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According the EPA’s poster, Lifecycle of a CD, 5.5 million CDs, their packaging and millions of other music CDs are tossed each year without recycling. CDs and DVDs are made from Aluminum, Gold, Dyes, various other materials - but most of all Polycarbonate and Lacquer. Polycarbonate and Lacquer are generated directly from crude oil.

Post-NetSquared, Summer's been lots of fun at Green Map as our team grew. By the end of July, we completed Phase 1, and opened the http://OpenGreenMap.org website to our network of locally-led Green Map projects. In the few days since, the first 35 maps are being charted and about 1000 sites have been charted.

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Josh Berry, an American surfer and activist fighting to defend the Chilean coast, talks to us about how the Internet allows him to be mobile throughout Chile and why Facebook is helping Chileans rally to defend their ocean.

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This entry originally appeared in the Portland Oregonian on June 20, 2008 under the title "Climate Change's Other Inconvenience." 

By WeBuyItGreen:  promoting green living, fair trade and tap water

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CarbonDAQ is a national experiment in personal carbon trading, an idea which could help reduce carbon emissions.

What is Personal Carbon Trading ?

Can you believe we are in the final countdown to N2Y3? It’s hard to believe there is just one day left. I’d like to extend a huge thank you to the NetSquared team for all their hard work and organization, and especially for their intro to Vinnie, our project lead. It has been energizing, to say the very least, to learn more about all the amazing projects in this year’s lineup and to talk to so many motivated people.

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Hi everyone,

Latest news headlines from around the world demonstrating the need for Project Bija in America and around the world.

United States: American Institute of Architects chose community for design sustainability project

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080324/NEWS/803240310/1033/NEWS&template=kart

Sri Lanka - Provincial leader states: "Resources must be utilised in a proper way to achieve sustainable development."

Ok - spent a few hours re-establishing the website at Project Bija - it was previously set up for an initiative which we hoped would be able to launch at Live Earth.  Unfortunately we couldn't convince the producers of the biggest show on Earth in time...

The site is now hosted on 2 servers, using 2 urls, sourcing creative commons photos from Flickr, stencils produced in photoshop and open source blogging and bulletin board - so its mashin up the place already - still pretty lumpy though... We will unify everything but in the meantime wanted to put the very basics in place.

Branding is a bit all over the place, with different tag lines being used variously -