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This is it, the final push! Thanks to everyone who has reached into their pocket and kicked-in a buck for charity. Hundreds of you have responded (many with more than a dollar) as eleven environmental websites team up to make the world a better place. Together, we’re supporting some great charities. And you get to [...]

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Time Is Running Out To Spend A Buck For Charity.

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• February 11 February 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990. In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa,......
• New Giveaway Announced: $10 "Giving Gift Card" to Global Giving I have already announced this to all of my RSS subscribers, and wanted to let everyone else know: I will be having a $10 "giving gift card" giveaway in a few weeks.$10 isn't much, but I wanted to show my appreciation for everyone that has subscribed to my content. Hopefully,...

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The Ink Initiative produces high-end illustrated posters that are screen printed by hand, and donates all profits to charity (this year’s nonprofit organization is Philabundance). Talk about a worthy business model. Anyway, they’re having a 2-for-1 sale while supplies last.

In the meantime, drive safe, enjoy your BBQ, and don’t lose any fingers!

• Anatomy of a Bad Month May isn't over yet but it's already been brutal for our budget. M and I typically save a fixed amount of our paychecks every month but this month has definitely not gone as planned. Here are some of the unexpected things we had to pony up for that have thrown......
• Inks Lake, Burnet, TX Inks Lake is located in Burnet, TX Phone - (512) 353 0072 View Larger Map Is boating allowed? Boating is absolutely allowed at Inks Lake, and is actually encouraged. If you do not have a boat of your own, there are paddleboats and canoes that you can rent from the......

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Obexer’s is located on the west shore of Lake Tahoe.
Phone: 530-525-7962
Fuel Dock: Yes, this marina does offer a fuel dock.
Pumpout: This facility does provide a pumpout service.
Services Available:
This is definitely a full service marina and everything under the sun that you could ever require can be found here. The chandlery is simply incredible and offers [...]

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• Russo's Marina, Bethel Park, CA Russo's Marina is located in: Bethel Park, CA Phone: 925-684-2024 Boat launch? Yes, the marina does have a boat launch on site. Please keep in mind that there is a $10 fee to use the launch. Average water depth? The marina did not provide us with their average depth. It......
• New Hogan Lake   New Hogan Lake   New Hogan Lake is located in Valley Springs, CA Phone: (209) 772-1343 About the Lake: This gorgeous lake cover 4400 surface acres and offers a shoreline of 50 miles. The area is particularly beautiful and makes for a very serene environment. The fishing here is......

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-27 http://tinyurl.com/q9y2jt #
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As energy prices go up, many people are looking to alternative power solutions in order to save money. However, converting an entire house to go off grid can be costly, and the work involved may be too much for some homeowners. That doesn’t mean that you have to abandon the idea of alternative power however, [...]

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Have you ever gone to your favorite retailer and asked yourself “should I buy the conventional or organic cotton?” Chances are that you haven’t. The life cycle of cotton is something we often times…

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• July 08 Review Of Free From Broke July, where have you gone?!? You came and went so quick!  It feels like only a few days ago I was asking what financial independence meant.  Now we're in August and I'm feeling like the Summer is slipping away.  Not that I haven't been making the best of it. ......
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Bullards Bar Lake is located in: Nevada City, CA
Phone: (530) 288-3231

About the Lake:
This gorgeous lake covers 4700 acres and is located near Nevada City. The North Yuba butts up against the lake and this is considered to be one of the tallest dams in California. The lake is more than 16 miles long and the [...]

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• Bullards Bar Lake Bullards Bar Lake is located in: Nevada City, CA Phone: (530) 288-3231 About the Lake: This gorgeous lake covers 4700 acres and is located near Nevada City. The North Yuba butts up against the lake and this is considered to be one of the tallest dams in California. The lake......
• Englebright Lake  Englebright Lake is located in: Smartville, CA Phone: (530) 639-2342 About the Lake: This 815 acre lake is home to many trophy size fished and offers numerous boating opportunities. It was intended to be used as a storage depot for mining debris, and the nearby dam is made entirely of......

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It seems as though the so-called skeptics have really gotten under Paul Krugman’s skin this time. Writing in his New York Times column Sunday, the Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist expressed outrage at the representatives who voted against the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill because they doubted the scientific basis of global warming. …

• Why Are They Afraid To Admit Climate Change Is Happening? Whether it is the fault of SUV drivers, hippies, cats and dogs, space travel or air conditioning, there is a consensus that global warming IS happening...so why are they so adamant that it isn't? Every day in the newspaper or on the television, there is someone somewhere speaking out against......
• Aquarium Lighting Advance In years gone by aquarists lit their aquariums with tungsten lights. They probably had no idea of spectrum, probably had lots of algae growth, and I would imagine the heat output would have caused problems too. Methods advance. Nowadays there are two main lighting systems, fluorescent tubes and metal halide......

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Beautiful design – laptop sleeve created from recycled tires. They also make laptop bags and ipod cases.
$119.95 at Tread

• GZA - Alphabets This is the official single off 'Pro Tools' which drops August 19 on Babygrande. GZA-Alphabets 01 Intromental 02 Pencil [ft. Masta Killa & RZA] 03 Alphabets 04 Groundbreaking [ft. Justice Kareem] 05 7 Pounds 06 0% Finance 07 Short Race [ft. Rock Marcy] 08 Interlude 09 Paper Plate 10......
• Guess the Chest #19-21 We're rounding the last leg of the game. How are you doing so far? Are you all caught up? Not sure what I'm talking about start here and follow the numbers. Chest #19 Dear readers, this boy has certainly grown on us hasn't he? Chest #20 Look at washed up......

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When insurance deductibles become so high that it becomes impossible to make claims to repair blown down fences and make routine home improvements, or when the waiting list for contractor help becomes impossibly long, it might be time to consider getting things done yourself.
In the age of big box home repair and home improvement [...]

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• It Might Be Time to Consider DIY for Home Improvement When insurance deductibles become so high that it becomes impossible to make claims to repair blown down fences and make routine home improvements, or when the waiting list for contractor help becomes impossibly long, it might be time to consider getting things done yourself. In the age of big box......

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This latest giveaway is for a Solio Hybrid Solar Charger that charges up your small gadgets using only the power of the sun. BuyGreen was generous to provide one of these to give away to one lucky reader of The Good Human, and the time has come to announce the winner. Out of 53 [...]

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And The Winner Of The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Is…

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• Portable Solar Charger For Your Gadgets On Sale For $19.99. I don't know anything about the company or the gadget, but $19.99 for a solar charger is a pretty good deal. The people over at Golden Gadgets have put the "SUN-PEC Portable Hybrid Solar Charger" on sale this week for much less than I paid for my charger from another......
• And The Winner Of The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Is... This latest giveaway is for a Solio Hybrid Solar Charger that charges up your small gadgets using only the power of the sun. BuyGreen was generous to provide one of these to give away to one lucky reader of The Good Human, and the time has come to announce......

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In a relatively quiet move earlier this week, the Obama administration canceled plans for a large-scale nuclear fuel recycling facility. The move could signal the end of the Global Nuclear Energy Project (GNEP) enacted by the George W. Bush administration.

• Best Certificate of Deposit Rates (CD Rates), June 2009 The following is a list of the nationally available highest yields 12-month CD rates. In general, certificates of deposit (CDs) are great investments because your principal is protected by FDIC insurance and your interest rates are guaranteed. Moreover, you can use CD Ladder to make your CD savings more flexible......
• Incline Village - Mountain Golf Course   Incline Village - Mountain Golf Course   Phone: (775) 832-1146 Website: http://www.golfincline.com Course History: Incline Village is home to two fantastic golf courses, but we're going to focus on the Mountain Course for this review. This is as the name would suggest, a beautifully hilly course that is quite......

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If you haven’t done so yet, PLEASE consider donating just $1 (4 quarters! 10 dimes!) to our charity drive. It ends on Wednesday and we need your votes and your $1 donation for such great charities. Thanks!
More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly [...]

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Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume 124.

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• Where are You on the Inverted Income Tax Pyramid? This being April 14 - and with Mr. ToughMoneyLove having to write a big check to the IRS tomorrow - I feel the need to share this link to a piece written by Ari Fleischer about our inverted income tax pyramid. Here is a teaser quote from the article: When......

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This post is from SFBoater Trophy Catch Jackpot I. Got a trophy catch? Get paid for your fish stories
I Ate the World Record Wahoo??
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I have only caught one really big fish in my life and I am 64.
Back in August 1973, I lived in Merritt Island, Florida. My neighbor bought a new [...]

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• Jack Crevalle, Sebastian Inlet, FL, Kevin, Trophy Catch V1C1 This post is from SFBoater Trophy Catch Jackpot I.  Got a trophy catch? Get paid for your fish stories. I caught these Jack Crevalle at Sebastian Inlet in Florida (here is a webcam of the location).  My dad and I had caught some live finger mullet with a cast net in......

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Still looking for that perfect eco t-shirt? Look no further. Thanks to one of the guys from Green Guys Global, he’s produced a range of eco t-shirts celebrating the original Green Girls Global blog.
His site selling handmade goods, Etsy, now has a Green Girls Global section selling 29 100% organic t-shirts, vests and long-sleeve tops [...]

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• Does Green Consumerism Have To Take A Backseat During A Recession? It’s not so long ago that the term ‘greenwash’ was invented to describe those companies who had apparently become concerned about the environment. Those who have shown a genuine commitment should be applauded for their efforts. However, for others this was nothing more than a cynical ploy to ride off......
• Net Worth Calculator: How Do You Stack Up? This is going to be a fairly short post, I came across the CNN Net worth calculator by following the link from The Get Rich Slowly Forums topic that asked the question of how much should someone save by the time they are X years old. I punched in my......

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Most landlords we work with usually talk about the pressure to compete for and retain tenants when they explain why they are greening their buildings. And we see that the more successful landlords are those who go out of their way to find low or no-cost service offerings, which help their tenants to adopt sustainability [...]

• Friday Quotables - Father's Day Edition It's been a good week, with a lot of fun projects going on. I've got a big announcement right around the corner, too - so that's going to be exciting! I'm betting most if not all of you are going to spending with/talking to/thinking about Dad this weekend. Aren't dads......
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Whether you’ve just bought your first boat, or you are looking for ways to make it easier to transport your boat to and from the lake, there are a couple of things that you need to know. Boat trailering looks very easy, but there are actually quite a few things that can go wrong. By [...]

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• Bullards Bar Lake Bullards Bar Lake is located in: Nevada City, CA Phone: (530) 288-3231 About the Lake: This gorgeous lake covers 4700 acres and is located near Nevada City. The North Yuba butts up against the lake and this is considered to be one of the tallest dams in California. The lake......
• Lighthouse Trailer Resort and Marina, Big Bear Lake, CA Lighthouse Trailer Resort and Marina is located on Big Bear Lake in Big Bear City, CA Phone: 909.866.9464 Average Water Depth: The water levels at Big Bear Lake do change quite a bit. We recommend calling the marina for more information before you arrive. Is there a marine stand by......

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GreenerBuildings reports that retailers that put green practices to work at their facilities can save tens of millions of dollars a year by managing resources and waste more aggressively, according to SSA & Company.  “Retailers spend millions of dollars on their green agendas, but never see the opportunity those agendas present to operate smarter, more [...]

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I’ve recently tried some organic/eco beauty products called Boots Botanics Organic. The UK’s most trusted health and beauty brands Boots is recently being introduced to the US. I thought I would…

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In areas of the world where temperatures are documented to be growing warmer, plants are showing the effects. Some of these effects are good – increased microbial action in the soil making plants more productive. Some are bad – plants moving to cooler locations.

And other effects tend to be neutral …

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Just because it is recyclable, doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to buy…especially if you don’t need it. Does the concept of recyclability give some an excuse to over-consume? Even if something is recyclable, it still has to be designed, made, shipped, consumed, shipped to a facility, recycled, and transformed into something else - [...]

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Does Recycling Give Us An Excuse To Over-Consume?

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• Alta Ski Area, Alta, UT Alta Ski Area is located in: Alta, UT Phone: (801) 359-1078 Website: http://www.alta.com/ About the Resort: Alta Ski Area is a very popular Utah ski resort that offers many different activities that the entire family can enjoy. From backcountry packing trips, to helicopter rides and of course, skiing, there is......

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I don’t usually do the standard top five tip list rigmarole, but I get a lot of email newsletters, and I’m noticing a few not-so-positive trends lately. So in the interest of easing the in-box crunch, you might want to think about the following issues before sending out that next email blast.

1. Don’t send your email newsletter on Tuesday

There’s always a lot of talk about the best day to send your e-newsletter, and apparently every single email marketer recommends Tuesday. I get maybe two dozen e-newsletters on Tuesday, and I can’t handle it anymore. I know why this is, though: everyone’s cranky on Monday because it’s Monday, on Wednesday everyone’s in a bad mood because it’s hump day, on Thursday everyone’s scrambling to get work done before the week ends, and on Friday everyone’s checked out (either mentally or physically). So, Tuesday it is.

But maybe, just maybe, you should consider the possibility that picking a less-than-ideal day of the week is still better than getting lost among two dozen other e-newsletters.

2. Don’t subscribe me without explicit permission. Ever.

I don’t care if you think I’d be interested in your products. I don’t care if we hang out on the same forum. I don’t care if you paid good money for my name on a list. Subscribe me to your email newsletter without asking first, and you’re getting instantly marked as junk.

I play by the three strikes rule (and I consider that generous): the first newsletter I simply unsubscribe from, then send to my junk mail folder. The second time, I reply directly with a complaint, and go through the whole thing again. If I get a third e-newsletter with no acknowledgment of my complaint, the sender gets reported to SpamCop. And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one doing this.

3. Make sure I can unsubscribe easily

I know, I know. This tip ends up on every “Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing” list on the internet, but hear me out. Probably 5% of the e-newsletters I get either have no unsubscribe link at all, another 5% have an unsubscribe link that doesn’t work, and maybe 20% require a whole song and dance to get off the damn list. Keep it simple: put the link at the top and bottom of your email (text smaller than 8 points is unacceptable), make sure it works (you know, actually test it), and don’t require the recipient to enter their name, address, password, and favorite breakfast cereal to unsubscribe. I promise you, the animosity you save will far outweigh the number of actual unsubscribes you get.

4. Double-check your subject line

In the last two weeks, I’ve had three separate email newsletters or announcements land in my in-box with either “DRAFT - please review: [subject here],” or “TEST.” Accidents happen, sure, but this kind of accident seems to be happening more and more. I’m really not finicky, but it just looks lazy when an oversight like this happens. The subject line is a crucial component of your newsletter, and if you’re not looking at it, you’re making a big mistake. Not only is your e-newsletter more likely to end up in the spam folder, you end up looking, well, less than attentive.

Now, these tips aren’t going to change your life, double your click-through rate, or land you a date to the prom. But they will help keep from mildly annoying your recipients. And in the world of marketing, that’s really half the battle.

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Bass Lake is located in: Oakhurst, CA
Phone: 559-642-3212

About the Lake:
Bass Lake is located at the southern entrance to Yosemite Park. This incredibly beautiful lake is a great place for fishing and boating and offers numerous features for both. For most of the year, water levels are sufficient for most boats. After September however, levels do [...]

• French Gulch Marina, Lake Isabella, CA French Gulch Marina is located on Lake Isabella, CA Phone: 760.379.8774 Average Water Depth: The levels at Lake Isabella tend to fluctuate, particularly during dry years. We recommend calling ahead for the current level before you arrive. Marine Standby Channel: At this time, the marina does not monitor any radio......
• Folsom Lake Folsom Lake is located in: Folsom, CA Phone: (916) 988-0205 About the Lake: Folsom Lake is a very popular destination with incredible fishing and boating opportunities. With 75 miles of shoreline and over 10,000 surface acres, there are plenty of places to find your own little piece of heaven. It......

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Thanks to Big Green Smile I’m now the owner of a massive tub of body wash. JASON Mango Satin Body Wash to be precise and at 900ml it’s an imposing sight in the bathroom, but more on that later.
JASON is a brand from Australia, its products are is ‘pure, natural and organic’ and this body [...]

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JASON Mango Satin Body Wash Eco Product Review

• Method Baby is here!! For those us us who have jumped on the Method bandwagon, you will love the new line of Method Baby! Conveniently located at a variety of stores including Target, the Method Baby products are about half the price of California Baby products. Although not organic, the products are 99% natural......
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Benzene in a known carcinogen and can be reduced from a ban on topping off.

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My absolute favorite shoe company is running a summer clearance sale that has made a bunch of their shoes up to 85% off. Simple Shoes are the only shoes I buy anymore (well, except for my Timberland eco-boots), as they are sustainably made with stuff like hemp, organic cotton, PET laces, and even soles made [...]

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The Great White Sturgeon
By Dave British Columbia
The story started when a couple of my buddies asked about a recent Sturgeon fishing trip I took on thr Fraser River. I live just outside of Vancouver, Canada, and [...]

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It is a problem that has happened to all of us. You go in for a hot shower, only to find that there is no more hot water. You have come to the decision it is time to replace you hot water heater with one that has more capacity. The problem is that larger hot [...]

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This week’s Do One Thing is about your feet - and what you can bring into your house by not leaving your shoes at the door. Turns out that 90 to 99% of bacteria found on the exterior of the shoes is transmitted to the floor in your house when you wear your [...]

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Do One Thing: Take Off Your Shoes.

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• Roundup for week of 19 August 2007: Prestige Edition Here are some posts of interest with blogs from the MBN and others in my regular feed-reading:Five Cent Nickel reveals the secret to making money in the stock market.Free Money Finance comments on how much you can borrow to build your own home.All Financial Matters describes how to meet future......
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A question: What do Somali pirates have to do with community-based fishery management?

Before I answer that, the news:

Last week, the New England Fishery Management Council approved 19 fishermen-run, community-based sectors –  a fishing cooperative-based catch share system, explains Julie Wormser of the Environmental Defense Fund – that will take effect …

• West Coast Fisheries Set to Experience Major Changes In a movie to save depleted fish stock, managers are voting to implement a quota system for specific bottom dwelling marine species. After years worth of rules that could only be described as lax, and practices which have wastefully led to a complete economic disaster, the managers of fisheries are......
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Yahoo! Abandons Carbon Offsets in Favor of Efficiency
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Have you checked out the $1 charity fundraiser that I’m participating in with a group of other fine eco-bloggers yet? We’re trying to raise money for an environmental group and those who donate get to vote on who gets the money. Please consider voting and donating a dollar.
“*Not intended to imply environmental safety either [...]

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Greenwash Of The Week: Ortho EcoSense Bug Killer.

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Starkweather Lake is located in: Mammoth Mountain in Madera County, California
Phone: (760) 924-5500
Is boating allowed?
Boating is definitely allowed when visiting Starkweather Lake, however many guides will advise against boating because there is plenty of fishing that can be enjoyed without.
Is there a boat ramp?
There is a boat ramp that allows access to the [...]

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Agnès Varda, director of the amazing documentary Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I), has a new film out—what appears to be a fantastical, memoir-documentary about her life as a New Wave pioneer, wife and lover of Jacques Demy and all-around badass.  Here’s the trailor.

And here’s  A.O. Scott’s piece on the project and [...]

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See that picture? That’s where I stayed last week for some quick R & R in the countryside. An incredibly beautiful place. At lunch one day, I briefly met two women, sitting at the next table. While I was eating,…

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30 Pounder at Duxbury Reef - CA
By Valene Garrison

My husband and I landed this nice 30 pound Chinook Salmon off of Duxbury in 2008 (Editor’s Note: I think she meant 2007 since there wasn’t a salmon season [...]

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• 30 Pound Salmon at Duxbury Reef - CA This post is from SFBoater Trophy Catch Jackpot I. Got a trophy catch? Get paid for your fish stories! 30 Pounder at Duxbury Reef - CA By Valene Garrison My husband and I landed this nice 30 pound Chinook Salmon off of Duxbury in 2008 (Editor's Note: I think......

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A recent report by the Potential Gas Committee found that the United States holds up to 35 percent more natural gas reserves than previously thought.   What does this mean for a country in the midst of a debate on how to address the effects of climate change?
As Marc Gunther writes this week on GreenBiz.com, “in [...]

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Why do so many home improvement projects end in disaster? According to Amy Johnson, the author of What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You, it’s due to the fact that homeowners simply don’t have access to the right tools, knowledge and planning abilities that the pro’s do. Her basic premise is that home owners will spend [...]

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Last week, the New England Fishery Management Council approved 19 community-based sectors to be run by fishermen. In New England, 12 of the 19 ground fish stocks – bottom-dwelling fish such as cod and haddock – are overfished. Sectors are supposed to help end the overfishing.

Sectors are a kind of …

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Have you checked out the $1 charity fundraiser that I’m participating in with a group of other fine eco-bloggers yet? We’re trying to raise money for an environmental group and those who donate get to vote on who gets the money. Please consider voting and donating a dollar.

Now how about this for a [...]

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Now that green has become a marketable attribute for better or worse, everybody and their brother is pushing how green they are. And, given the general standards of our fine American culture, that means greenwashing is now just as ubiquitous. I’ve been watching a rather sad back-and-forth, in which more and more businesses claim they or their products are “green” and consumers roll their eyes and wag their fingers, for a while now. So when I was asked to speak on a panel about greening your business for San Francisco’s Small Business Week, I figured it might be helpful to provide some guidance for attendees.

The result is “Keeping It Real Green: How to Market Your Efforts In an Age of Greenwashing,” a short little piece of work written to help organizations connect with their customers without lying, misleading, or otherwise confusing the hell out of people. This is a pretty big kettle of fish to fry, of course, and it was difficult to get everything into such a compact format. But believe me, I tried! There’s not a lot of fluff in here; this sucker is a legitimately informative resource for any business, however deeply involved in environmental issues it may be.

If you’d like a free copy of the pamphlet, you can request one using the contact page, or give me a call at (415) 643-0121.

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Bad Day of Work = Time to go Striper Fishing
By Kelly MacCormack
Just wanted to share a little fish story to everyone! So I had a wicked bad day at work (you know the type of day I [...]

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It’s often difficult to know what to do with electronics, and some places charge for recycling electronics (I’m looking at you my local EDCO for desktop computers). So to help in trying to find places that recycle electronics for free, Consumer Reports has published a great article.

Conveniently called “Where to recycle electronics, free” the article [...]

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Where To Recycle Electronics

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That’s the goal of the new No Impact Project that we’ve launched. The mission is to engage citizens in lifestyle and social change that leads to both happier people and a happier planet (you can read a little about the…

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According to the Portland Business Journal, Oregon reported a total of 51,402 green jobs for the year of 2008. The amount of jobs was determined by a survey of employers across a broad spectrum of…

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Chicago’s Sears Tower – which, from 1974 to 1998, stood as the world’s tallest building – is getting a green makeover.

Wind turbines, a solar water heater, and the world’s highest green roof are just a few of the proposed improvements that the building’s owners and architects announced Wednesday for the …

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From CNN: Salmon disappearance could bring fishing ban
Story Highlights:

90,000 salmon in California’s Central Valley last year, down from 775,000 in 2002
Wildlife officials say salmon numbers below what’s needed to maintain population
Meeting this week could put total ban on salmon fishing off California, Oregon coasts
Not clear whether decline caused by problems in ocean, rivers, or both

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