Calif. Bill Calls for Single-Use Battery Recycling

A program would handle all non-rechargeable batteries sold in the state.

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Smaller, Lighter Plastic Shrinks Packaging Footprint

Written by Lee Spivak, Sustainability Services, Waste Management Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Sustainable Brands 2012 Conference in San Diego. This conference brings together companies working toward a variety of…

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Paint Recycling Picks Up Steam

There’s really no way around it. Virtually zero paint retailers offer an option to buy only as much paint as you need. That means, after your room is painted, you’re left with a few pints of paint and nothing to do with it. Luckily, latex paint is…

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Marine Stewardship Council "Dupes" Consumers on Sustainable Seafood: Greenpeace

Image: Good Life Vancouver One of the main bodies that issues certifications for sustainable seafood, the Marine Stewardship Council, is potentially doing more harm than good, according to Greenpeace.

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Weekday Vegetarian: White Bean Stew with Porcini and Winter Squash

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I woke up this morning to an unexpected blizzard, our first real snow of the winter. There is something about a big snowfall that sends me into the kitchen

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The Age of Persuasion Skewers Green Marketing (Audio)

Canadian ad man Terry O’Reilly, author of The Age of Persuasion , has a very funny and informative radio show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covering the business of advertising. The latest episode looks at green marketing. He’ll look back at how the green movement started, how it’s evolved, how marketers navigate the shoals of green marketing today – and what it all means to everyday consumers

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CES 2011: Tablet Devices Make e-Readers Look So Last Season

Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch E-readers were THE thing at last year’s CES, right up there with 3D TV technology. And this year they’re still fairly popular, with news that ebook sales have reached all-time highs. However, since the launch of the iPad in early 2010, companies are scrambling to jump on the tablet bandwagon, and merging the idea of e-books onto tablet devices that will also surf the web, play videos, and more.

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Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees

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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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