Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/01/osama-green-laden/

Wow.  With friends like this…

CBS, The Boston Globe, and other news services are reporting that Osama bin Laden’s latest message (known to be recent since he mentions COP15) blasts the US and other industrialized nations for causing climate change and hurting our planet.

”Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact,” the tape says according to al-Jazeera. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

Project managers know about having powerful stakeholders and sponsors.  They also know that projects sometimes make “strange bedfellows”.  We’ve seen that on projects like Cape Wind, in which the local tribes and certain environmental groups and Ted Kennedy and others have formed a patchwork alliance that has helped delay that project by 9 years, so far.  These disparate groups worked together despite some very clear disagreements between them…

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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2010/01/carnival-of-the-green-1291…

212 weeks ago the Carnival of the Green began over a pint of beer in London. Now it bounces from green blog to green blog, week after week, around the world. From EcoJoe’s last week right here to EWG’s Enviroblog.

At EWG, we dish out a lot of (very useful, practical, science-based!) advice on how to live with fewer toxics, so it comes naturally to present this week’s Carnival posts as suggestions on different ways to live green - from a host of green bloggers ’round the globe.

You can choose from one of these 14 green living ideas today (more, of course, if you’re feeling gung-ho):

1. Dave suggests: Be polite when sharing your environmental zeal. No fair being scary.
An aggressive note from a neighbor having to do with the weekly trash, a dead bear, and getting sent back to the east coast. [Enviroblog: Let's hear it for the neighbors!]

2. Jess suggests: Don’t drag them kicking and screaming to greenness.
Studies indicate that one of the most effective ways to change…

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Author: easy eco blog
Website: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/easyecoblog/~3/odYYClu4Twk/

photo credit: RcktManIL
Avoiding the chemical BPA is much harder than we expected. Those with young children and infants need to be concerned even more.
Food and  Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a January 2010 update on Bisphenol A that says it many not be safe for children and infants.  In its report on BPA, the [...]

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Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2010/01/29/how-can-voluntourism-bo…

Voluntourism may be just what the The Kingdom of Jordan needs to tap it wealth of cultural assets, say tourism experts.

According to David Clemmons, an expert on the niche market and editor of Voluntourist, the concept of volunteer travel caters to those who would like to leave a lasting impact on the community they visit.

“It wasn’t until voluntourism that we as travellers could express our gratitude,” Clemmons told The Jordan Times. “There is a need not only to take something back home, but to leave something behind, to leave a piece of the traveler. This is where we see this market heading.”

Roots in caring

The concept of voluntourism originated over a decade ago, with Western backpackers staying with families in South America and looking for ways to help the local community. Since then, the market has grown, with tourists engaging in volunteer activities on all five continents, ranging from building local schools to aiding in harvests.

According to a 2009 forecast poll…

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Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2010/01/29/haiti-prone-to-environm…

Medical waste

Emergency response operations are currently generating a very significant amount of medical waste, which is piling up in hospitals and medical treatment centers. No systems…

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Author: Green Talk
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After all the holiday presents have been exchanged, the tree taken down, and the ornaments put away, how many of you still have up your holiday cards laying around?  I tend to keep mine up a little longer because I love the festive colors that adorn my mantel.

Usually, I take off the pictures that my friends give me of their kids and store them away in my albums and toss the rest into the recycling bind.  Diane at the Big Green Purse mentioned that she uses her old holiday cards for gift tags.  I thought what a brilliant idea.

Each year, I must give out 50 plus boxes of pumpkin butter puree to all my kids teachers with my minimalistic wrapping solution inspired by Beth of Fake Plastic Fish.  However, I was cutting up paper apples that I had from another project to make little tags for the gifts.  To add to my already uber-green-holiday regime, I thought how cool would that be to add different color holiday messages to my gifts? It is great having an eclectic mix of green…

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Author: Leeann Brown
Website: http://www.ewg.org

I was about seven years old, and frustrated from trying to curl my straight, limp hair when my mom taught me a saying she had learned from her mom when she was a young girl: “What price beauty.”

This classic line refers, of course, to the lengths  to which we go for “beauty.” As a second-grader, having sore arms after 35 minutes of setting curlers was a steep bounty for the temporary effect. Today it’s clear that there are bigger stakes - our health and that of our children and our environment - and these stakes are just too high.

We need safer personal care products.  Here’s why:

They contain toxic chemicals that affect our health.

• Phthalates are most commonly used for softening plastics. When it comes to their use in personal care products, they are a regular ingredient in fragrance and moisturizing beads. A 2008 report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics brought the good news that companies are using less phthalates. However, until they’re officially banned - they’ll remain an…

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Author: easy eco blog
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It is great that recycled materials are getting more mainstream. The new Targus Spruce EcoSmart Backpack for 15.6-Inch Widescreen Laptops is a new green backpack is made of polyster fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.  It also has no PVC and no nickel hardware.  They also make a Spruce Toploading case and a Spruce Messenger [...]

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Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2010/01/28/how-to-find-the-perfect…

Typically, online travel guides are often lacking in the family-friendly department. Would-be family travelers have been looking for a great trip planning experience that also incorporates  info and opinions from robust family-travel expertise.

To meet this need, online travel guru site NileGuide.com and Ciao Bambino have partnered to launch family travel guides for top U.S. and international destinations, available at http://www.nileguide.com/theme/family-travel-4.

“As parents know, traditional online travel sites have limited useful family-friendly content,” said Amie O’Shaughnessy, founder of Ciao Bambino, an award-winning resource for traveling parents. “Our partnership with NileGuide fills that coverage gap, creating a credible and invaluable travel planning resource for families where broad destination information is merged with family-friendly insight.”

For parents, by parents

Parents can now plan their next trip based on family-oriented travel guides and trust…

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Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2010/01/28/eco-romance-is-in-the-a…

Valentine’s Day sure gets a lot of attention each and every year – it is the second largest day of the year for greeting cards, making it a HUGE moneymaker for companies like Hallmark as well as every candy and flower shop you can find.

This year, the starry-eyed can cast their romantic gestures in an entirely new and green way: popular green hotels group Joie de Vivre has unveiled a new “eco-romance package” for guests to reignite the flame while staying environmentally conscious; offering romantic indulgences that have less impact on the environment.

Get it on

The new “Sowing the Seeds of Love” eco-romance package lets guests who book a hotel stay at one of Joie de Vivre’s 35 hotels between Jan. 21 and Dec. 15, 2010 (for travel between Feb. 11 and Dec. 31, 2010) while indulging in a variety of “ecodisiacs” (environmentally-friendly aphrodisiacs), from organic chocolates to “green” bath amenities.

Guests will also receive a bottle of Bonterra Vineyards biodynamic…

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