Author: Heather Philipp
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National Public Radio’s “Power Hungry: Reinventing the U.S. Power Grid”

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Author: Jen Biederman
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Making Makeup Last- Green Living Tip Brought to you by Ideal Bite

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Author: Matt Kiszka
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Major League Baseball’s support of renewable energy and green practices

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Author: Dan Kulpinski
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Sacha at the Going Green DC blog posted an item about a Green Drinks event tonight. The featured speaker will be Steve Ma, president of Live Green, a membership organization that gives members discounts at local green businesses.

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Author: Dan Kulpinski
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Last week the Post had an article in the Home section about "green," environmentally friendly paints. Such paints have low or no VOCs (volatile organic compounds); when these evaporate, they cause the "new paint smell." Inhaling them can lead to respiratory and nervous-system problems. We use zero-VOC paint in our house because my wife has asthma and normal paint would aggravate her lungs. Plus,

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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/05/womens-health-an-enviroblo…

While it may be true that for each and every day, week and month on the American calendar there is something to celebrate or advocate, this week we’re into it. Why?

Because it’s National Women’s Health Week. It’s also a few days after mother’s day, so rather than focus on kids - a concern to us and many women - we decided to shine some light on women’s health.

So we pulled together a little round-up to celebrate National Women’s Health Week. From body burden to safe cosmetics, and from mercury to breast cancer, we’ve blogged about it in 2009.

Whether you’re young or not-so-young, a mother or a grandmother or neither, there are environmental health issues that affect you, and we do our very best to see that they’re addressed by policy makers. Here is a sampling:

Pollution in people: It’s an inside job.
Beverly Wright has done battle with oil refineries and landfills. She has dug her New Orleans East neighborhood out from under tons of contaminated sludge smeared…

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Author: TerraCurve
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People across the globe are counting down to June 5: World Environment Day by participating in UNEP’s ambitious tree planting target that will not only encourage world leaders to seal a climate change deal in Copenhagen, but will also support the Billion Tree Campaign.

UNEP is appealing to everyone around the world to get planting! Whether you choose to plant one tree or thousands, the organization is asking for people across the world to register their “tree planting pledge” on the Billion Tree Campaign website, or by spreading the word to others on the World Environment Day website.

Some 3.1 billion trees have now been planted in 166 countries, and the aim now is to plant seven billion by the end of 2009.

Social media in action

Social networkers around the world can use their “Twitter” accounts to follow the campaign at www.twitter.com/UNEPandYou. UNEP is pledging to plant a tree for every twitter follower who joins in between now and 5 June. The goal is to engage 100,000…

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Author: TerraCurve
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NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, today expanded its travel and leisure guide portfolio with the addition of Lonely Planet for NAVTEQ: Travel Guide.

At launch, the travel guide will cover 19 cities in Australia and New Zealand, with expansion planned to other countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand soon thereafter.

Offering reviews for thousands of points of interest (POIs) throughout Australia and New Zealand - both of which ranked among the top five travel destinations according to Lonely Planet’s 2008 Travellers’ Pulse Survey - the content enables navigation applications to provide recommendations about where to stay, eat or spend leisure time.

Consumers increasingly rely on and seek more information from their navigation systems and mobile devices. In fact, according to the Travellers’ Pulse Survey, 82% of respondents said that they…

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Author: TerraCurve
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Novotel Phan Thiet Ocean Dunes & Golf Resort is the first Novotel resort in Vietnam to have achieved the prestigious Green Globe Certified status. The world-renowned distinction recognizes the hotel’s commitment to operating at the world’s highest environmental standards.

Novotel Ocean Dunes & Golf Resort chose to demonstrate their commitment to the environment by undertaking certification – the highest level of the Green Globe program. The hotel was assessed according to eight performance criteria that will guarantee, among other things, better waste management, less pollution, and energy and water consumption control. After an initial benchmarking phase, the Novotel Phan Thiet Ocean Dunes&Golf Resort was audited in order to obtain Green Globe certification and will undergo the same process annually in order to guarantee that the criteria are maintained.

The successful completion of the certification process demonstrates strong commitment to the principles of environmental…

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Author: TerraCurve
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As evident at last month’s Go Green Expo, “green” products and services are becoming more and more popular, with people embracing the idea across the country that “green” is good. So what could be better than furthering the movement? Educating consumers about the economic and environmental benefits of protecting trees, environmental responsibility and sustainability and “green” products, The Clean Air Green Tour Foundation has been helping the United States environment in education, awareness, and projects.

Winner of the 2009 GREENS Excellence Award, the 2009 National Clean Air Green Tour is a mobile marketing initiative that will visit more than 60 cities across the United States to educate consumers on the latest advances in sustainability. The tour will give visitors hands-on experience with well-known brands that support environmental awareness including Scott Naturals, Bayer Advanced, Codemasters, Michelin, Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce, and Woman’s Day.

The third annual tour…

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