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This Green Life - Not an RSS feed (yet), but a good read nonetheless. A regular series of articles on everyday choices you can make.

Adam Brock's Wild Green Yonder blog is a nice collection of stories and analysis from a sustainability perspective.

Treehugger

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To-Go Ware Offers 20% Off to Reduce Your Forkprint

We've been following Stephanie Bernstein's company, To-Go Ware, over the past few years and have seen the company expand its product lines to offer a wide range of products for life "on the go." With re-usable food carriers, utensils, and Read the full story on TreeHugger

Is Warren Buffett's Railway Buy a Billion Dollar Bet on Big Coal?

Photo via DOE The initial reaction to news that the Oracle from Omaha was investing billions of dollars in BNSF railway was positive--Mike noted that it could lead to a number of positive developments: potentially more passenger rail lines, a higher profile for railroad transportation in general, and further investment in other rail lines from other finance big guns. But there's a downside to his purchase as well--the rail Buffett bought transports some 1/5th of America's coal. Is Buffett's investment therefore a bet that coal ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

More Cities Means More Warming, Sure - But More Agricultural Land Means More Cooling?

photo: susteph via flickr. A new study of the effect of land use changes on surface temperatures demonstrates what anyone who lives in a city intuitively knows: Urban areas are hotter than the surrounding countryside -- the heat island effect has been well demonstrated for a while -- but what's interesting is that researchers have found a switch from forest to agricultural land actually has a cooling effect:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Super Green Seafood List Connects Ocean and Human Health (in Pictures)

Photo credit: NOAA Finding sustainable seafood has always been about balancing the health of a given fishery with the health effects of consuming that fish. Some that can be sourced sustainably are also high enough on the food chain that they accumulate toxins in their flesh, transferring those to us humans when we eat them. The Super Green List from the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program balances ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cyclist Hero Earl Blumenauer Rides Around NYC (Video)

"I think this is the decade that it's all going to come together." I don't know if it's going to have the same effect on you, but this video made me hopeful that things are changing. There's still a lot of work to be done, but there's finally a solid movement for walkable and bikeable cities, and it's ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Sustainable Style

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WorldChanging

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Inhabitat

Afrigadget

A collective blog about technological solutions to local problems originating in various parts of Africa.

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