This latest giveaway is for a Solio Hybrid Solar Charger that charges up your small gadgets using only the power of the sun. BuyGreen was generous to provide one of these to give away to one lucky reader of The Good Human, and the time has come to announce the winner. Out of 53 emails, #5 was chosen by Random.org, so the email entry from Dave W. is the winner! I will be notifying you by email for your mailing address, Dave W., so please be sure to get back to me with that. Congratulations and enjoy your Solio charger! If you didn’t win, don’t fret - I have some more cool giveaways coming up soon so stay tuned.

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And The Winner Of The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Is…

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If you haven’t done so yet, PLEASE consider donating just $1 (4 quarters! 10 dimes!) to our charity drive. It ends on Wednesday and we need your votes and your $1 donation for such great charities. Thanks!

More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday. At least 16,928 species are threatened with extinction, including nearly one-third of amphibians, more than one in eight birds and nearly a quarter of mammals.

When it comes to climate change–the defining environmental issue of of our era — Wal-Mart is moving in the wrong direction. …The problem is that all the good things that Wal-Mart is doing — increasing its use of renewable energy, driving efficiency in individual stores, improving its fleet operations and pushing up its recycling rate — are offset by the fact that the company is adding more stores and selling more stuff.

You’ve probably read in the news that the House has narrowly approved President Obama’s climate change bill. It’s often my knee-jerk reaction to support any measure to reduce our nation’s carbon footprint, but as responsible news gatherers, it’s our duty to examine all sides of an issue before forming an opinion.

At Lighter Footstep, we’ve always taken the greenness of bike transport as a given. But if you’re just getting started — or perhaps trying to convince an employer that bicycle commuting is a good thing — we’ve rounded up a dozen reasons to leave that car in the driveway and start covering pavement on two wheels. Let’s ride!

Peter King at Vermont Tiny Houses will be offering a tiny house building workshop on July 11th and 12th, 2009. He’ll be teaching tiny house design and basic construction skills; all experience levels are welcome. The class will build a 12′ by 16′ tiny house with a loft and a 12/12 gable roof. Most of the lumber will be pre-cut and ready for assembly so participants will get to see a complete tiny house go up in two days.

elephantjournal.com founder Waylon Lewis interviews Michael Pollan re: how to communicate “green” to the masses, why he eats meat, GMOs, cancer, diet, Swine Flu & Michelle Obama’s organic garden. If you haven’t read Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” yet, I highly recommend doing so!

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 124.

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The key to being truly eco-friendly is to only buy what you need to live; but we all know that everyone also buys some things that they want. And there really isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, as we are human and we want nice things in our lives. But it’s when people buy way more than they need, using more than their fair share of resources, that it can have a negative effect on the rest of us. However, could this new focus on recycling everything actually be increasing our consumption of “stuff”, just because it is supposedly recyclable in the end? Everything from plates to electronics to houses to cars is being marketed as “green” and “recyclable”…so are we buying more of it because it feels OK to do so?

Photo by Dano

An amazing amount of effort and raw materials goes into everything in our society, so cutting down on consumption goes a lot further in cleaning up our world than recycling does. I am not saying that recycling is bad; in fact, I wish more of our “stuff” could be recycled. But I do worry that the mass-marketed green movement is encouraging some people to consume even more in the name of being eco-friendly. What do you think?

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Does Recycling Give Us An Excuse To Over-Consume?

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They also ship for free no matter how much the shoes cost! So if you need some new shoes and are looking for some new Eco-Sneaks, check out their clearance sale. If you don’t need new shoes, then don’t buy any - consumption for consumption’s sake is not exactly green!

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Simple Shoes Clearance Sale - Now 50-85% Off.

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