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A Lively Pair of Flip Flops

Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it? I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...]

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Are E-books Green?

The concept of an e-book makes sense – you have the ability to read hundreds of books, magazines and newspapers on a digital reader, all while saving the more than 20 million trees that are cut down per year to produce books in the U.S. But you are also using energy which is surely generated [...]

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A Fresh Idea on Frozen Food

In the fall of 2007, Contessa Premium Foods opened the first environmentally responsible, LEED-certified frozen food manufacturing plant in world. Known as “Green Cuisine,” the plant is carbon neutral. So, what is LEED? Standing for, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it is a third-party certification program, which regulates design, construction and operation of green buildings. [...]

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Paint Headaches and Toxins: A Safer Alternative

You know the smelly paint fumes that go hand-in-hand with the headaches and dizziness that soon follow after slapping a fresh coat of color on your walls? Yeah, that stench comes from chemicals that are used to create paint, toxins that can affect your health even years after you have finished your do-it-yourself project. But there are [...]

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Anything Freiamt, Germany, Can Do, I Can Do Better

When national leaders discuss the implementation of renewable energy sources to power the entire country, we’re always hit with the problem of scale. It would take wind turbines overrunning the whole of Nevada, chopping up a Thanksgiving worth of birds each day. Or it would take a garden of solar panels covering the entire southwest, [...]

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That’s Downright Trashy Fashion!

While some people shop the likes of Coach and Pottery Barn, other green thinkers are taking advantage of fashion and housewares of another sort – “trashion.” Hailing from creative eco-designers in Inodnesia, trashion is the name given to a new trend where jewelry, clothing and home decorations are made from reused materials to create an item [...]

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