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A list of green web hosting providers that take significant measures to offset their resource use. They do this either buying carbon credits or directly generating their own power from solar or wind energy plants.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Best Green Blogs
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Best Green Blogs is the directory for environment and sustainability blogs. We feature many different weblogs from all over the world that focus on a wide variety of green and sustainability issues, people, things, places and ideas.
Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure
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U.S. EPA information site regarding 'green infrastructure' and its impact on improving management of water runoff during storms. Green infrastructure is an approach to wet weather management that is cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. Green Infrastructure management approaches and technologies infiltrate, evapotranspire, capture and reuse stormwater to maintain or restore natural hydrologies. At the largest scale, the preservation and restoration of natural landscape features (such as forests, floodplains and wetlands) are critical components of green stormwater infrastructure.
How Does Green Infrastructure Benefit the Environment? Reduced and Delayed Stormwater Runoff Volumes - Enhanced Groundwater Recharge - Stormwater Pollutant Reductions - Reduced Sewer Overflow Events - Increased Carbon Sequestration - Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Reduced Energy Demands - Improved Air Quality - Additional Wildlife Habitat and Recreational Space - Improved Human Health - Increased Land Values -
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Low Impact Living
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At Low Impact Living, we want to help you lower the environmental impact of your home and your daily life. To do that, we help you find the best green products, practices and service providers to help you achieve your environmental goals. And we will also help you understand the environmental benefits and economic trade-offs of your choices.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Greener Computing
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A publication of http://www.greenerworldmedia.com/ they focus on the environmental concerns of information technology professionals, covering such topics as energy efficiency, hazardous materials reduction, and disposal and end-of-life issues. Its free e-newsletter, GreenerComputing News, offers the latest news, tools, and resources on these topics.
They have news categories: Data Centers, Servers, Desktops & Laptops, Asset Management, E-Waste Recycling, Virtualization, and Energy & HVAC
Friday, February 6, 2009
Building with Awareness
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Syncronos Design promotes the use of appropriate technology and sustainable design in our built environment. Being a publisher of a DVD video, book, and online content on green building, we emphasize the balancing of materials and user requirements with environmental considerations.
Eco Safe Foundation
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We believe in the power of our individual voice and collective voice as a whole. Together we can change the world. I can, you can, we can. Here and now, from this day forward. They appear to be aiming to build technological widgets including web and social platforms to bring change throughout the world.
Their current service is a "Eco Safe badge" that includes an ability to create PDF's of web pages and send them via email. The idea is it bypasses use of paper.
Sustainable Technologies Acceleration Network (for Development Assistance and Rapid Relief Deployment)
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a group of people working in the field who blog news, updates from their projects and opinions here.
Sustainable Design Update
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Emerging Sustainable Technology, Design, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology. John Barrie is a principal architect with John Barrie Associates Architects in Ann Arbor, MI. and also Executive Director of the Appropriate Technology Collaborative. In addition to practicing Architecture and Industrial Design, John Barrie has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and an Adjunct faculty member at Washtenaw Community College. John is known for his deep commitment to the principles of sustainable design incorporating concern for social justice, economic development and the creation of human centered structures. John has contributed to the design, specification and construction of environmental projects throughout North America. Recent projects include work with Warner Bros. Studios and the United States Air Force.
Appropriate Technology
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The Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose purpose is “To design, develop, demonstrate and distribute appropriate technological solutions for meeting the basic human needs of low income people in the developing world. ATC works in collaboration with our clients and other nonprofits (NGOs) to create technologies that are culturally sensitive, environmentally responsible and locally repairable in order to improve the quality of life, enhance safety, and reduce adverse impacts on their environment.”
Our design partners are the people and the communities whom we serve. We create long term relationships with our client communities so that we can better understand and design for their particular needs.
Village Earth
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Village Earth empowers communities to sustainably access and manage the resources needed to achieve their vision for the future by working directly with communities as allies, distributing appropriate technology information, as well as providing training, consultation and networking services to individuals, communities and organizations around the globe.
Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
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Helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water. Through a combination of business incubation, education, and outreach, we help people get technology that will better their health and improve their lives.
If you are a typical farmer in a developing country and want a biodigester, hydraulic water pump or other low-cost environmentally friendly technology, there is generally no easy way for you to get one locally. You either have to make one yourself or hope that an infrastructure development NGO comes your way. This is because there are few providers of appropriate technologies in developing countries, and fewer still that serve the rural poor. The AIDG intends to change that and we believe that business incubation is the key.
Be An Eco-Consultant in Your Community
This strikes me as possibly being the modern equivalent of those ads in the back of magazines saying you can make $3000 a month, you send them the $10 and get back a letter describing how to set up a business selling people on making $3000 a month. Anyway, "Ge A Green Irene" has blanketed the Internet lately with advertising extolling the business opportunity of greening our world one home (and office) at a time.
They say: Our Eco-Consultants are independent business women and men who work from their own home or office and are distributors of our eco-consulting services and an array of green products. They are a direct sales company that lets people set up part time or full time businesses. The main product is a "$99 Green Home Makeover conducted in about 60-90 minutes and covers such topics as energy conservation upgrades, energy efficient lighting replacements, water conservation and purity tools, indoor air quality improvements and harmful chemical reduction in the home." There's also a business version of the product lineup.
You'd be working on your own time setting your own hours and being a small business owner. You can hold "Go Green" parties which sounds like the modern day equivalent to Tupperware parties. You don't own inventory, instead the Irene mothership sends directly to your customers. Obviously there is more to this than the makeover, but the makeover is simply the foot in the door through which they sell other products. The eco-consultant would walk around the house and check off a list of things which could be purchased to make the home more green, presumably.
As you can see in the comments below ... "Green Irene has in fact approved by the Board of the DSA (Direct Sellers Association) as a full member. Additionally, we have been approved for Green America's (formerly CoOp America)Green Business Network and we are a proud member of the BBB." These steps demonstrate a commitment for quality business practices.
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Green Irene Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Green Fresno .org
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Green Fresno is an information portal about making Fresno "green". It is about natural resource conservation,renewable energy, walkable city design, growing more trees, sustainable living, and the many folks that support and debate these ideas.
Monday, February 2, 2009
EcoWall
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EcoWall is the premier distributor of Ecolite -- a 'green' wall system made of post-industrial steel and recycled materials. It is a celullar concrete combined with metal studs. It provides an innovative way to cut costs, reduce construction time, and benefit the environment. Ecolite walls are built off-site and delivered as prebuilt walls to the construction site. Thus the construction site has less cleanup required.
EcoWall qualifies for points in four of the LEED rating categories.
Ecolite reduces green-house gas emissions compared to other types of concrete due to the high air content of cellular concrete and the thin cross section of our concrete. Ecolite wall systems are made from recycled cold-formed steel and a light weight proprietary concrete mix. This concrete mix is made up of approximately 25% recycled content, all of which is post-consumer, and at least 25% regional materials, more may be available depending on location of the project. Steel recycled content rates vary, but according to LEED NC 2.2 projects can assume 25% recycled steel content based on average minimums. When using Ecolite, detailed recycled content percentages for steel will be provided for more precise calculations.
Ecolite Concrete USA is a building systems technology company. We license a suite of technologies which enable our licensees to design and fabricate proprietary walls systems for commercial, municipal, and government construction, typically on a large scale. Ecolite's patent pending wall system and proprietary fabrication process enable the rapid production and delivery of walls directly to the job site.
Code Green Coalition
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A collaborative group of individuals, designers, business owners, and Executive Directors of non-profits .. Raise awareness of the personal and collective benefits of living sustainably .. Encourage ecologically - and socially - conscious choices by Triangle residents.
They are based in the Triangle area of North Carolina.
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