California Bombs on Plastic Bag Ban

Photo by Taberandrew Despite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007 , California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience shops would have taken effect by July 2012 in larger stores, and 2013 in smaller stores, and it would have made California the first state to institute a ban like this

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Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)

“We all live downstream from one another,” says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea

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New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses

Photo: New Flyer What’s the Difference Between CNG and Diesel? The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the “MTA”) has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas (”CNG”) heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buses.

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New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses

California Senate Rejects Plastic Bag Ban Bill

California Bill AB 1998 (commonly referred to as the Plastic Bag Ban Bill) was rejected by the California Senate on Tuesday after it failed to receive the two-third majority vote. It would have been the first state-wide plastic bag ban in the U.S….

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California To Extend Carpool-Lane Access To 40,000 Plug-In Hybrids

Photo: Flickr , CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out? In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In car-centric places like Los Angeles, it’s a huge advantage

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Is the UK’s First Green Cell Phone Rating System Bending the Rules?

Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country’s first green cell phone ranking system — something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Kwantlen Xthum: First Nations Meeting Place at University Scoops Design Awards

Designing a space to serve multiple functions can be a challenge. British Columbia design studio Public had to learn about a whole new range of uses for Xthum, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University , where the Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Katzie Nations needed a space for celebrating, feasting, storytelling, counselling, advising, studying, and relaxing.

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Industrial Monoculture Cleans Up: Greenwash, or Mainstreaming Green? (Video)

Image credit: OnEarth Magazine When I wrote about the NRDC’s new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming , the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingly lackluster.

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Top 15 Augmented Reality iPhone Apps for Greener Living

Image via hollaa01 Augmented reality is here. If you’re unsure of what that is, think of the Terminator movies when they showed you what it was like to look at the world through the robot’s eyes, and all the data about whatever he was looking at popped up over the image. It’s a tool that we really love around here because it can be used for so many green purposes

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Shed Is Constructed Entirely Out Of Recycled Car Parts

Karl Wanaselja of Leger Wanaselja Architecture has built this shed out of what looks like a pile of car panels and windshields.

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