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Category Archives: Energy
How to Have a Green Holiday Season
The holidays are just around the corner. It’s coming up on that time of year full of eating, gift giving, candel lighting, family seeing, and decorating. This isn’t only the biggest holiday season of the year, its the time of … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Holidays, Recycling
Tagged Cards, Holiday Season, holidays, Keeper of the Home, Lights
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Is the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Really Green?
The Christmas tree at Rockefeller has green pine needles, but is it really green? In 2007, the Christmas tree went environmentally green for the first time in its history since 1933. Today, the management of Rockefeller Center continues to market … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Holidays, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas Tree, Environment, Green, Rockefeller Center
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Shedding Light on Energy Reform
We’ve been hearing about low energy emitting light bulbs for years, but until now, the US has made no real effort to promote them. However by the year 2014, the United States plans to eliminate “most traditional incandescent lighting” in … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Technology
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Increased Productivity, Economic Benefits from Lower Pollution, Study Shows
The Republican perennial assault on the already underfunded, inept Environmental Protection Agency usually calls for looser regulations by spreading the scare of economic strain and job loss as a result of stricter ones. A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows lower … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, cockroaches, Disease, Energy, Pollution, Science
Tagged air standards, EPA, numbers, ozone, pollution, productivity, Republican Jihad
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BP All Set to Drill in the Gulf Again
British Petroleum will be drilling seven new exploratory wells in the Gulf of Mexico next year, Green blog reports. The Obama administration gave the oil giant a drilling permit last week, saying “BP has met all of the enhanced safety requirements that we have … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Birds, Energy, Nature, Pollution, Shark, Technology, Wildlife
Tagged BP Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon accident, Gulf of Mexico, Obama Administration
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Climate Justice Day At Occupy Wall Street
Demonstrators in Zuccotti Park hosted workshops and “teach-ins” on sustainable economics and fracking this Sunday for the first Climate Justice Day of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Grist reports. Two weeks ago, Grist had asked their readers what they thought about Occupy Wall Street, and they … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Education, Energy
Tagged Climate Justice Day, Grist readers, Occupy Wall Street, teach-ins
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Seven Recycled Products that could be part of your Car
Car companies are jumping on the sustainability bandwagon. Several car companies are incorporating recycled goods as part of the manufacturing of their vehicles. Ford, Toyota, Mazda, GM, Chevy, Honda and Nissan are the leading companies in this recycling revolution. Did … Continue reading
Brooklyn Bridge Park Goes Sustainable
Beautiful Earth Group is bringing sustainability to Brooklyn Bridge Park. The organization is responsible for the opening of the New York Center for Sustainable Energy (NYCSE) at Pier 1 in the park. NYCSE is the first net zero educational center … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Design, Education, Energy, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Beautiful Earth Group, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Market Watch, New York, New York City, NYC, NYCSE
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A living, breathing metropolis
Scientists in England are hard at work developing building materials that could not only reduce harmful carbon emissions, but actually use chemicals to convert CO2 in the surrounding air into benign substances, keeping them out of the Earth’s atmosphere. The … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Energy, Pollution, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, carbon emissions
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US Pro Sports Go Green
In a duel effort to cut costs and repercussions on the environment, many United States professional sports teams and organizations have been making changes to green-ify their arenas, stadiums, courts and race tracks. Baseball teams are installing solar canapes and … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Recycling
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