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happyfrog Evolves from Small Amphibian to Mighty Mammal - Say hello to 3rd Whale
A busy year in the pond
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Vancouver Green Web and Mobile Companies Merge - Press Release
BC's Green Directory adds community building tools to connect neighborhoods and people
Attention BC-based eco-savvy folks, Vancouver-based web community start-up - happyfrog.ca - releases social networking features for green minded enthusiast to share tips and reviews of local businesses and organizations.
In the beginning, happyfrog.ca was created to help green-minded citizens find businesses and organizations which fit their values and displayed the results sorted by proximity to conserve transportation resources.
Then, happyfrog invited the public to add reviews to the thousands of listings, as well as engage in a community Q&A project to share tips and solve problems.
Now, all the frogs can "auto-magically" share their green favourites with the public with Myhappyfrog.
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I talk to Wendy Brawer and Thomas Turnbull about the origins of Green Map System (greenmap.org) and what they to accomplish when they launch the Open Green Map (opengreenmap.org) in the coming months.
Go Green: 5 Ways to Stop Using CDs and DVDs
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.
Interview with Yahoo! Green Award winners: Nick Handler and Matt Evans of Live Climate
For this year's Yahoo! Green Award, Yahoo! looked for a “green mashup” that would inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. After reading through the project submissions in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery, they chose Live Climate to be this year's Yahoo! Green Award recipient.
Below is an e-interview with it's co-Directors, Nick Handler and Matt Evans (who is also the Founder).
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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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This is the first in a series at WeBuyItGreen??called Fair Trade Gifts that Change the World, which attempts to show how buying fair trade goods??impacts the lives of the individuals who produce them.????
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We have a winner for the Yahoo! Green Award - Live Climate!
Last year, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.
Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogsFacebook developer needed for GreenerOne Widget
We're developing a widget for GreenerOne that will allow members to display how many people they've helped to make a 'green' decision during their purchase.
We need the help of a facebook developer.
We're building out the backend to intergrate with GreenerOne product reviews and need somebody who can help us intergrate the widget on facebook. The widget is pretty straight basic, it's just a dynamic PNG generated when somebody loads a page and has info about the GreenerOne's reviews.
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I'm writing this while I sit in the passenger seat of a giant, white cargo van careening up the East Coast on route 15, so if I seem a bit distracted in tone, that's probably why. I could wait the four hours until I'm safely in the confines of my computer chair, but I don't want to lose the ideas while they're there. Well, that and I'm sort of melodramatic...
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Saturday, May 31st, "green geeks" will get together at GreenDevCamp at the Green Building Exchange in Redwood City, CA to talk about:
* How can companies, big and small, make their operations, code, practices, etc. more sustainable?
* In what ways can technology make our lives more green?
They are also hoping to walk away with concrete projects:
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