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iPhone’s Green Track Record Will Make You See Red

April 21, 2011

A neatly designed chart designed by Geekaphone condenses the iPhone’s impact on the environment and the people who manufacture it in poor countries. Technorati Tags: iPhone, smartphones Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some…

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Cowboys Stadium One of Top 10 Green Stadiums

February 7, 2011

Everyone is talking about Super Bowl 45 today: the national anthem fiasco, the best and worst adverts and the celebrity shenanigans. As a green blog we’d like to add another point to the the Super Bowl buzz: how green stadiums across the country are. The Cowboys Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, appears at number [...]

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Bay Area gets its first network of renewable fuel stations

September 6, 2010

Last week Bay Area in California saw the launch of a network of renewable fuel stations that will include 30 new stations by the end of the year. The network will be operated by Propel Fuels in a partnership with the state government, CALSTART and East Bay Clean Cities. Besides, 75 new stations are expected [...]

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Dispatch from the Amazon: Can extracting oil and gas in the rainforest be green?

July 24, 2010

The 400-plus-mile plane journey between Manaus and Urucu is like an overture to a green opera. From the airplane you gaze in awe at the vastness of the Amazon forest, a sea of trees that lies quietly and powerfully on the ground below, looking eternal as the earth itself. It’s a feeling of amazement as [...]

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Deforestation: a key environmental issue

November 14, 2009

The preservation of the world’s remaining forests is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Forests are also home to most of the world’s wildlife as well as some of the remaining indigenous populations. Besides, the felling of trees releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and wreaks havoc with weather [...]

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