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Spend Green: Do Business with the World's Greenest Companies
John Platt, February 12, 2010
You've probably heard the old maxim, "Vote with your wallet." There are a few obvious ways you can go green while spending green -- buying organic foods, for example -- but how do you know if the products you are buying are from a company that behaves responsibly?
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Take 15 Minutes this Weekend to Help Count the Country's Birds
John Platt, February 09, 2010
One of the highlights of my day is watching the dozens of birds that gather in my backyard every morning. This weekend, I'll be watching those birds, then turning to my computer to talk about what I see.
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Your Instant Messages Can Help Save the World
John Platt, February 05, 2010
How many instant messages do you send every day? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? What if each time you sent an IM, you ended up contributing money to fight global warming or protect the environment?
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Five Easy Ways to Use Less Paper
John Platt, February 02, 2010
Are you using too much paper in your job? According to reduce.org, the paperless office is nowhere near reality, and the average office worker uses a shocking 10,000 pages of per ever year. Averaged out to 200 work days, that's 50 sheets of paper every single day!
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Drive Greener with Garmin ecoRoute
John Platt, January 29, 2010
How much gasoline do you use while driving? Do you know the shortest routes, or the ones that will be the most fuel-efficient? New software from GPS-maker Garmin can help you find those answers, and reduce your greenhouse emissions in the process.
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Can This Device Save You 50 Dollars A Year in Energy Costs?
John Platt, January 28, 2010
Your computer -- not to mention all of its many accessories -- may be one of the main energy-users in your home. A simple, $50 device can help you save a lot of that energy -- so much, in fact, that it could pay for itself in the first year.
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Got an Old Cellphone? Make Sure It Gets Refurbished and Reused
John Platt, January 26, 2010
Cell phone providers make it very easy for us to upgrade our phones, and in fact, about half of mobile users do replace our phones every year. But what happens to all of those old phones? According to a recent survey by ABI Research, 92% of old phones end up landfills, even though most of those phones have a lot of life left in them.
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What's the Pollution Like in Your Area? Find Out with Free iPhone App
John Platt, January 22, 2010
Is the air in your city polluted? How about the water? The soil? How much radiation exists around you? Now you can find the answers with the free Pollution iPhone app from A Mobile Future.
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Now is the Time to Apply for a Green Patent
John Platt, January 21, 2010
Got an eco-friendly idea? Then now is the time to get into action and patent it. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is currently offering an accelerated program to approve "green" patents -- but it's only for a limited time, so you'd better act now.
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Help Haiti By Donating Your Old Electronics
John Platt, January 19, 2010
Don't have much cash to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake? Your old electronics (or even your old DVDs) can do some good instead.
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