Dave Burdick is Green editor at the Huffington Post. He has lived in three timezones at least two times each. Follow him on Twitter!

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GoDaddy Wants You To Know: Tuvalu Is Sinking

Posted April 30, 2009 | 05:19 PM (EST)


I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger demographic has been abuzz with talk about this little phenomenon:

When you type in a domain name -- to check its availability -- and select the extension ".tv,"...

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Obama's First 100 Green Days

8 Comments | Posted April 29, 2009 | 08:00 AM (EST)


Barack Obama: The first ______ president.

Can we put the word "green" in that blank? Hard to say, so early. But we may be off to a pretty good start. When Obama was elected president, some environmentalists believed it signaled the dawning of a new, green era. Others pointed to...

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Low-Flow Showerhead: A Low-Stress Way Of Cutting Back

4 Comments | Posted April 27, 2009 | 06:00 PM (EST)


Here's the easiest go-green effort I've never done: install a low-flow showerhead.

So the people at Niagara Conservation were kind enough to send me an Earth Massage Showerhead to try out. It's something I should have done a long time ago. It's a 30-second fix and can save a...

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Earth Day Movies: 19 Environmentally-Themed Flicks To Celebrate With

Posted April 18, 2009 | 10:05 AM (EST)


There are many ways to celebrate Earth Day -- planting trees, attending rallies -- but a nice, low-key way to go would be to turn off everything in your home except the TV and watch a movie about the environment.

So, for your own perusal and for mine, I present...

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Music Videos Featuring Bikes: Top 15

14 Comments | Posted March 24, 2009 | 10:04 AM (EST)


I love a good music video and I'm excited for more pleasant bike weather, so what better way to celebrate both than by finding a bunch of good music videos featuring bikes?

I've picked these top five based on a highly scientific consideration of style, music, humor and a...

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Green Your St. Patrick's Day Partying

19 Comments | Posted March 16, 2009 | 05:01 PM (EST)


Well, St. Patrick's Day is upon us. Can you think of a better time to throw a green party? Nope! You can't. So here are some fun and easy ways to get started:

1. Drink local beer
It's probably available down the street from you -- and don't tell...

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Green Beer, Greener Beer

19 Comments | Posted February 3, 2009 | 08:48 AM (EST)


Green Inc. this morning has a piece on New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, Colo. -- unfortunately headlined "Brewer Learns Lesson About Green Marketing." The story goes like this:

New Belgium started buying wind offsets in 1999, then noticed that people liked that. They continued to increase...

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Solar Laptop Bag Forces Me Up A Scary, Rusty Ladder

4 Comments | Posted December 17, 2008 | 12:35 PM (EST)


If you live in New York, you might have seen something interesting showing up on people's backs lately: solar panels. It's not common and it's certainly not a trend, but backpacks and laptop bags with solar panels exist and they're in use. Isn't that somewhat impressive on its own?

I...

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"Quantum of Solace" Green Review (with Spoilers)

Posted November 14, 2008 | 05:27 PM (EST)


WARNING: If you have not seen "Quantum of Solace," read no further. I will spoil a plot point or two in the words below. Go check out a roundup of spoiler-free Quantum of Solace reviews.

Let me start by saying that I was told to go see the...

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"Whale Wars" Show Delivers Green, Vegan Pirate Action

Posted November 6, 2008 | 07:20 PM (EST)


When I first saw the name "Whale Wars," I thought to myself, "this had better be about whales fighting each other. Then I saw the trailer and I was pretty impressed despite the fact that no whales fought one another.

Much more sadly and less whimsically, it's about whales unable...

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The Bailout in Barney Frank Videos

Posted November 6, 2008 | 05:42 PM (EST)


I still have friends asking me about the major events of the bailout -- what happened, why did it matter? -- and it occurred to me that not everybody had been glued to CNBC throughout the crisis. About the same time, someone said to me that they loved, for whatever...

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Why Haven't You Been To The Animals Page Yet?

Posted October 23, 2008 | 03:13 PM (EST)


This is a quick one for you, dear readers. Consider this a gift amid a roller-coaster economy, the coming cold and ClothingGate.

Have you seen the Huffington Post Animals Big News page?

As you likely know, the Huffington Post has pages that aggregate all of the news on...

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Playing with a Fuel Cell Remote Control Car

Posted October 6, 2008 | 05:56 PM (EST)


So I just played with a solar-powered, remote-control car. It actually runs on hydrogen as its primary source of power.

It's called H2Go, and it calls itself "the world's first hydrogen powered radio control car." The future! We're in it! Look out!

Obviously, it was my duty as a responsible...

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Can Alec Baldwin Fix The Economy? (No.)

Posted September 30, 2008 | 05:04 PM (EST)


Sometime last week my friend, Noah Garfinkel, said he just wished that Alec Baldwin would be on CNBC in character talking about the economy because it would make him feel better. He didn't have the option, by the way, of not watching CNBC, because he was crashing on my...

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Steve Ballmer Pictures And Video: A Visual Guide To The Microsoft CEO

Posted September 29, 2008 | 06:09 PM (EST)


Why don't people recognize a really rich, important, wacky guy in charge of a huge, modern corporation, and who can be counted on to take a great, weird photograph?

Only one of Microsoft's early honchos had any business experience at all, and while Bill Gates and Paul Allen made the...

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I Met A Why Guy Today

Posted September 25, 2008 | 11:13 PM (EST)


Tom Kostigen, author of You Are Here, an environmental book with an unusual approach, took the time to stop by HuffPost Green's New York office this Thursday. Kostigen is on a lengthy book tour and will soon be in Sevilla, Spain, talking to world business leaders with the

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Tough To Swallow The New, Pill-Shaped Chevy Volt

Posted September 16, 2008 | 12:54 PM (EST)


Though the photos had been leaked before, GM just officially sent out, far and wide, new images of the much-hyped Chevy Volt.

The electric car, on which much of GM's future is pinned, was originally shown off with an aggressive, race-car looking design that reminded me of our friend Hank...

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The Occasional Vegetarian: Freaking Out My Grandmother

Posted September 15, 2008 | 03:12 PM (EST)


"Certain death," 90 mph winds, phone outages and everything else Hurricane Ike brought to Houston couldn't deter my Texan grandmother from reading a recent blog post I made announcing a new dietary decision:

One day a week, I'm giving up meat.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has...

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"Drill, Baby, Drill" Remix Contest at Wired Science

Posted September 6, 2008 | 03:04 PM (EST)


In recognition of the baffling popularity of the chant "Drill, baby, drill" at the Republican National Convention, Wired Science has put out a call for creatively remixed videos involving the chant:

In the spirit of a thousand "Don't taze me, bro!" remixes, Wired Science is proud to announce the...
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Craig Newmark's Break From A Seven-Day Work Week

Posted August 28, 2008 | 11:44 AM (EST)


Craig Newmark (you may have heard of his list) is blogging at the Democratic National Convention, working seven days a week and looking forward to OneWebDay, a celebration of the Internet's ability to bring people together.

Still, a few highly-trained professionals managed to capture Craig and subject him...

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