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Green College Spotlight: Arizona State University at Tempe

Arizona State University at Tempe is one of the nation’s greenest colleges, gaining a lot of ground since just last year. ASU has been working really hard to green up their campus and get students involved, and all their hard work has paid off – they’re on the ‘Green Honor Roll’ for their B+ grade [...]

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Grist Says: “Screw Earth Day!”

Grist.org, one of the best green blogs in existence, isn’t exactly where you would expect the statement “Screw Earth Day!” to come from. But what they’re really saying is you can’t make up for a lifetime of excess in one day. Planting a tree on Earth Day doesn’t make you green if you spend every [...]

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Green Your Office Holiday Party

Parties are already a major bane to the environment; they produce mountains of waste. Holiday parties are even worse, what with all the discarded wrapping paper and packaging. Considering the current economic conditions, many office parties will likely get scaled down this year from frou-frou corporate dinners to casual disposable tableware-laden get-togethers.
As usual, Grist.org has [...]

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Who’s Who in Green: Chip Giller

Before Grist.org burst onto the scene in 1999, environmentalism online was all about doom and gloom. Chip Giller, Grist’s founder, had a feeling that all of the dour finger-pointing and long journalistic articles about sea turtles weren’t exactly drawing a jaded public to the cause. So, Grist’s signature editorial voice was born – one that’s [...]

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Be Green, Get Rich: Money-Saving Tips Good for the Planet, Too

There’s a definite upside to this whole mess with the economy. It’s simple: nearly all of the tips we’re getting from experts on how to save money also benefit the planet. It’s a matter of consuming less. We’re reigning in our big-spending habits and instead reusing things, cutting back and doing without. In the process, [...]

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Grist Explains How to Smack Down Global Warming Deniers, Point by Point

If you’ve ever gotten into an argument about global warming with a skeptic, you know how frustrating it can be. Grist.org has a crazily comprehensive guide to smacking down climate change deniers and their tired, weak arguments as to why they think global warming is a hoax.
Grist guest author Coby Beck has created an entire [...]

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