Global Swarming
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- Measuring your carbon footprint
- Suggesting ways to reduce it
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Use our hive of hot ideas to help keep our planet a cool place to live!
Recently active groups
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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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Environmentally Friendly Fashion
Who says fashion and protecting the environment can't mix???
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I love Lush <3
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Make Croke Park Carbon Neutral
The Cúl Green website was set up to make Ireland's largest sports stadium (Croke Park) a cleaner, greener stadium. An interesting case on how to make public buildings carbon neutral. Join the group and support www.culgreen.ie
Popular goals
Recently asked questions
- Can you explain this goal further for me please, I see that Mr Small cog has asked you already but you have not responded?
- Do you find local markets too expensive these days? Given the economic turndown I am being foced back to buying from supermarkets.
- It's a good thing to turn all appliances off myself. But how can I convince other people to do it?
- How many of you are members of Dublin Cycling Campaign?
- Well, I would love to grow my own food but unfortunately I don't have a garden! Is it possible to grow something inside? And what would be the best food to start with?
Edenblog
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Van Jones
Van Jones prominent sustainability activist and author of the timely The Green Collar Economy is featured on Matter Network today.
The next economy, Jones believes, will be driven by "production, thrift, and environmental restoration," essentially the flip side of the economy whose demise we've been wittnessing lately. This "green collar economy" w…
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Climate change animation
The good people at Worldchanging have an ally by name of Michael Schmitz from Berlin who sent them this terrific video their way earlier this week. He and several friends produced the animation, which reviews (in a weirdly soothing way) the process of climate change, and offers a glimpse of a grim future in which we've done nothing about it. But t…
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Obama shows the way
Barack Obama's statement of intent in relation to the Kyoto Protocol yesterday is another truly inspiring move by the preseident elect.
In a video address to the global warming summit in California, he injected a mood of optimism among those attending.
"Once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in t…
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Scraplife
While we enjoy what the online world offers us it's important to understand that thousands of tons of e-waste – such as discarded PCs, mobile phones and TVs - are dumped in Africa and Asia every year.
This Greenpeace photo essay by Robert Knoth focuses on the Karachi district of Lyari, where hundreds of workers, including teenage children, earn the…
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I’m as Mad as Hell
If you haven't seen Sydney Lummet’s Network go out and watch it, it’s as relevant today as it was back in 1977. This blistering performance by Peter Finch reminds us to get up of our ass and do something.
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Why Are Honeybees Disappearing?
This is the first part of a 60 minutes documentary which explores the possible reasons for Colony Collapse Disorder. You can find the remaining parts on Youtube.
Enjoy!
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Bee Savers
The honey bee is disappearing worldwide from a disease named colony collapse disorder. This is something that we are fully aware of and concerned about here in Edenbee. They have an important environmental role, pollinating wild plants which birds and wild animals rely on for seeds and fruits. They are a fundamental part of our whole eco system!
Glo…
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Leaf House
Now I am a sucker for good design and when it comes to where we live even more so. When I saw this I must admit I turned green with envy. The architects Mareines +Patalano were inspired by Brazil's Indian architecture to produce this flowering roof, low-tech eco-efficiency creation. Perfectly suited for the hot and humid climate where it stands in …
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Hot Flat and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman the world-renowned journalist and author of the World is Flat has just published Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America. This three-time Pulitzer Prize winner proposes that an ambitious national strategy—which he calls "Geo-Greenism"—is not only what we need to save the planet from ove…
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Fuel
Back in July we covered Josh Tickell’s awarding winning documentary Fields of Fuel. Focusing on record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy the movie has been renamed FUEL which exposes the shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such a…