Month: January 1970
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Mom, Dad, I’m an “Ecosexual”!
Via TreeHugger The single best feature in Wired this month is its regular Jargon Watch column: Ecosexual: a term known to TreeHuggers via Warren, defined by Wired as ” A person who’s into hybrid cars, low energy lightbulbs, and recycling. Now that environmentalism is hot, ecosexuals are getting increasingly fashionable.”
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GreatTurtleRace hits 5 C’s of Viral Marketing (and a Bonus C)
Marketing Roadmaps Blog posted about the GTR last week: Remember the five Cs of viral marketing? The Great Turtle Race hits on all five. It has the cornerstone pieces of a compelling message, the cause to save the turtles, and an engaged community. And then they successfully weave together the three elements that make viral…
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Edwards Campaign Goes Carbon Neutral and Helps Voters Do It Too!
John Edwards is the first presidential candidate to go carbon neutral. Not only has the campaign taken steps to offset its carbon footprint and conserve energy, they have also launched ReduceYourCarbon.com a site that lets people pledge to reduce carbon emissions through concrete steps like changing incandescents to fluorescents, adjust the thermostat, improve fuel economy…
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On this sort of Tax Day, some information on where your money goes
Here is a cute little video from one of my new favorite magazines, Good. True Majority also has a nice Pie Chart on tax expenditures.
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Google Earth and Darfur
Google Earth has added a Global Awareness Layer that features data from a collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial on the Genocide in Darfur. It is a very moving presentation of data making Google Earth a valuable tool for education and activism around issues of human rights. The Geospatial data is linked with images and…
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Cell Phones Maybe Illusive Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder
If it is to be believed, we may be totally out of luck as a species.
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Turtles and Galapagos in the news again
President Rafael Correa ordered his government ministers to meet urgently to discuss ways of preventing environmental degradation in Ecuador’s famed Galapagos Islands. CNN has a story about environmental problems on the Galapagos and the steps that Equador is taking to preserve this unique place on earth. The turtles will be on their way there shortly!
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The passing of a great american writer, Kurt Vonnegut
A last check of the RSS reader brought sad news tonight, Kurt Vonnegut died today at 84. I spent 2 weeks in the summer before my 14th birthday laid up in bed with an unexplained sickness that led to, or followed a spinal tap, depending on how you look at it. Standing was unbearable. I…