What’s the ROI of Employee Volunteering?
The HandsOn Network has revised its standards for reporting on employee volunteer programs to better help companies evaluate programs and measure the impact of volunteering.
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What’s the ROI of Employee Volunteering?
Oil Spill in the Mangroves Is a Disgusting, Sticky Mess (Exclusive Photos + Video)
May 27, 2010 by
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No joke, this is Philippe dipping his hand into oil on a Louisiana beach. All photos and video courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. Guest blogger Philippe Cousteau is chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green , and will host the network’s forthcoming Blue August programming
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South Africa to Unveil Plans for High Speed Rail Network
From the US to the UK to China , countries around the world getting in on the high speed rail bandwagon . The latest country to announce plans for a network is South Africa, which is now looking into a high speed rail line that connects Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Right now a journey from Durban to Johannesburg can take up to 12 hours, but with a high speed rail line the trip would only take 3 hours .
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MIT Team Makes Wireless Network in Afghanistan Out of Garbage Bits
At Inhabitat, we’ve seen a ton of cool things made of garbage , but never a whole wireless network – until now, that is. That’s right, members of MIT ’s Bits and Atoms lab taught locals in Jalalabad, Afghanistan how to transform bits of trash into stuff they could use to create a high speed wireless network for the area
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VoltPot Table Planter Charges Your Gadgets With Dirt Power!
Part coffee table and part planter, this awesome Volt Pot puts the environment to work indoors by harnessing the power of dirt to charge your gadgets! The fresh green planter pot has a built-in Microbial Fuel Cell that is capable of generating enough energy to charge small electronics, giving users an additional reason to bring the outdoors in. Read the rest of VoltPot Table Planter Charges Your Gadgets With Dirt Power! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Charging Station , green design , MFC’ , microbial fuel cells , Nectar Designs , sustainable design , Sustainable Interiors , VoltPot
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Set Your Own Mood Lighting With An LED Light Wand Ceiling
If you had a ceiling like this one, which is completely covered in LEDs, you could, on a whim, change the lighting in your room. Draw The Lights , by Seo Dong-Hun, is a concept for a customizable LED ceiling composed of a network of energy efficient LED lights , a few sensors and a light wand
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Take Action: RAN’s JP Morgan Chase Social Media Day of Action
February 13, 2010 by
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photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network and friends are organizing a social media day of action on Thursday, February 18, to pressure JP Morgan Chase to stop financing mountaintop removal. RAN is asking activists to blog, tweet, facebook, and email their networks about the harmful practices of mountaintop removal, what they call “a real American tragedy.”..
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Which Nations are Committed?
January 23, 2010 by
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The deadline for agreeing to the Copenhagen Accord may have been dropped , but the pressure to agree to the Accord and to announce commitments to create cleaner energy sources and reduce pollution is still on. The US Climate Action Network (USCAN) is making it easier for all of us to follow all of the countries’ commitments through a useful chart of their pledges, how their 2020 targets compare to their 1990 pollution levels, their per capita CO 2 emissions, and other information
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Greening Copenhagen: A Climactic Fairytale
[Originally Published On: The Green Blog Network ] When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed the leaders attending the Global Climate Conference in Copenhagen earlier this week, he noted Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid , its famous statue in the city center that is drawn from a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. He also noted that his favorite fairytale as a child was “The Ugly Duckling” because of its theme of transformation
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Rainforest Action Network’s Next Step to Get Fashion Out of Indonesian Forests
December 17, 2009 by
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Summer Rayne Oakes, Olivia Zaleski, and Kate Dillon at RAN’s Don’t Bag Indonesia’s rainforest’ campaign launch at the GreenShows, New York Fashion Week. Credit: RAN Rainforest Action Network’s (RAN) “Don’t bag Indonesia’s rainforest” campaign has had overwhelming success since its launch at the GreenShows during New York Fashion Week. Over 20 lea…
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Rainforest Action Network’s Next Step to Get Fashion Out of Indonesian Forests