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Ethikus Offers A Groupon-Like Service To Find Ethical, Sustainable Businesses

Christian Science Monitor
May 2nd, 2012

New York City startup Ethikus provides vouchers for small businesses whose practices embody principles of sustainability.

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Climate Leadership From American Colleges and Universities

Huffington Post
April 30th, 2012

In 2007, a small group of visionary college and university presidents gathered to form the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Five years later they have achieved some remarkable results.

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Textile Recycling Added To Sustainability Festival In Amherst

Hampshire Gazette
April 26th, 2012

Even though people frequently use collection boxes to drop off used clothing for agencies that distribute and sell it, many of the items still end up in landfills and incinerators. The Recycling and Refuse Management Committee is trying to change that, and also help the Fisher Home Hospice Shop and the Amherst Survival Center’s free store, by sponsoring Amherst’s first textile collection at this year’s Sustainability Festival on April 21.

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A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm

Good
April 24th, 2012

Had Willy Wonka had been fascinated by industrial ecology instead of cocoa beans, his factory may have looked something like The Plant, Chicago’s first entirely self-sustaining “vertical farm.”

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Activist Beat on the Goldman Environmental Prize

Uprising Radio
April 19th, 2012

On Monday night, six grassroots environmental activists received the Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony in San Francisco. In addition to the international recognition these activists deserve, they also got $150,000 each to continue their important work.

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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?

Yes! Magazine Yobo Member
May 1st, 2012

When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.

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Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

PJ Star
April 27th, 2012

For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.

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Coming Together For Environmental Restoration In Haiti

Other Worlds Yobo Member
April 25th, 2012

In honor of Earth Day, we run an interview with Yves-André Wainright, who discusses ways that poor governance and the role of foreign donors have contributed to the country’s environmental catastrophe. He also lays out a blueprint for what could turn the situation around, effectively mobilizing both government and the population to begin restoring the environment.

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TheTreeGeek.com to Celebrate Online Grand Opening from Earth Day through Arbor Day

Virtual Strategy
April 23rd, 2012

In the hope it will lead to healthier trees and a better planet, the certified arborists and certifiable “tree geeks” who are the producers of a new tree care site, TheTreeGeek.com, have announced they are celebrating their new site’s official launch with a week-long grand opening event from Earth Day, Sunday April 22nd, to Saturday, April 28th – the day after Arbor Day.

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Tiny Green Steps

Our Daily Green Yobo Member
April 19th, 2012

One of Our Daily Green’s mantras is the 80/20 rule. We strongly believe in doing it right “most of the time” but also in maintaining a sane level of change. Going green is not meant to be a burden or hassle, so we challenge our readers to study the infographic

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