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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.
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