Mad Eejits

Carnival of the Green #114 - 11 Feb 08

Hello and Welcome to Mad Eejits, your hosts for the 114th Carnival of the Green. Last week’s carnival was hosted by the Tao of Change and next week’s will be available on the Greener Side.

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B&Q to Stop Selling Patio Heaters - 21 Jan 08

via Eco-Worrier

The Financial Times reports that everyone’s favourite bank-holiday destination (or is that just in Northern Ireland?), B&Q is to stop selling patio heaters as they are “environmentally unsound”.

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A Breath of Fresh (MacBook) Air? - 16 Jan 08

Browsing through my subscribed news feeds, its not often that the same subject crops up in both my “green” category and my techie/geek one, but today is one of those rare occasions. Its seems that everyone wants to talk about Apple’s newly announced MacBook Air, whether it be from a technology stand-point or with a view to its eco-friendly credentials, which make it quite probably the greenest Apple yet.

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The Landfill Prize - 10 Jan 08

Did you receive something completely pointless for Christmas that’s a complete waste of the resources that went into making it? Maybe you’ve bought something useless yourself, in a moment of madness. Either way you can know make your feelings known by nominating the offending item(s) for The Landfill Prize.

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Walking Worse for Planet than Driving? - 06 Aug 07

It seems illogical, but that’s the claim made in a recent scientific report, featured in the Times. However, rather than being the ravings of an eco-skeptic, at the heart of the report is the well-reasoned argument that food production, and therefore how we fuel out bodies, has a greater impact on the environment than our cars.

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Discovery Buys Treehugger - 02 Aug 07

If, like I did, you start poking about the internet for information on green issues and environmental news, sooner or later (but probably sooner) you’re going to stumble across Treehugger. Between their news, green guides and forum, there probably isn’t much information that you can’t find there and I’ve been a regular visitor (and subscriber) since I first discovered the site.

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Eco-Libris - Moving Towards Sustainable Reading - 05 Jul 07

We’d like to thank Raz Godelnik for getting in touch regarding his new project Eco-Libris, a service that allows book readers balance out the paper used for their books by planting trees.

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Green Google - 21 Jun 07

If you weren’t already convinced that ‘Green is the New Black’, then check out the actions of Google who, following a similar announcement from Yahoo, have declared their intentions to go carbon neutral. Google, though have a bit of a head start, having started work a massive photovoltaic solar panel system last October. In typical Google fashion, you can now access live(ish) statistics for the solar panels online.

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Yahoo! Green - 14 May 07

Just days after noting that Yahoo! was promoting Freecycle through its Mail service, comes the news that Yahoo has now launched its own Yahoo Green mini-site.

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