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Britian's carbon footprint continues to grow despite increases in recycling

Florida builder uses steel refrigeration panels for energy efficient home construction, saving home owners 60% on energy costs while at the same time utilizing sustainable building products

We already know that concentrated solar power (CSP) is shaking things up in the solar industry. A subset within the industry is turning up the heat.

What Al Gore is doing is something that no other green organization has tried. That is to mainstreamify as our favorite  verbifying Texan would say.

Whilst the power company E.ON make attempts to convince us they're "going green" (by actually asking YOU to go green) what one hand "gives" the other taketh away. Their latest campaign asks football fans to reduce their carbon footprint whilst they plot to belch out 200 times that amount of carbon every year with a new coal-fired power station!

Plans and details about how to build a solar food dryer. Dry your garden, or organic vegetables and fruits so they can be stored all year round without loosing flavor or nutrients. The site includes details about how the solar dryer works and the book includes lots of great information on building and using your solar food dryer.

World Fair Trade Day is on May 10 and this year's theme is “Fair Trade + Ecology”. So, what's so green about fair trade? There are several reasons that fair trade products can be greener than others, but here is the main one.

Some things are just wasteful. This is one.

6 record holding animals you’ll never be as good as

Before you can open your doors for business, you need an office. Stocking your office with needed supplies is a great opportunity to show your green side and make sustainable choices. From furnishings to paper clips, there are eco-friendly options out there for every office need.

The big names cannot help but pump out more sustainable paper products on an almost weekly basis. From biology college textbooks gone green to carbon friendly greeting cards, we’ve rounded up the top ten green papier goods that caught our eye.

A great report on the California Public Utility Commission hearings into the Sunrise Powerlink from Utility Consumers Action Network's Michael Shames. He points out that this proposed transmission line will cost ratepayers a lot of money and isn't really about renewable energy.

Illegal in eyes of law - but a celebration of the planet in the eyes of nature lovers...the newest "green" underground trend you might not have heard about.

Greenpeace managed to stop illegal fishing in the Mediterranean sea. They caught an Italian fishing vessel 25 km from their legal limit and they were able to save a baby turtle that was stuck in the driftnets which again is illegal.