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You Seriously Need to Go On A Diet

A Consumption Diet that is. Check out these 10 ways you can cut your consumption, and your impact, courtesy of Reusit.com, previously ReusableBags.com Also, check out The Smallest Compact ReusableBag Set in the World! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYEe5uiao0Q&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]

1 Way to Change the World Through Social Media

Recently, the Max Gladwell blog had a popular post titled “10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media.” Mobile app developer 3rdWhale was listed as a solution. 1% for the Planet recently partnered with 3rdWhale for the next stage of the mobile app. 3rdWhale is the first mobile app developer to join 1%FTP, and [...]

Sorry Boulder

This month Good Magazine revamped the overused and overprinted “Best Bike Cities In the U.S.” story to include some not-so-obvious contenders. Who knew Pittsburgh would make the list? Not I. Check out which 2-wheelin’ metropolis may be giving Boulder a run for its money. Read here: http://www.good.is/post/sorry-portland/ While you’re there, check out this awesome story [...]

TAPPED- The Trailer

By the 2030 the United Nations estimates two-thirds of the world will lack access to clean drinking water. Tapped, the newest project from Atlas Films, and in association with the Clinton Global Initiative, will illustrate the impact of the global water crisis on America and what we can do as individuals to enact change sooner [...]

Cloudveil's Get Your T On Comp – Cold Hard Cash Prizes for Green T-Shirt Designs

Living in a van down by the river? Going on a road trip soon and need some extra cash? Cloudveil is searching the globe for six creative men’s and women’s T-Shirt designs. Designs must involve the themes: Environmental Causes & Place…..causes being green….place being WYOMING! -Design can be submitted by any medium (digital, ink, cardboard…you [...]

Today's Fabrics – Tomorrow's Environment

March 19, 2009 – Polartec hosted a media event at The Loft and Garden in Rockefeller Center, New York City to celebrate their new collection of environmentally friendly fabrics. Fall 2009 garments from the best performance clothing brands in the world were on display to highlight the range of recycled content Polartec fabrics now available [...]

Form vs. Function and PR 2.0

Newton Running has recently been featured in dozens of environmental and packaging blogs (yes, blogs about packaging) with a story about their cool, eco-friendly, molded pulp shoeboxes. The story reached a fever pitch with a re-post on treehugger.com. One problem though, Newton never actually produced those shoeboxes. Turns out Newton’s ad agency submitted the shoebox [...]

ESC and InPower Systems Launch Smarterbuilding.com

Colorado-based Electronic Systems Consultants and InPower Systems are pleased to announce the launch of Smarterbuilding.com. Launching today, Smarterbuilding.com will connect professional architects, designers and alternative energy experts with enthusiasts and consumers to discuss progressive building projects and ideas that push the boundaries of innovation in technology, materials and energy. The blog will be an open [...]

FLOW Trailer

FLOW-THE FILM- HOMEPAGE Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and [...]

MTV Takes Down Greenwashing

Straight from Treehugger this week is the new MTV Greenwashing video, a soapbox statement about the state of environmental marketing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0QminAPMM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1]