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Photo: Meaghan O'Neill One of the most established names in high-end sustainable fashion, Bahar Shahpar 's runway collection, shown this past Tuesday at the GreenShows during New York Fashion York, proved once again that she is a leader in not just green fashion, but fashion-forward design in general. One of the first designers to have elevated green fashion above ...
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Photo by Graham Bones via Flickr At 12:18 pm on Monday, September 21, people around the world will kick-off Global Climate Change Week in New York City by making some noise, ringing a bell, banging a gong, clanging cymbals, hollering, etc. to urge leaders to take bold action. Mark your calendars. As the UN Assembly meets, 9/21-26, in preparation ...
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House of Organic Spring 2010 Collection at the Green Shows during New York Fashion Week. Credit Meaghan O'Neill House of Organic 's Spring/Summer 2010 collections at the Green Shows -- the place to be for style-minded greenies during New York Fashion Week -- featured designs by Johanna Hofring ,
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Geek out for a good cause! "Lend a Helping Hard Drive." gives you the downlow on Mozilla Service Week, a Firefox-fueled initiative to spread the technological love. It's easy to cringe thinking about the 30 million trees used to print books in the US, but the Green Press Initiative is crusading hard to make recycled paper a major priority ...
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Folding Electric Bikes + Bus Stops = Perfect Commute? Every once in a while, you see a proposed design and think, "there's absolutely no reason this shouldn't already exist." This is one such design--folding bike rental hubs combined directly with bus stops for a comprehensive public transit system. The system would allow users to rent folding e-bikes from a ...
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A weekly wrap up of green and socially minded business news from the gang at TriplePundit.com Three Tips for Engaging Employees in Sustainability - Working on making your company greener? Getting the whole crew on board is k... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sigg's Slip Up, Profitable Organics, and Tips for Your Workplace
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So the data's in from the National Snow and Ice Data Center on this year's Arctic summer sea ice melting and though this year's retreat wasn't as pronounced in the past two, it is the third largest since records began being kept in 1979, and "still below the long-term average, and well outside the range of natural variability." The ...
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Photo via Zengame In May, Cisco positioned itself as the next big kid on the smart grid block . Today, a new announcement shows that that position seems to be panning out. The company is working hard to create an "ecosystem" with companies from all areas of the smart grid scene, developing partnerships that will establish how the smart ...
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Photo via About Green Could be bad news for the prospects of a global climate treaty --the Obama administration is now openly planning on having climate talks trickle into 2010. Could this reflect the waning hopes of world leaders for decisive climate action?... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obama Pushes Global Climate Treaty Talks Into 2010
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Coastline off Southern Italy...there's a rare Black Coral forest somewhere out there. Photo via One Man's Perspective Italian researchers said they've found one of the largest forests of rare black coral in the world, but for fear of tipping off plunderers, they're keeping the location a secret. Not only is it home to black coral, but also another coral ...
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