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Universal Cell Phone Charger Coming Soon…At Some Point…In the Maybe-Not-Distant Future…

published September 2, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via kalleboo A common complaint about cell phones is that there is no universal charger -- if you don't have the one that works specifically for your phone, well, you're just out of luck when your battery dies. It's not only a hassle for cell phone owners, but it's a huge problem for e-waste as the chargers become ...

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Is the UK’s First Green Cell Phone Rating System Bending the Rules?

published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country's first green cell phone ranking system -- something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post:  Is the UK's First Green Cell Phone Rating System Bending the Rules?

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Apple Refuses To Take Part In UK’s First Green Cell Phone Ranking System

published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo by Gonzalo Baeza Hernández The UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets , but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the iPhone to be included in the system by O2, but its reasons for declining the opportunity aren't exactly clear. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

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Indian Tribals’ Sacred Mountain Not Safe Until Vedanta Refinery Closed

published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments

Until the refinery at Lanjigarh is closed, indigenous groups feel Niyamgiri mountain is not safe. Photo: Survival International . While there was unrestrained rejoicing yesterday by indigenous rights campaigners after the Indian government halted a proposed bauxite mine by Vedanta Resources on the grounds it threatened the rights of two tribal groups in Orissa, an article in the Original ...

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India Stops Plans to Drive Real-Life Avatar Tribe Off Land For Bauxite Mine on Sacred Mountain

published August 24, 2010 and has No Comments

All images courtesy Survival International The government of India has halted plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to establish a bauxite mine of the sacred tribal lands of the Dongria Kondh and Kutia people in Orissa. The move comes after a report commissioned by India's environment minister found the proposed mine would violate the tribal people's rights, as well as ...

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Who Has Open Fires When It’s 100 Degrees Outside? Olive Garden

published August 20, 2010 and has No Comments

Image credit: Olive Garden & Peter Baker (Creative Commons) When I wrote about drying clothes indoors , I was surprised to hear that some folks had considered opening the windows and cranking up the heat on the thermostat as a "green" method of clothes drying - even when you wouldn't otherwise need to heat your house. But they're not ...

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Vedanta’s Controversial Bauxite Mine Violates Tribal People’s Rights: Indian Govt Report

published August 17, 2010 and has No Comments

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EPA Proposal Addresses Abuse of Chemical Trade Secret Claims

published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments

Image: Sylvar, Flickr After the Environmental Working Group exposed a study claiming that chemical manufacturers overuse the trade secret protections provided in current law, the EPA is taking action. Proposed changes to the Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) rules will require manufacturers to substantiate their trade secret claims up front, with their update report. EPA touts the proposed changes as ...

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It’s Not Time to Scale Back the Gulf Coast Cleanup, Is It?

published August 8, 2010 and has No Comments

Image via Boston With the flow of oil from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico capped and most of the spilled oil skimmed from the water's surface, incoming CEO Robert Dudley said last weekend that it was time for BP to "scaleback" its cleanup efforts, the AP reported . E... Read the full story on TreeHugger More ...

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Tyson Foods May Have a Sustainability Report But It Doesn’t Mean Factory Farming is Ever Sustainable

published August 6, 2010 and has No Comments

I normally don't take direct aim at other people's reporting, but a recent post on Tyson Foods new sustainability report over at SmartPlanet made me wonder if I was living on that same planet as the author. What's sure is we have differing definitions for 'sustainable' and the place of factory farming in the world.... Read the full story ...

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