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Pound the Pavement: Celebrate National Walk to Work Day
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Held the first Friday of April since 2004, National Walk to Work Day was started by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the American Podiatric Medical Association. This special day encourages people to get out of their cars and pound the pavement on their way to and from the office. Ninety-one percent…
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60 Minutes to a Better Planet: Celebrate Earth Hour 2014
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Our busy lives, packed schedules and endless to-do lists make it pretty easy to rationalize away our responsibility to the environment. So this Saturday, March 29th, after your work week has come to an end and all of your chores and errands are checked off, take just one hour and use your power to make…
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Carbon Threat to the Great Barrier Reef
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The Great Barrier Reef, the 1,800-mile long coral reef formation off the coast of Australia, is in grave danger due to climate change and could see its destruction in just 16 years, a new report says.ย ย Home to hundreds of different coral, sponges, mollusks, rays, dolphins, tropical fish, birds, reptiles and other animals, and one…
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Spring Greening
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After enduring so many painfully cold, snowy, sleety, icy storms this winter, spring cleaningโ really, spring anythingโ is music to the ears. But before you thaw out and throw away anything even remotely related to a sweater, take into consideration the following spring cleaning, home greening tips. Fight the Urge to Purgeย As soon as…
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Climate Change Is Melting the Winter Olympics
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This yearโs Winter Olympics has had its share of issues, but it seems future games will have to deal with a problem more complicated than packs of stray dogs and unfinished hotel rooms. Climate change could very well cause a Winter Olympics melt down โ with unprecedented consequences. Even before the Sochi games commenced, several…
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The Olympics Are Greening Russia
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Aside from introducing the word โSochiโ into our everyday vocabulary, the 2014 Winter Olympics have served as a catalyst to introduce Russia to the concept of sustainability, including implementation of the countryโs first national standards for sustainable construction. The Olympic venues and facilities that were built in advance of the games utilized modern environmental standards…
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Bronze, Silver, Gold and Green: Sustainability at the Sochi Olympics
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As skiers, skaters, snowboarders and other athletes vie for gold, silver and bronze, several organizations and companies have already taken home top prizes for their green initiatives in advance of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee implemented the Green Building Recognition Program, a competition among Olympic venue organizations and investors that…
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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Harmful Chemicals to Rid Your House of Today
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Over the years, modern consumers have become all but obsessed with what we, well, consume. From our vegetables to our water bottles, our food and drink are guaranteed hormone-free, cage-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, BPA-free, and most certainly, without MSG. However, itโs not enough to assume that just because we are careful about what we put into…
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Climate Change โ Learning from our European Neighbors
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The 28 countries in the European Union continue to lead the world fight on climate change when, earlier this month, they announced steps to tighten the screws on carbon trading. Following a year of internal wrangling, an agreement was reached making it more expensive for businesses in the EU to burn fossil fuels. Under the…
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Carbon Trading: A Primer
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Earlier this month, the European Union decided to postpone the sale of 900 million carbon allowances, increasing the price of these allowances in their carbon trading system and making it more expensive for companies to move under the cap-and-trade policy. โHuh, what?โ you ask. In laymanโs terms, this means is it will be more expensive…
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