalists anymore who are concerned about nature. The business community is increasingly looking to invest in species and habitat conservation, recognizing that nature offers resources and services that are worth more to us than destroyed ecosystems are.+ READ MORE
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27 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
On an over-paved planet, falling leaves often don't get to complete their cycle.+ READ MORE
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9 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
The Monolith music festival will be filled with the hottest in music and the greenest in green--including planting live trees in downtown Denver.+ READ MORE
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21 Aug 2009 IN FASHION & BEAUTY | COMMENTS
Seems we’re often attempting to mimic nature when paying big bucks for beautifying treatments. You spend wads of cash trying to get a “natural” spray tan glow—the more expensive, the more seemingly “natural.” You dedicate hours out of your day at the local hair salon trying to transform your locks...+ READ MORE
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17 Aug 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Several years ago we had to take down our large, sprawling. Then, this past winter, a limb from a tree in the yard behind our home came down under the weight of heavy snow and ice. So we have our fair share of wood, branches and twigs—far more than we use in our fireplace. What to do with all that...+ READ MORE
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5 Aug 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Old growth forests are essential to biodiversity and absorbing human carbon emissions, yet "Rare is the forest untouched by man," writes David Biello in Scientific American. "Whether logging or clearing land for agriculture, the bulk of the world's forests have fallen to crops, cattle or younger...+ READ MORE
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24 Jul 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Steve Thomas is the host of Planet Green's Renovation Nation, a program that focuses on making green renovations to homes across the country.He wanted to utilize ash and red oak from his own acreage and it was about 2.5 times more expensive to use his own wood that it was to buy wood.+ READ MORE
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23 Jul 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Everyone knows the cliches associated with New York City: concrete, skyscrapers, subways, taxi drivers, and so on. But the Big Apple is also the proud home of three amazing botanical gardens. Yep, three of the more than 2000 such gardens worldwide can be found in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.+ READ MORE
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13 Jul 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
The phrase "carbon emissions" gets tossed around a lot these days. You've almost certainly heard them in the same breath as "global warming" or "climate change" and most everyone has a pretty basic idea about where they come from. But, at the end of the day, what the heck are carbon emissions,...+ READ MORE
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