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How Svpply, Pinterest, and Digital Bookmarking Reduce Wasteful Consumerism

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:58:59 PST

Svpply.com/ChrisTackett/Screen capture Recently, two new digital bookmarking services - Pinterest and Svpply - have become popular tools for people to save, share and find photos of products,...

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A NYC School Teams Up with Columbia to Build a Rooftop Garden and Classroom

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:04:27 PST

© Alex Davies Although PS 84, a New York City elementary school on the Upper West Side, is just a few blocks from Central Park, its teachers and parents have long been frustrated by the students'...

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5 Online Sources for Local, Organic Food Delivery

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:23:37 PST

Dinner Series/CC BY 2.0 While ordering a box of fresh produce through a local farm in your Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) network is a fantastic way to have organic delivered, it's not the...

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Hold the French Fries! School Lunch Just Got Healthier with USDA Ruling

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:56:07 PST

USDAgov/CC BY 1.0 What makes you fat? School lunch. But it just got healthier. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled new rules today for the National School Lunch program that...

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McDonald’s discovers social media can backfire when people hate you

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:11:16 PST

When McDonald's tried to launch the #McDStories Twitter campaign, they clearly envisioned a bunch of fond memories from Big Mac lovers, interspersed with behind-the-scenes glimpses into the...

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Modified Turntable Reads Tree-Rings as Music

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:59:27 PST

Bartholomäus Traubeck/Screen capture Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze, or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree's character may best be described as 'the strong...

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Urban Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:50:36 PST

Depave/Video screen capture Urban areas are great for increasing density and reducing collective resource use, but they're not quite perfect. The asphalt that covers so much of cities retains heat...

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Obama: Open 75% More US Land for Gas & Oil Drilling, "Double Down" on Clean Energy

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:59:48 PST

White House/Public Domain Obama's third State of the Union address went pretty much the way everyone thought it would (see my predictions here). The president established the economic 'fairness'...

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A Water Bottle Story

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:22:58 PST

Photo Credit: CafePress.com Should the United States National Parks Service ban the use of disposable water bottles as a means to save money and protect our national parks? Yes may seem like an...

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Programmed to be Fat?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:15:20 PST

We all know that being overweight is the result of various factors – diet, exercise, lifestyle choices, “bad genes”… but a documentary recently aired on CBC (a Canadian TV network), “Programmed...

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Why the food "revolution" lasted one year in the US

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:50:47 PST

From the show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Jamie Oliver attempts and fails miserably in trying to convince a group of American kids that consuming processed chicken nuggets are bad. My students...

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Deep impact: The toll your protein takes on the Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:33:11 PST

A field of soybeans -- most of which are grown for animal feed. (Photo by Carol Vanhook.) Now that we’ve touched on how much protein we need, let’s talk about how the production process behind high...

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One-Year Time-Lapse of a Bike Decomposing On a NYC Street

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:23:15 PST

What happens when you chain a bike -- loaded up with bells and baskets and all the trimmings -- to a pole on a busy SoHo street in NYC, and then leave it there for a year? Life-Cycle is just such...

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Environmentalists see reason for alarm in GOP race

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:47:59 PST

Four years after the GOP's rallying cry became "drill, baby, drill," environmental issues have barely registered a blip in this Republican presidential primary. That's likely to change as the race...

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Obama sings his support for Green causes

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:39:08 PST

I guessed from his first campaign ad that President Obama was going to be vocal about clean energy this election, but we didn't realize he was going to go full-on Green: I saw someone refer to...

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"Junk Castle" Is Made from $500 Worth of Trash

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:19:55 PST

© David Patterson The Junk Castle is an eye-catching building. Its brights colors, turrets and spires are reminiscent of a Disney castle- but made out of junkyard scraps, not shining brick. Built...

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FarmPlate Creates Nation's Largest Sustainable, Ethical Foods Directory Online

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:14:36 PST

FarmPlate/Screen capture Imagine being able to tailor Google to search specifically for sustainable food suppliers or restaurants and socially-minded companies in your area. That's pretty much...

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Artist Knits Recycled Newspapers into Beautiful Clothing

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:05:17 PST

© ivano vitali Italian artist, ecologist and sculptor Ivano Vitali brings together two favourite themes: knitting and recycling. And he does it all with old newspaper. Make him an honourary...

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Kansas prison wins WasteWise award - only winner in the US this year

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:58:50 PST

Inmates recycling mattresses at Hutchinson. The Kansas Department of Corrections prison at Hutchinson has received the WasteWise State Government Partner of the Year Award from the US...

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‘Just Label It’: New video from the Food, Inc. guy

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:41:49 PST

Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner has a new project about labeling of GMO foods. This one's a short video, not a feature film, so it'll only take three minutes of your life to check it out: ...

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Spring Back Now Recycles What Landfills & Other Recyclers Don't Want: Mattresses

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:33:25 PST

TheGiantVermin/CC BY 1.0 Ever think about what happens to an old mattress once you throw it away? Mattresses have plenty of materials that can be reused, but most recyclers don't want them....

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State of Green Business Report Takes Temperature of E-Waste, Energy Efficiency

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:29:06 PST

© GreenBiz.com GreenBiz.com has just released their 5th annual State of Green Business report and the news... well the news isn't necessarily good. You can bet you're in for a disappointing read...

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Recycling Orchestra Plays Mozart With Garbage

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:21:03 PST

Sonidos de la Tierra/Video screen capture It may be a long way from Paraguay's sprawling garbage dumps to the stately concert halls of Europe, but for one group of talented youths the distance...

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Heal the Bay. Protect what you love. Green Pug turns Blue.

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:30:29 PST

Trash into treasure... Loving Puglet's Earthy Style!

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Bike Sharing: It's Global City Cycling's Gateway Drug

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Huber - http://www.ecologyrunner.com) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:46:48 PST

Metro LLC/Screen capture Washington D.C.'s Capitol Bikeshare started small in 2010, and with little fanfare. It wasn't as large as Paris' Vélib bike share system, or as immediately popular as...

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