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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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Health Living Food for the Future
For people interested in bringing more health into their lives through food.You can use this group to source ingredients, look for local food producers, finding recipes or just asking for advice..
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GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving.co.uk is a new and innovative website dedicated to raising awareness about international development projects. GlobalGiving.co.uk is working to raise funds for over 500 projects in over 70 countries. The projects are divided by themes such as children, health, education..etc. Our most popular projects are environment projects which can be found at http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/ac/themenv1.html Some of these projects work to save rainforests in Brazil, Mexico and Australia, while other projects focus on saving wildlife and using solar energy for heat. Because you are a member on edenbee you are clearly interested in helping the environment, which is great! If you want to learn more about what you can do to help people in developing nations help the environment, please visit www.globalgiving.co.uk. Donating as little as 5 pounds goes a long way overseas.
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Dublin Bees
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Edenblog
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Stockholm’s Revitalized Green City Center
Stockholm City Council invited Nod Landscape Architects and the Danes at BIG Architects to recreate Slussen, an intersection they refer to as “a black hole in the heart of Stockholm” with a massive pedestrian-friendly makeover.
The proposed project will transform the area into a multi-layered, multi-use intersection allowing walkers and bikers acces…
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Paper Bottles
Courtesy of the guys at the great Lost at E Minor, design company BrandImage has just come out with a line of paper water bottles made out of renewable resources. The bottles themselves are recyclable, and while not as reusable as a plastic bottle, can still be reused a few times.
However their environmental friendliness is dubious, considering mos…
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Green Football Champions
Whether it’s the design of brand new facilities or implementing eco-friendly programs to existing parks, sport stadiums needs to embrace sustainable practices. Cúl Green is a joint initiative between the GAA and ESB, aimed at making Ireland’s Gaelic football stadium, Croke Park a carbon-neutral stadium.
The Cúl Green plan sets ambitious environmenta…
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Nissan drives a deal with Oregon
Electric cars are hot news, San Francisco's recently announced plans must have spurred the state of Oregon who have unveiled a partnership with automaker Nissan Motor Co. to promote the development of an electric vehicle charging network.
The deal includes a commitment from Nissan to supply electric vehicles to the Oregon’s fleet of state vehicles i…
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Green Ireland
Electric car promoters/builders Better Place could be doing a deal with the Irish government after they announced a plan to develop an electric vehicle network last week. The idea is to create a €1 million pilot project to help make 10 percent of Ireland's road transport fleet electric by 2020. Better Place hasn't signed on to make the move to Irel…
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Carbon Footprints on the move
An article by Joe Hutsko in the New York Times focuses on a neat little App to help you tackle your Carbon Footprint. While downloadable applications for the iPhone have enjoyed most of the spotlight since they began shipping, momentum is building for apps that run on the Google Android operating system, which drives the first retail Android device…
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The world's fastest all-electric motorbike
The world's fastest all-electric motorbike has been unveiled today at the international bike show in Birmingham according to an article in today’s Guardian Newspaper
The TTX01 is the most advanced emission-free bike on the verge of commercial production: it is already road-legal in the UK and its makers claim it can go from 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds, e…
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Thanksgiving Travel Blues
Right now all over America, airports and highways will be jammed as people are on the move for the Thanksgiving weekend. But the question this year is will it be different? According to a Bloomberg article it seems so. The AAA (American Automobile Association) say this Thanksgiving holiday in the USA, will see the lowest volume of Americans traveli…
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Asking Nature
Inhabitat have covered the Biomimicry Institute's recent collobration with Autodesk to launch AskNature.org, an incredible source of information for the growing community of professionals researching and applying the principles of biomimicry. The solutions that animals and nature have come up with have been tried and tested for millions of years (…
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'World mandate' on climate action
According to an article by Richard Black Environment correspondent for BBC News an opinion poll in 11 countries, commissioned by the HSBC Climate Partnership has produced what organisers term a "global mandate" for action on climate change.
Lord Nicholas Stern, who led the 2006 Stern Review into the economics of climate change and now works as a spe…