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I have my pet peeves.  I really hate roller-bags, people not walking down escalators, and discovering that Flex Fuel has been around for over 20 years and nobody bothered to implement it.  My feelings are not limited to Flex Fuel, but all abandoned fuel economy technologies all together.  The fact that a nation as [...]

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Responding to the frustratingly slow federal response to climate change , the mayor of Houston revealed his plans to slash the city’s carbon emissions. Houston’s dense concentration of industry, heavy dependence on cars, and weather, make the southern city into one of the nation’s smoggiest. Mayor Bill White’s target emission plan would reduce greenhouse [...]

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Look at how gorgeous these TOMS wrap boots look: Recently we did a feature called~ TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow, Giving Gifts to the Poor as You Shop … and their amazing cause to bring shoes to poor children in Africa. Now we are back on this topic because they’ve been nominated for the Cooper [...]

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Ecotextile News is a business-to-business magazine dedicated to the production of sustainable fashion materials. Ready to ride the green waves with everyone else, they get pretty excited about innovative green fibers. Recently they announced a new project in Kathmandu on the production of nettle fibre . The setting is the foothills of the Himalayas. [...]

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This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry. I mentioned before in this blog that the gym and spa industry is one of the main buyers of sport bottles. It makes [...]

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