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Snapshots of Summer, Halfway Through

Bethany Meyer | Posted 09.23.2012 | Parents
Read More: Jerry Sandusky, Beach Boot Camp, Aurora Shooting, Indiana Jones, Sun Chips, Pinterest, Legos, Party Rock Anthem, Nutella, Parents News
Bethany Meyer

Summer is half over. The little lessons I've learned have become memories. Snapshots in my head of perfect moments with my kids. Still young... and beautiful... and unaffected... and innocent.

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Green News Report: March 1, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Co2, Green Jobs, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Scott Walker, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, US Chamber of Commerce, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Koch Brothers, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Green News, Sustainability, Koch Industries, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Supreme Court, 350.Org, Australia, Fracking, West Virginia, Atlanta, Wikileaks, Don Blankenship, Hybrid Cars, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Tim Dechristopher, Chevron, Bill Mckibben, Sun Chips, Pcbs, Ecuador, Commerce Department, Arctic Sea Ice, Toxic Chemicals, Deepwater Drilling, China, Upper Big Branch Mine, Desalination, James Inhofe, Factory Farms, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Electricity, Anonymous, Privatization, Interior Department, Massey Energy, Arctic, Water, Glenn Beck, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Dems call...

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So Who Roots for a Chip Bag, Anyway?

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Green Innovation, Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Technology, Fast Fail Innovation, Potato Chips, Sun Chips, Green News
Marc Stoiber

The Sun Chips bag countered the perception that green was the domain of the privileged. Anyone could have it. Anyone could compost it. And anyone could feel better about their trash because of it.

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SunChips Bags Are Too Noisy: Yet Another Reason We Suck

Jessica Olien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sunchips, Noisy Sunchips, Libraries, Packaging, Eco-Friendly, Biodegradable, Sun Chips, Frito-Lay, Green News
Jessica Olien

With all of the country's problems, not to mention the world's legitimate packaging problems, this is the one issue that consumers decide take into their own hands?

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The Death of the Biodegradable Bag

Patrick Vergara | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sustainability, Sun Chips, Invisible Hand, Environmentalism, Green Packaging, Biodegradable, Frito-Lay, Noise, Green News
Patrick Vergara

I was stunned to hear that Frito-Lay was discontinuing use of biodegradable Sun Chips bags due to consumer complaints related to the new material's particularly noisy crinkling.

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'Sorry But I Can't Hear You Over This Sun Chips Bag': Compostable Packaging Irks Snackers

The Wall Street Journal | By SUZANNE VRANICA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Sun Chips Loud Bag, Sun Chips Bag, Green-Packaging, Compostable-Waste, Sun Chips, Sun Chips Packaging, Home News

Frito-Lay makes a lot of noise marketing its Sun Chips snacks as "green." They are cooked with steam from solar energy, the message goes. But its la...

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Greensburg, Kansas: From Green-town to Clean-town

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Project Explore, Baking Soda, Eco-Environment, Donor Fatigue, Twilight Theatre, U.S. Department of Energy, Eco-Innovation, Green Economy, Usda, National Renewable Energy Lab, Country Music, PF Waterworks, Dorothy Gale, Twister, Vegetable Gardens, Fema, Leed, TADgreen Inc, Green Cleaners, Spirit of Greensburg Committee, Clorox Company, Man-Made-Disasters, White Vinegar, Clorox, Green Economies, Survivors, Ralph Appelbaum, Green Cleaning, Cooling, Small Business, Caroma USA, Clorox-Company, Bauer Power, Sichuan Provence, Kansas Housing Resources Corporation, Fund-Raising, Salt, Small Businesses, Leed-Certified-Home, Eco-Toxins, General Motors, Discovery Channel, Greensburg/GreenTown, Ground-Source Cooling, Sustainable German Technology, Borax, Meadowlark House, Global-Economy, OCW Foundation, AT&T, Rebuilding, Samoa Tsunami, China Earthquake, Education and Outreach, Clean Infrastructure, Outdoor Eco-Environments, Environmentally Conscious, Pollutants, Greensburg Kansas, Volcanic Ash, The Green Economy, Usde, Natural Home Magazine, Global Economy, German Technology, Discovery Communications, The Wizard of Oz, 9/11, Outreach, Eco-Friendly, Silo Eco-Home, Pollutant, Kansas, USDA-Rural Development, Office Depot, Sustainable Technology, Eco Friendly, EF Scale, OneCleanWorld Foundation, Big Well Museum, Environmental Sustainability, Sun Chips, Enhanced Fujita, Advocacy, Big Green Box, Fund Raising, One Clean World Foundation, Sterling-Publishing, Green-Economy, Sears, Outdoor Eco-Environment, Mother Earth News, EF5 Tornado, Natural-Home-Magazine, 24-Hour News Cycle, Environmental-Sustainability, Commercial Cleanser, Education, Green Infrastructure, Tsunami, Green Dwellings, Kiowa County Commons, Solar Hot Water, Wind Turbines, Tornado, Greensburg-Kansas, Conscious Living, Vinegar, Kiowa County, Kansas Tornado, Toxins, Disaster-Victims, Schmidt/Manlier Family, Green Buildings, Richard Haymes, Leed-Certified Home, Public Health, Greensburg 2020, Tropical Cyclone, Eco-Home, Commercial Cleaners, Sterling Publishing, Kiowa County United, Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing, George Jones, Green Industry, Rooftop Gardens, Fundraising, Cleaning, Viega, ef5, Ocwf, Bnim, Green News
Michael DeJong

After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.

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