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• NRDC Names Seattle as America’s Greenest City

  

  The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) has released their ranking of the top 15 greenest American cities in three different categories. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• People + Planet + Profit

  

  You may have noticed a few minor adjustments to the website over the last few weeks as we tinker around with layout, size of the featured posts section, and a... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Protecting the Environment: A Moral Issue, Not a Political One

  

  For whatever reason, environmental advocacy became a politicized, ideological issue. It’s not. The reality is that it’s a human concern. Our wanton consumption... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts

  

  In 2005, 64% of the 109 million U.S. families lived in single-family homes. From 1950 to 2005, the average size of a new U.S. single-family house increased by... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Eco-trek Rolls on to San Francisco and Portland (Video)

  

  It could be said that whether it’s Hollywood or politics, California is often ahead of the curve. Known for it’s progressiveness, sometimes it may even be on a... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: David Orr’s Earth in Mind

  

  Originally published in 1994 during what could possibly be considered the second of three environmental movements to date, David Orr’s Earth in Mind: On... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Art Lebedev Designers Debut Eco-Friendly USB Memory Sticks

  

  Russian design studio, Art Lebedev, recently introduced its version of the disposable thumb drive, called Flashkus. The drives are inexpensive, light and... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado

  

  I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity Update, I Think

  

  The other day we received a comment on a story from September of 2009. The post mentioned the Smart Grid City in Boulder, Colorado. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Coal and Natural Gas Are King

  

  Here is a chart that compares the strictly financial costs of different energy types based on an EIA (Energy and Information Administration) study that looked a... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Xcel Energy’s Solar*Rewards Rebate Partially Reinstated

  

  Last month news of Xcel Energy’s decision to cut the Solar*Rewards rebate (which was first offered five years ago) for solar installations rocked the industry. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Search 500 Billion Words, Gage Interest in the Environment

  

  Here’s a fun little experiment: go to http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ and type in any set of words or phrases separated with commas. Google will then search... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Ski Industry Develops Alternative Energy for Survival

  

  Hunter Sykes is a sustainability consultant with Coldstream Sustainability Group, a 20-year ski industry veteran and the director of the film: Resorting to... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, OUTDOORS, SNOW

• EPA Proposes First-ever Mercury Regulations for Power Plants

  

  In a news release published Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxi... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: US Solar Grows 67%

  

  The U.S. market for solar energy reached $6 billion in 2010, up from $3.6 billion (67%) from the previous year, according to the Solar Energy Industries... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Eco-Trek Rolls on to California

  

  This week the Mercedes-Benz F-CELL Drive Eco-Trek checks out interesting green news along the Hydrogen Highway in California. Watch all episodes here. The bottl... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Carbon Offsets: The Debate Continues

  

  Carbon offsetting is an area of the green economy that has been in the news for sometime now. Economii.com states that “Carbon offsets are used to reduce the... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Solar Power Comes Through for Family in Japan After Earthquake Cuts Power

  

  Usually it is the grid that is left to back up renewable energy when, say, the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. In a counterintuitive twist on that... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Clean Energy Stocks Get a Boost

  

  Despite a down day in the world stock markets yesterday, clean energy saw gains of ten percent or more in some cases. Yesterday we wrote about renewable energy’... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Let’s Set This Straight Once and For All: Climate Change Does Not Cause Tsunamis

  

  Eric touched on this in his earlier piece on renewable energy and disasters: the tsunami that literally erased some towns in Northeastern Japan has nothing to d... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT