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While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening all the time, that this year heralds their very own Go Green (coupon) Book, which offers over 100 coupons to local environmental stores, eateries, services, recreational activities and an entire category for “other.” Read on to find out how to get one. …
Image via: Go Green Book
While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening all the time, that this year heralds their very own Go Green (coupon) Book, which offers over 100 coupons to local environmental stores, eateries, services, recreational activities and an entire category for “other.” Read on to find out how to get one. …
Photo credit: John Masters Organics
Sunny days are here again, which means it’s time to load your skin up with plenty of quality SPF before you venture into the great outdoors. John Masters Organics is all aboard for summer with a new broad-spectrum mineral sunscreen designed to deflect attacks from both UVA and UVB rays, while pampering and hydrating your epidermis with certified-organic green tea extract, Shea butter, and jojoba oil.
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Photo credit: John Masters Organics
Sunny days are here again, which means it’s time to load your skin up with plenty of quality SPF before you venture into the great outdoors. John Masters Organics is all aboard for summer with a new broad-spectrum mineral sunscreen designed to deflect attacks from both UVA and UVB rays while pampering and hydrating your epidermis with certified-organic green tea extract, Shea butter, and jojoba oil.
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If Small Cars Become More Profitable, We’ll Have Better Small Cars
Toyota announced something interesting: The company is restructuring and retooling so that it can make more profits on small cars (more details below). To some this might sound like just some cost-cutting caused by the recession and massive drop in car sales, but I don’t think that’s all there is to it (or at least, I hope not). In fact, I think this is probably the way out (or at least the least bad option in the short-term) for the auto industry. Allow me to explain……
Why? Peak Oil. Jeff Rubin is a regular supplier of great quotes to TreeHugger (like his description of the tar sands: “You know you are at the bottom of the ninth when you are schlepping a tonne of sand to get a barrel of oil” )
For almost twenty years he was chief economist for CIBC World Markets, but has left that comfortable world to spread a not so comfortable message: Our lives are about to change, as the title says: Why Your W…
W.E.D. symbol. Image credit:UNSW, WED Network
Happy BelatedWorld Environment Day, 2009! (The official date was 5 June 2009)
First things first: if you’ve got a Twitter account (or if you’ve been on the fence and need a good excuse to sign up), go to www.twitter.com/UNEPandYou and become a follower. You just may be the one to help 100,000 trees get planted.
Now, let’s clear something up-or try to. World Environment Day (WED) isn’t, of course, Earth Day, though bo…
photo: Vox Efx via flickr.
It’s well ingrained within the green community that frequent flying really is a huge part of your personal carbon emissions. You already probably purchase a carbon offset for all your flights, but would you pay a surcharge of about 1% on long-haul flights if that money would be used to help poor nations adapt to climate change? <a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/07/international-…
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Graham Hill Shares His Experience with the Terra Electric Bike
It is said that the bicycle is the most efficient mean of transportation. Yet some people who would like to commute by bike are scared off by hills, long distances, sweat, etc. That’s where the electric assist bike comes in! Add a little electricity to the mix, and you have a super-charged bicycle that makes most common excuses melt away. TreeHugger founder <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/david…
Like Critical Mass, the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) which now takes place in 70 cities and 20 countries and is happening this year on the weekend of June 13, has its detractors. For one, any movement that declares itself to be a protest against oil dependency can rub people who simply love cars the wrong way. For another, and this is the question you are might be asking yourself, is it really legal to be bike riding naked? Well, the answer is, no…but. The laws regarding “indecent exposure” are vague and hard to enforce, especially when the WNBR bikers come out in mass. Most riders occur without legal intervention, but arrests are not unknown. Click …
