Author: Green Architect Jeremy Bonin, AIA, LEED AP
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On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation.

Participation is easy. By flipping off your lights on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation and prosperous America. View the Earth Hour

toolkits, to find out what else you can do to get involved including leading the Earth Hour movement in your community.

Since its inception three years ago, Earth Hour’s non-partisan approach…

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Author: easy eco blog
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PGE has started installing Smart meters in many locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. A wireless smart meter controversy has arisen stating that the meters are not accurate and customers are being overcharged. PGE Counters by saying that a rate increase occurred during the smart meter rollout. Third-party labs need to test the meter to verify accuracy.

One thing is for sure, the meters add another RF radiation source to our lives.

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Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2010/03/17/going-plastic-free-at-r…

Plastic bottles – specifically of the bottled water variety – have earned some notoriety in the green consumer circles. Having been accused (and often rightly so) of greenwashing their efforts to be environmentally responsible, eco-advocates have encouraged the slashing and in some cases boycott of bottled water altogether.

And now it looks like “Water on the Rocks” – a new environmental program by hotel industry leader(s) RockResorts and Vail Resorts Hospitality, is following suit.

The Rocks program calls for the elimination of nearly all plastic water bottles from guest rooms and offers hotel guests reusable water bottles with refilling stations. With this program in place, RockResorts properties from Vail to St. Lucia and Vail Resorts Hospitality properties in all four Colorado mountain resorts – Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Beaver Creek – are expecting to save an estimated 640,000 plastic water bottles from the waste stream.

According to Julie Klein,…

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Author: Dean
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2010/03/nail-polish/

Sometimes it can be hard to find ways to make our habits more eco-friendly.  Fortunately, sometimes making a few small changes can greatly affect our health and sustainability.  When it comes to nail polish, you can find plenty of cute, eco-friendly alternatives. When shopping for nail polish there are three big ingredients to avoid:
1) Formaldehyde. [...]

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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2010/03/i-dont-like-the-smell-of-t…

By Alex Formuzis, EWG Director of Communications

Driving the ladies wild just became more expensive.

Conopco Inc. d/b/a Unilever, the company that makes the popular male body spray AXE, has been fined more than $1 million by California for releasing volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, every time a young man sprays himself down before hitting the club or heading off to school.

I remember it was Drakkar Noir and Obsession for Men back in my day; too bad neither did a thing for me. Could it have been my liberal applications of both that had the girls running flat out in the opposite direction? Who knows?

Fast-forward from the cologne-fueled mid-80’s to today. Millions of young men now keep a bottle of AXE body spray in their rooms, lockers or glove boxes. That’s where I kept mine. Again, maybe part of my problem.

You propel your A-X-E with W-H-A-T?
A can of AXE uses volatile organic compounds (aka VOCs) as propellants. In fact, VOCs are used in most spray products,…

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