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Eco Geek: Why Gaming is Green

Hank Green of EcoGeek.org is sick of people saying that geeks adversely impact the environment, and he’s telling us why in a series called ‘Why Geeks are Greener’.  Geeks are often accused of being less than environmentally responsible because of ‘power-sucking computers, toxic game consoles, and general disinterest in the outdoors’. But, in the first [...]

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Will Oprah’s Endorsement Help Kindle E-Reader?

Traditionally, anything Oprah touches turns to gold. Get your product into her ‘favorite things’, or even mentioned in passing on her show, and you’re in for a tsunami of sales.  So, the makers of electronic reading device Kindle are undoubtedly salivating with the sales prospects after she recommended their product last week and offered a [...]

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ABC Blocks a Renewable Energy Ad

The ‘We Can Solve It’ campaign is dedicated to promoting clean energy legislation and education, and they’ve been very effective at demonstrating to the world all of the options we have available to us right now.  We Can Solve It has run ads on many major television networks – even Fox News.  Yet, ABC recently [...]

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Eco Geek Says It’s Time to Stop Sending Letters

Yesterday, the price of stamps went up again by a penny. It wasn’t all that long ago that you could send a letter for 25 cents, and now it’s 42 – a pretty sharp increase in such a short amount of time. Of course, part of that is due to the fact that [...]

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If We Said Sayonara to the Penny, the Earth Would Thank Us

If you’ve got pennies in your pocket and a way to melt down metal, you might want to go ahead and do that: the metal made to make them is worth more than the pennies themselves. One hundred pennies could get you $1.40 worth of zinc. Seems like a big waste of money, doesn’t it?
Furthermore, [...]

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