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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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Rolling Out the Green Carpet

The Teen Choice Awards took place over the weekend and usually, I don’t pay attention to that particular award show. But this year, advertisements for the show grabbed my attention. The tag for the TCAs was “So Teen, So Green, So FOX.” The teen part and the FOX part are obvious, but the green not [...]

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Online Eco-Activism: Worth it?

The internet has been hailed as a godsend for organizing and activism, and while environmental presence is certainly strong in online communities such as Facebook, it begs the question: what, exactly, do most of these groups do beyond publicly professing some aspect of their convictions? Take Facebook. A simple ‘environmental’ keyword search in Facebooks’ category ‘groups’ [...]

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Project Green-way

On last week’s episode of Project Runway (which Bravo seems to have on heavy rotation and should be easily re-watchable), the contestants were challenged to create a “green” cocktail dress. Designers were instructed to use materials that are environmentally conscious and derived from natural materials. As a result, most pieces were constructed from organic cotton [...]

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