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ZapRoot: Google Causes Global Warming?

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:29:08 +0000

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This week at ZapRoot: Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time? The recycling market has gone bust. And check out “That’s Just Weird.”

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Great Ideas for Green Fund-Raising

Shirley Siluk Gregory — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:37:03 +0000

Forget the bake sales and door-to-door holiday wrapping paper sales: the Berkeley, California-based Green Schools Initiative has assembled a fantastic list of healthy, environmentally friendly ways for cash-strapped schools to raise funds.

Some of the options are familiar ones: walk-a-thons, bowl-a-thons, gift cards to local stores and book sales. (Or how about a used book sale? Even more eco-friendly.) But there are lots of other cool ideas I haven’t seen before like:

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Dump Your Junk on Wall Street (But Recycle)

Shirley Siluk Gregory — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:02:14 +0000

I like the idea that’s gaining traction rapidly online and off: to stage a street protest against the proposed $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s junk paper. And some of those behind the planned demonstration are asking participants to bring their own junk — old electronics, stupid consumer products, obsolete household items, bad Christmas gifts — to dump as a visual manifestation of their outrage.

But please, please, please, can we make plans to recycle whatever trash gets piled up near the famed bull sculpture at Broadway and Morris streets at 4 p.m. today? Let’s not make an economic meltdown worse by poisoning our landfills even more.

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Th!nk! Can This Eco-friendly Car Start an Electronic Revolution?

Sam Aola Ooko — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:59:15 +0000

For pint-size designs, these electric cars seem to dream of a global revolution where many fear to tread, or have tried with not very impressive results. And think about it, these cars are 100% recyclable!

But Th!nk Global, yes, think with an exclamation mark, a Norwegian company buoyed by undisclosed funding injection by Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and RockPort Capital Partners, is rolling out the Ox, Open and City in North America within three years after a gallant start in Europe and I can’t stop to think when they’ll ever get to Africa.

Think cars are gas-free, city cars that will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011, and the company has recently opened its North American division to steer the promising mad drive from the gas pumps.

Which, I think, is good news for those who feel fuel prices are already over the top, with more pump shocks yet to come if the global crude price projection is anything to go by?

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Florida Agencies Team Up to Recycle

Shirley Siluk Gregory — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:15:17 +0000

Three Florida agencies have recently begun working together to improve recycling in state buildings. The partnership is also expected to provide employment to people with developmental disabilities.

The agenices working together are the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) and the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS).

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