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Choosing a water filter

Editor — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:21:12 +0000

Do you know how to choose the right water filter? Learn a bit about what might be in your water and how to find the right filter.

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Why Recycle?

Editor — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:41:12 +0000

4th and 5th graders explain how they tell people about recycling.

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Who’s polluting your ‘hood?

Editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:54:16 +0000

Do you want to know who the top polluters are in your state? Your city? Check out Planet Hazard. These floks did a lovely mashup of EPA reports and Google maps to track the top polluters nationwide and then break them down into easily search-able maps. You can zoom in on your neighborhood and get specific data about a polluter in your area, what they are dumping and quantities.

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The story of stuff

Editor — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:03:38 +0000

Maybe really buying green means not buying at all!

This really is a must-see. The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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Green computing

Editor — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:05:06 +0000

The one laptop per child foundation believes that empowering children in developing nations by providing them with laptops in their schools and networking them with the rest of the world can help these children advance their own societies.

The OLPC Association focuses on designing, manufacturing and distributing XO laptops to children in lesser developed countries.
Besides providing the laptops of course, there must be a program to educate the children and teachers on how to use this as a tool for learning. ULPC formed a team to work with countries to develop their own learning teams. The goal is to help each country develop a deeper understanding and richer practice in using laptops for learning. The first workshops in countries will be in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda and Nigeria during October 2007.

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