Greener PCs
[Eco-Geek] My morning Technorati Search on Greenpeace reveals a goodly number of links to the report about how much consumers in various countries are willing to pay for environmentally kinder, gentler PCs.
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Symantec Develops Anti-phishing Suite
[Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Personal Tech At Its Best] Would You Pay More For ”˜Cleaner’ PCs? Monday June 26th 2006, 5:17 pm Filed under: News, PC and Peripherals By: Priyanka Pradhan A study by Ipsos-Mori for Greenpeace reveals more PC users want greener, environment friendly computers, even if it they have to pay £108 ($197) extra for it. An average PC requires chemicals and fossil fuels, more than 10 times the weight of the machine but ones with fewer chemicals cost more. As an initiative, Dell computers has promised to eliminate the use of all brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in its products by 2009.Other firms including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have made similar commitment to get more environment friendly in the near future. The study also found that the short life and growing use of computer equipment is leading to a mountain of toxic waste, mainly in India and China. With an alarming 30 million PCs being dumped every year in the US itself, people have now started to become more aware that the...
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Posted at 01:27 AM
June 29, 2006
Greener PCs
[Eco-Geek] My morning Technorati Search on Greenpeace reveals a goodly number of links to the report about how much consumers in various countries are willing to pay for environmentally kinder, gentler PCs.
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Posted at 01:30 AM
Symantec Develops Anti-phishing Suite
[Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Personal Tech At Its Best] Would You Pay More For ”˜Cleaner’ PCs? Monday June 26th 2006, 5:17 pm Filed under: News, PC and Peripherals By: Priyanka Pradhan A study by Ipsos-Mori for Greenpeace reveals more PC users want greener, environment friendly computers, even if it they have to pay £108 ($197) extra for it. An average PC requires chemicals and fossil fuels, more than 10 times the weight of the machine but ones with fewer chemicals cost more. As an initiative, Dell computers has promised to eliminate the use of all brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in its products by 2009.Other firms including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have made similar commitment to get more environment friendly in the near future. The study also found that the short life and growing use of computer equipment is leading to a mountain of toxic waste, mainly in India and China. With an alarming 30 million PCs being dumped every year in the US itself, people have now started to become more aware that the...
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Posted at 01:27 AM
June 27, 2006
In Israel, Whales Are Not Kosher
[The News is NowPublic.com | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] treehugger.com: The good thing about being a small country, is that when an emergency presents itself, the whole population can group together, focus and take swift action. That's what happened recently when the US Secretary of State called Israel earlier this year asking Israel to support the US anti-whaling position at the annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) in St.
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Posted at 01:30 AM
culturekitchen | Organic Consumers Association
[culturekitchen | fresh dissent served daily] The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.
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Posted at 01:29 AM
June 25, 2006
Genpets
[Pointing and Giggling] They are fully living pets, but better, modified to be as reliable, dependable and efficient as any other 'technology' we use in our busy lives."
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Posted at 01:34 AM
127 - Feeding the World
[Pulse] With the rise of agriculture, we’ve planted much of the world’s open land with crops, but Cather’s primal vision still runs deep. From amber waves of grain to the verdant green of rice fields, the promise of an abundant harvest comforts us in ways that few sights can.
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Posted at 01:33 AM
June 21, 2006
Greenpeace, nuovi scontri con le baleniere giapponesi
[Kataweb Multimedia] La protesta degli attivisti di Greenpeace di fronte all'uccisione di una balena da parte della Yushin Maru 2, una delle baleniere giapponesi che cacciano i cetacei nei mari del Sud. Giappone e Norvegia da sempre spingono per il ripristino del commercio di carni di balena
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Posted at 01:31 AM
Give It a Rest
[Pajamas Media] Samizdata thinks Greenpeace—rather than whales—is the real issue at the International Whaling Commission. “How long would the Japanese government subsidise its whaling industry if the passion was sucked out of the debate?”
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Posted at 01:30 AM
June 19, 2006
Organic food at Wal-Mart
[Earth Friendly Gardening] Wal-Mart says it wants to democratize organic food, making products affordable for those who are reluctant to pay premiums of 20 percent to 30 percent. At a recent conference, its chief marketing officer, John Fleming, said the company intended to sell organic products for just 10 percent more than their conventional equivalents.
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Posted at 01:30 AM
culturekitchen | Organic Consumers Association
[BlogSheroes | the feminist bloggers network] Stop GMO pollution.The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.
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Posted at 01:29 AM
June 17, 2006
Why saving playing fields is so important
[seren] This article by grassroots activist Lynne Hayes in today's Western Mail should shame the Assembly Government into action.
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Posted at 01:26 AM
Hype
[Redirect / A Weblog by Sean Hayford O’Leary] In fact, as I look at the GMC home page right now, I see a flaunt of the 2007 “Yukon.” Shamelessness: now with hybrid technology! Though I did just express desire to see more hybrids in this very post, I’m getting really tired of all the hype surrounding hybrid cars.
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Posted at 01:25 AM
June 15, 2006
Gojira!
[The Scratching Post] Recently Greenpeace wanted to say something nasty on the occasion of President Bush's visit to Pennsylvania promoting his nuclear energy policy.
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Posted at 01:43 AM
Two Thoughts
[The News is NowPublic.com | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Two Thoughts davidleewilson.blogspot.com: Nuclear is in the news today - but in the end it is too much for me. PROLIFERATION, PETA, Ontario, nuclear power, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear, Naked, Iran, Greenpeace, darlington, Canada, Boobage, America 2 Views 0 Comments DavidLeeWilson 48 mins ago Add Footage Add Comment...
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Posted at 01:40 AM
June 13, 2006
“Charity is a good investment”; Japan and the International Whaling Commission
[Eco-Geek] Virtually all of the recruited countries, with the exception of land-locked Mongolia, have a relationship with Japan in the fisheries sector, be it through bilateral aid, technical cooperation, fisheries access or trade agreements, and/or common memberships in regional and international fisheries bodies where Japan is concentrating efforts to achieve support for its whaling-related policy objectives. Fisheries aid, like all Japanese aid, remains a powerful foreign policy tool for the Japanese government
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Posted at 01:32 AM
Michael Pollan on organic food at Wal-Mart
[Earth Friendly Gardening] Or perhaps I should say for some of the American land and a great deal more of the land in places like Mexico and China, for Wal-Mart is bound to hasten the globalization of organic food. (Ten percent of organic food is imported today.) Like every other commodity that global corporations lay their hands on, organic food will henceforth come from wherever in the world it can be produced most cheaply.
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Posted at 01:31 AM
June 11, 2006
Greenpeace doet concreet voorstel groene stroom voor Belgie
[schaaflicht - the blog] “België MOET nu beginnen met hernieuwbare energie, anders haalt België de Kyoto-doelen voor 2008-2012 niet” zegt Wendel Trio, campagneleider en klimaatspecialist bij Greenpeace. “De investeringen in de energiesector hebben een lange cyclus”.
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Posted at 01:31 AM
Scientific Rebellion inside the EPA
[Nature 2.0 Beta] Unfortunately that policy of protection, which the EPA scientists uphold, threatens the profits of some very powerful companies. The top dog at the EPA, Administrator Stephen Johnson doesn’t want the scientists to step on his industry friends toes. Johnson doesn’t seem bothered by poisoning the public; his administrators have been pressuring the scientists to change their findings. The head of the EPA has set a policy where the public can be poisoned and the corporate profits are allowed to grow. PEER said NO!
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Posted at 01:30 AM
June 09, 2006
More Senatorial Swag: Free Footwear from Greenpeace
[Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Minds] These babies have your name written all over ”˜em.” This morning we complained that Senators get the best symbolic gifts. And the trend continues: Greenpeace just gave them free sneakers!
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Posted at 01:31 AM
June 07, 2006
Monsanto Hormone Milk: Not The Only GMO Food Made Just For Americans
[Nature 2.0 Beta] Working as part of a timeline project to document the history of genetically engineered foods I came across an item that seemed worth reviving. The original was from the UK Independent, June 20, 1999 so there is no link to a web copy.
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Posted at 01:28 AM
June 05, 2006
Action Alert: California Bill to Take Away Local Voters’ Rights
[Nature 2.0 Beta] It wasn’t long ago that the people of California suffered the pain of an energy crisis orchestrated by Enron and the energy moguls. Legislative changes, widely touted as having benefits for consumers, sent energy prices sky high, created power shortages that left Californians in the dark and bankrupted the State.
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