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Gifts for the Sea

Julie Packard | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Gandhi, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Funding Non-Profits, Nature, Gifts From the Sea, Julie Packard, Ocean Acidification, Plastic-Pollution, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, Disposable Plastics, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Bags, Carbon Footprint, Connect With Nature, Green Living, Green News

A half-century ago, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote Gifts from the Sea, bestseller in which she described what we as individuals can take away from our times of quiet reflection along the shore.

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Green Gifts That Keep Giving

Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Laptop, Backpacks, Hitachi, Green, Christmas, Eco-Friendly, Trees, Cell Phone, Pc, Recyled, German, Wear Your Music, External Hard Drive, Bracelet, Adapters, My Dutch Bike, Shopping, Central America, Plastic Bottles, Joan Jett, T-Shirt, Brazil, Sierra Magazine, Sap, Style, Jack Johnson, Silver, Bicycle, Gifts, Coasters, Eric Clapton, Charity, Tee, Chiclero, MP3 Player, Recycled, Battery Pack, Jewelry, Guide, Agate, Fashion, Bike, Amsterdam, Glee Gum, Voltaic, Holidays, Mac, Hemp, Solar, Gracious Home, Rockers, Packaging, Aluminum, Musicians, Sugar, Guitar Strings, Dutch, Hanukkah, Bags, Environment, Fashionista, Ben Lee, Bamboo, Electra, Rablabs, Gramicci, Simpletech, Green News

Shopping for picky loved ones is difficult enough. Factor in your commitment to eco-sensitive products, and a holiday shopping mission can become as daunting as an unaided ascent up El Cap.

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The Merits of a Plas-Tax Over a Bo-Tax

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Health Care, Gay Marriage, Botox, Judith Warner, National Organization for Marriage, Bo-Tax, Health Care Bill Cosmetic Surgery, National Organization for Women, Stupak Amendment, Now, Cosmetic Surgery Tax, Cosmetic Surgery, Joy Behar, Bottled Water, Politics News

The Bo-Tax is being touted as a way to help solve the health care budget crisis, presumably because a very small percentage of cosmetic procedures are covered under some insurance plans (unfortunately, not mine).

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CU-Boulder Considers Banning Plastic Bottles

Daily Camera | Brittany Anas | Posted 12.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: CU Boulder, Sustainability, Plastic Bottles, University of Colorado, Denver News

The University of Colorado's greatest green minds came together for a conference Thursday to discuss sustainability projects, including a plan to phas...

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Coke Debuts Plant-Based Plastic Bottles

inhabitat.com | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Bioplastics, Plastic, Coca-Cola, Sustainability, Plastic Bottles, Coke, Green Technology, Plantbottle, Green News

[Coke] has announced the global rollout of its PlantBottle, a plastic bottle made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and 30% plant based materi...

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Cans: A Source Of BPA

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Cans, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Plastic Bottles, Health, Living News

Most people are probably exposed to more BPA from eating canned food or drinking canned soda than from drinking out of a polycarbonate bottle.

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So. Cal. Chronicles - Redemption For $28.69

Jane Minogue | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Aluminum Cans, Plastic Bottles, California Bottle Bill, Waste Management, Recycled Materials, California, Green Living, Jane Minogue, Living News

It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.

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Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Green Building, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Plastic Bottles, Coal, Barbara Boxer, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Logging, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

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Recycling Plastic: What a Waste

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental, Recycle, Styrene, Gyre, Single Use Plastics, Plastic-Pollution, Bpa, Reuse, Body Burden, Birth Defects, Cancer, Plastic Bottles, Petrochemical, Phthalates, Green Chemistry, Sups, Green News

Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.

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Water Bottle Deposits To Start This Fall In NY

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Water Bottles, Plastic Water Bottles, Water Bottle Deposit, Water Bottle Deposits, Judith Enck, Gov. Paterson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., James Rogers, Poland Spring, Plastic Bottles, Glass Bottles, Drink Bottles, Bottles, Bottle Deposit, Bottle Recycling, Recycling, Recycle, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Mandatory deposits on water bottles are expected to start this fall in New York, while the Paterson administration considers chan...

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Can SIGG Salvage Its Brand After BPA?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Steve Wasik, Bpa, Sigg, Bisphenol A, Water Bottles, Sigg Bottles, Plastic Bottles, Sigg and BPA, Green News

Steve Wasik, chief executive officer of SIGG, has made an astonishing admission: the company's aluminum water bottles manufactured before August 2008, were made with epoxy resin that contains bisphenol A (BPA).

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Eco Etiquette: Roommate Recycling Woes; Guests vs. Mosquitoes

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Plastic Bottles, Eco Etiquette, Natural Insect Repellents, Green Living, Bottled Water, Eco Advice, Green News

Dear Eco Etiquette: I have a roommate who insists on buying bottled water. I've sent her various statistics and pictures about how harmful the produc...

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Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Trash, Plastic Waste, Tap Water, Plastic Water Bottles, Environment, Trash, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Pollution, Bottled Water, Green News

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

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A Kick in the Career: My Interview with Sustainable Dave

Thomas Stern | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Composting, Plastic Bottles, Recycling, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Green Living, Corporations, Green News

A conversation with someone who clearly walks the talk.

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David de Rothschild's Fantastic Plastic Bottle Boat

Grist | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Recycle Plastic, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Plastic Bottles, Environment, Green, Plastic, Reuse, Reuse Plastic Bottles, David De Rothschild, Green News

The Plastiki is the latest project of British environmentalist and polar adventurer David de Rothschild, the 31-year-old scion of the famous banking f...

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About BPA: Do You Feel Lucky?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Endocrine Disruptor, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Cancer, Bpa Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Dangers of Bpa, Green News

BPA, a synthetic estrogen as well as a plastics hardener, disrupts the endocrine system and causes a growing list of chronic, often permanent disorders in lab animals.

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California Takes On Plastic Bottles Made With BPA

Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Neurological Disorders, Infertility, Bisphenol A, Bottles, Food-Storage Containers, Plastic Bottles, Obesity, Sippy Cups, Sports Bottles, Polycarbonate Plastic, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bpa, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Green News

It's the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scut...

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Bisphenol A: The Goods on a Bad Plastic

Nena Baker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bisphenol A, Food and Drug Administration, Diethylstilbestrol, National Institute for Environomental Health Sciences, Exposure to Chemicals, Women's Health, Health, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Green News

The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.

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The Plastics "Out There" and "In Here"

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Environment, Waste, Plastics, Plastic, Plastic Waste, Plastic Bags, Green News

A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.

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Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, North Pacific Gyre, Recycle, Pacific-Garbage-Patch, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Plastic Bottles, Plasticgyre, Green News

The "away" of our throwaway society turns out to be, in part, a giant patch of broken plastic bits swirling around the Pacific Gyres in an area that has been dubbed "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

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Tap, Tap, Tap Water

Ina Pinkney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Trattoria No. 10., Dan Rosenthal, Plastic Bottles, Bottled Water, INA's, Restaurants Bottled Water, Tap Water, Food, Bottled Water Industry, Green Living, Chicago News

For the last three decades, prominent restaurants have been used as a vehicle to promote this sadly wasteful product. And just like consumers, many of us have been lead to believe that what's in the bottle is somehow safer than what is in the tap.

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Companies Voluntarily Banish BPA From Bottles

sciam.com | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Bpa, Bisphenol, Personal Health, Health, Living News

As politicos bandy about the issue of banning bisphenol A (BPA), the hard-plastic additive that's been linked to a host of health problems, several co...

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Recycled Light Has Never Been So Beautiful...

Hillary Newman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Green Living, Sculpture, Art, Environmental, Recycled Art, Green, Ecosystems, Environment, Eco-Friendly, Environmentalism, Light Fixtures, Plastic Bottles, Green News

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What's Worse than Chemo? A Common Toxin that Renders It Less Effective

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Estrogen, Baby Bottles, Breast Cancer, Health, Chemotherapy, Plastic Bottles, Bpa, Endocrine Disruptor, Breast Cancer Treatment, Bispheno-A, Green News

Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.

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Parents and Citizens Should Take Advantage of EPA's Comment Period On Perchlorate in Drinking Water

Christine Escobar | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Safety of Perchlorate in Water, EPA November Public Comments Perchlorate, Environmental Working Group Perchlorate, Safe Tap Water, Safe Drinking Water Supply, Green Parent Chicago, Children and Safe Drinking Water, EPA and Perchlorate, Safe Drinking Water, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Green News

Perchlorate is a chemical used by the Defense Department for testing missiles and rockets. Most perchlorate contamination is believed to be the result of defense and aerospace activities.

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