Unplugged Living

January 18th, 2006

4th Annual Young Eco-Hero Awards

Action for Nature, a San Francisco based environmental organization, is calling for entries to its 4th Annual International Eco-Hero Awards.
If you, or someone you know, is an eco-hero between the ages of 8 and 16 and you/they have been involved in some cool and creative environmental activism, then this is the chance for some well […]

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January 17th, 2006

A Different Kind of Horse Power

Police in Manchester, England have come up with a novel idea to cut costs and be a little more eco-responsible.
They are going to take the waste generated by the force’s 40-member team of horses and use it to fuel the heating and hot water system in the horse’s stables.
The horse dung will be collected, compressed […]

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January 16th, 2006

SUNY Canton to Offer Bachelor’s in Alt-E

New York State’s Canton College of Technology in Massena Canton has announced that they will begin offering a four-year bachelor’s degree program in Alternative and Renewable Energy Applications. The New York State Education Department and the State University of New York have given their approval for classes to begin in the Fall semester of […]

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January 15th, 2006

Carnival of the Green #10

Greetings and salutations! Welcome to the 10th edition of the Carnival of the Green, the blog carnival for the green and sustainable blogosphere, brought to you by the fine folks at City Hippy and Triple Pundit.
Before we start the tour of eco-happenings from the last week, lets give a hand to our last host, […]

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January 14th, 2006

Texas Wind Power Gets Hot

The demand for wind power in Austin, Texas has become so great that they’re going to start a lottery to select who gets some. Austin Energy’s Green Choice program had to cut off new sign-ups last October and now with new turbines coming online with enough juice for another 1,400 residential and 200 business […]

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January 11th, 2006

America’s Top Corporate Green Power Users

Yesterday I asked whether the news of the Whole Foods and Kinko’s green energy buys were the sign of a trend (see here).
Today, I came across a post at Andrew Luter’s Ego Ventures blog that provides some insight into who the top green power consumers in corporate America are.

Whole Foods Market Inc. - 458,000 Megawatts/Year
Johnson […]

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January 11th, 2006

Smart Power Strip

Here’s a cool and simple idea. The Smart Strip surge protector and power bar helps conserve your energy use by managing the flow of juice to the peripherals on your computer system.
You plug your PC into the main ‘Control Outlet‘ and your associated peripherals - like monitor, printer, speakers - get plugged into the […]

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January 10th, 2006

FedEx Kinko’s Grows its Green Power Buys

While there has been a ton of mainstream press in regards to Whole Foods Market announcing that they’re going 100% wind power (see Mr Gunther’s post here - Way to go, Shea!), another big US corp also announced a commitment to boost their green power use today.
Although not on the scale of the Whole Foods […]

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January 9th, 2006

Announcing My SimplyThrifty Blog

I just wanted to take a quick moment to toot my own horn about another project that I’ve got going. b5media, the owners and big cheeses around these parts, seem to think that I’m kind of good at this blogging thing and so they’re letting me loose with a couple of more sites, the […]

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January 9th, 2006

Carnival of the Green @ Shea’s Place

Shea Gunther, the Eco-Entrepreneur, is hosting this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Green, edition #9 and to be found here.
A couple of posts that stood out for me were…
City Hippy Al’s highlighting of the Sustainable Energy in Motion Bike Tours put on by PortlandPeace.org. These are really cool cycling vacations where one […]

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