Ben Brophy's Bookmarks Tagged With "environment"
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How to Green Your Office and Stay in the Black
http://www.graphicdefine.org/issue4/greenisblack
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Tips on greening a graphic design company that apply to just about any office.
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NSTAR: NSTAR Green
http://www.nstar.com/residential/customer_information/nstar-green.asp
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NStar (the local electric utility) is going to offer the customers the option of using wind power for en extra 3¢ per kilowatt hour. My current rate is about 12 per, so that about a 25% increase. However, we've taken a lot of steps to conserve ene… More
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Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
http://www.walkscore.com/index.shtml
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Walk Score calculates the walkability of any address. I got an 84 in Cambridge. It will be handy next time we're looking for a new home.
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Imagine Earth without people
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100
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What would happen if all of the people disappeared from earth overnight? Fun thought experiment. [via kottke}
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The Plastic ocean
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml
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This fascinating and disturbing articles covers the huge chunk of the pacific - 2x the size of Texas - that is filling with our discarded plastic. It's freaking me out, but it's important to know about.
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Hybrid Solar House > Home
http://enertia.com/
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The enertia house, I saw this from Davic Pogue's column in the NYT. It uses a convection cycle to circulate air in the house, based on how the earth's atmosphere works.
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Kleercut.Net | Kimberly-Clark and Kleenex are wiping away ancient forests
http://kleercut.net/en/
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I heard about this site from some greenpeace activists on Mass Ave. Ive got some family that works for KC and have kind of mixed feelings. They could definitely do more, but there is clear market data that consumers avoid recycled toilet paper and… More
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Apple - A Greener Apple
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/
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Climate Energy
http://www.climate-energy.com/
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They have a cool furnace that generates electricity while heating your house.
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Reusable vs. Disposable Cups
http://www.ilea.org/lcas/hocking1994.html
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I've seen this argument that disposable cups take so much less energy to produce that they are better for the environment. [Kottke points out](http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/04/13179.html) that that isn't taking the environmental impact of shi… More
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