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1. Can I get a do-over? Five from PDXgreen's first year
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2. Garmin Nuvi Gets MPGroovy
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3. Top 10 Green Excuses
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4. Taxpayer subsidies for sustainability
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5. Climate change rock stars coming to Corvallis
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6. More than changing a light bulb: Center for Earth Leadership goes deep with new classes
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7. E-waste recycling resources in Oregon, Washington
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8. De-icers, making bread in a can and giving a toilet for Christmas
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9. Green Freebie: Win 5 Free Trips to See the Natural Wonders of the World – Machu Picchu, Anyone?
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10. Green Gift Idea: Virtual Volunteering for a Charity – Right from Your Home Computer
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11. Green Freebie: Win a Gas-Friendly Mini Coop Worth over $18,000
Can I get a do-over? Five from PDXgreen's first year
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - Eat Your Greens
Garmin Nuvi Gets MPGroovy
khallgeisler - Bikes & Cars
Garmin announced its latest nav-system add-on, called ecoRoute, at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The application, which will ready for download in February, allows drivers to choose “less fuel” as a route calculation, in addition to “faster time” and “shorter distance.”
Besides just calculating the gas-sipping-est way from here to there, ecoRoute compiles a Fuel Report and Mileage Report to keep drivers informed of their gas usage over time and per trip. It even has little fuel-saving messages that pop up as text on the screen.
EcoRoute is compatible with the 205 and 705 series of the Garmin Nuvi satellite nav systems. Honda and Ford have recently announced similar built-in systems for their upcoming models, according to Edmunds.com’s Green Car Advisor.
Top 10 Green Excuses
kbutler - funny
If you've used up all your ready excuses for explaining why you've already broken your New Year's resolutions, here's a fresh supply. They're the top ten green excuses to get you out of the everyday predicaments you might get yourself into.
TOP TEN GREEN EXCUSES
10. "I know I smell, but you couldn't possibly expect me to shower longer than 1.3 minutes and waste an extra 3.6 gallons of water."
9. You can't eat dinner at your mother-in-law's because you can't be subjected to another helping of her non-organic food/soul-crushing criticism.
8. "Of course I'm tired. I was up all night trying to figure out exactly why Madonna is on the cover of Vanity Fair's 2008 Green Issue."
7. "I'm sorry, but attending your son's Bar Mitzvah/daughter's confirmation/sister's wedding will offset my carbon footprint."
6. When you're pulled over for speeding, you say, "How about I give you 25 useful facts on solar power to make this whole thing go away? Okay, make it 50."
5. You walked into that adult sex shop because you thought that sign read "We're totally organic!"
4. "What do you mean, I can't set up an industrial wind turbine farm in my front yard? What is this, Communist Russia?"
3. You tackled that distinguished gentleman on the street because you thought he shared Al Gore's dreamy profile.
2. When you're mistaken for a homeless woman, you explain you're just taking "reduce, recycle, and reuse" to the next level.
1. "Oh, like you've never tried to run a Hummer off the road!"
Taxpayer subsidies for sustainability
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - Eat Your Greens
Climate change rock stars coming to Corvallis
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - Eat Your Greens
More than changing a light bulb: Center for Earth Leadership goes...
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - Get Out: Upcoming Events
E-waste recycling resources in Oregon, Washington
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - PDXgreen in print: Friday columns
De-icers, making bread in a can and giving a toilet for Christmas
Shelby Wood, The Oregonian - Eat Your Greens
Green Freebie: Win 5 Free Trips to See the Natural Wonders of the...
susan - Sustainable Ideas
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Does this happen to you? Once you start dreaming about exotic places you'd love to escape to – natural wonders of the world where there are no malls or tinsel or shopping lists – you just can't stop. There are so many things you haven't done yet in life — like a safari on the Serengeti in Tanzania or swimming with the sea lions in the Galapagos or a trek to the Amazon and Machu Picchu – just puckering up to say Machu Picchu puts me in an adventurous state of mind.
Well, stop dreaming – Natural Habitat Adventures has come to the rescue. This eco-conscious company is offering, not one but FIVE, big vacations for two – one every year for five years – to the most exciting natural destinations in the world. Beyond those mentioned in my dreams, they've also got trips to walk with the penguins in Antarctica and the Falklands as well as a trip to Manitoba to schmooze with the polar bears.
I've entered – and so can you – every day up until the deadline, Feb. 28, 2009. Hope to see you there – if not, give the sea lions a smooch for me. Start clicking.
Photo credit: Llama in Macchu Picchuu: from Nurse healthwriter blog
Green Gift Idea: Virtual Volunteering for a Charity – Right from...
susan - Sustainable Ideas
Looking for a way to save money on gifts — who isn’t? Give the best gift of all – and it won't cost you a penny. Volunteer to help a green charity of your choice. And you can do it right from your home computer.
“Virtual volunteering” is on the rise. And a wide range of groups need your help. You can pitch in with groups devoted to the environment, human rights, disaster relief, animal protection, and more. As a virtual volunteer, you provide skills these organizations need, such as contacting donors or writing letters or grant proposals or other materials they need to publish or post on the Web.
Good Green Charities
To find great environmental charities, go to The Charity Navigator web site, a great guide to intelligent giving, and they will provide you with a list of the best charities in all kinds of categories. You can even break it down by location, if you'd rather volunteer the old-fashioned way – in person.
· Click here for a list of the Top 100 four-star-rated environmental charities recommended by the Charity Navigator:
· Sierra Club, devoted to preserving the environment for the next generation:. Their motto says it all: “Explore, enjoy and protect the planet”: http://www.sierraclub.org/
· The Nature Conservancy, which has protected more than 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers — and operates more than 100 marine conservation projects globally.: http://www.nature.org/
Good Charities
Here are some others to consider that were listed by Bottom Line newsletters as willing to engage virtual volunteers. If your favorite charity is not among them, contact them and propose helping out virtually – and start a new trend.
· Network for Good, founded by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo (866-650-4636, www.networkforgood.org).
· Points of Light Institute, a Washington, DC-based organization that recently merged with a similar group, the Hands On Network (202-729-8000, www.pointsoflight.org).
· Taproot Foundation, which puts together teams of working people who want to help charitable groups (415-359-1423, www.taprootfoundation.org).
· ServiceLeader.org at the University of Texas at Austin (512-232-7062, www.serviceleader.org).
· VolunteerMatch, my organization, with volunteer opportunities from more than 55,000 nonprofit organizations (415-241-6868, www.volunteermatch.org).
· UN Volunteers, an arm of the United Nations that can be contacted by E-mail at information@unvolunteers.org and by phone in Germany at 49-228-815-2000. Its Web sites are www.onlinevolunteering.org and www.unvolunteers.org.
· Wisconsin and Minnesota-based Nibakure Children's Village (612-578-6560, www.nibakure.org) recently needed three volunteers to work online two hours a week on fund-raising for an orphanage in Rwanda.
· Family-to-Family (914-478-0756, www.family-to-family.org), an organization that helps feed families in needy communities nationwide.
(Illustration credit: Sierra Club)
Green Freebie: Win a Gas-Friendly Mini Coop Worth over $18,000
susan - Sustainable Ideas
They're oh so cute – those Mini Coops and fuel-efficient, too. They make you want to tie a ribbon on one and drive it right over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house you go for the holidays. Well, maybe you can – for free.
Champignon Minis is giving away one Mini Cooper, valued at over $18,000, just in time for the holidays. It won’t take a miracle — just a click. So see if you can get lucky before the deadline: 12-31-08.
(Photo credit: The Horse’s Mouth )
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