Using social networks to spur greener behavior

The rise of social networks and the mobile Internet may be the best things to happen to sustainable business in a long time, says GreenBiz Senior Writer Marc Gunther. Here's how some companies use them to motivate greener behavior.

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Altruistic Chimpanzees Documented For First Time In Captivity

photo: dullhunk / CC BY For a long time altruistic behavior in chimpanzees in the wild has been documented–unrelated chimps helping one another without apparent expectation of reward–but documentation in a more controlled environment had been lacking, until now. A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (coming to us via

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Send Your Message of Support to Japan (Auto-Translated!)

Image: Screen capture of messagesforjapan.com Thank You Google! The wounds from the 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan a month ago, and from all the other problems that the seismic event caused (the tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis , etc), will take a long time to heal. Thousands are physically wounded, thousands are dead, many have lost their homes and the infrastructure is cri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transformer Furniture Goes Mainstream in New York Times

Image credit: Carolina George A decade ago in Toronto, Julia West Home introduced a line of tables, beds and even spinning bookcases that served multiple functions and took up less space. I designed some of them ( see them here ), convinced that this was the future of furniture. The future has been a long time coming, but now it is in the New York Times , which int…

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Recycling for charity: how to set up a money-raising scheme?

I regularly get emails from people involved with small charities asking how to set up recycling programs that will help them raise money for their cause. Collection/recycling programs have been part of charity fundraising for a long time, but recently most seem to have moved from collecting large amounts of low value items (such as stamps or milk bottle tops) to collecting more valuable items (such as broken jewellery, mobile phones or toner cartridges). There is a lot of competition now for those type of items – not only between the charities but because it’s so easy for people to sell them online themselves – but it’s still a good income stream for certain charities.

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Recycling for charity: how to set up a money-raising scheme?

How can I use my oven more efficiently during baking?

Yesterday, over on my new growing/cooking/making/frugal blog The Really Good Life , I discussed my love affair with slow rise/no knead bread . It’s really frickin’ ace – it doesn’t take much effort, reduces our food waste, is cheap in itself & stops us spending money in other ways too – and most importantly, tastes great.

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New AC Refrigerant Has 99.7% Lower Global Warming Potential Than Current Chemical

Image: GM HFO-1234yf Will be Used in GM’s 2013 Models We talk a lot about CO2 because it is the greenhouse gas that humanity produces in the biggest quantity, but there are many others that contribute to warming our planet.

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Chevy Volt Battery to Have 8 Years/100,000 Miles Warranty

Photo: General Motors Other Automakers Will Have to At Least Match It GM seems pretty confident that the Chevy Volt’s battery pack, which is based on LG Chem cells but is packaged by GM, will last a long time without too many problems. It has just announced that it will be offering a standard warranty of 8 years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes first) covering the all of the 161 battery components.

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Ask Pablo: Should I Get A New Washing Machine?

Image Source: Mia Dear Pablo: I want to do what’s right for the planet but is it really cost-effective to buy a new washing machine? It seems like it would take a long time to pay off.

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Cutting It Fine With Solar Razors

Photos: Nigel’s Eco Store and Electronic Healing It’s a perennial question that defies an easy answer: how do I make my shaving greener? Whilst the simplest solution may be simply to not — let that hair grow — some folk do like a smooth face, legs or underarms

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