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Bush Strikes (Animals) Again!

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by Starre Vartan · 09/03/08

How much damage can Bush do before he leaves office? Lots, apparently. And….more new green gadgets, yay!!

Bush, charities, gadgets

Pickens Plan LIES, plus Recycling Your Gadgets for Cashola

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by Starre Vartan · 07/31/08

The folks over at Zaproot continually impress me with their weekly show. This round is one of the best ever, showcasing a devious greenwashing plan in Texas and how you can buy an iPhone (guilty!) and recycle it too.

gadgets, oil, Recycling, water, wind power

Greener Gadgets Redux and Harrison Ford Clearcuts (His Chest Hair)

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by Starre Vartan · 05/18/08

electric car, gadgets, rainforest

Smartest Car; Still Worse Than The Dumbest Bike

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by Katie Kish · 12/30/07

Pink Car

The process of buying and making new cars isn’t the solution to this enormous fossil fuel problem we’re having. Hackneyed as it might seem, we need to develop long term sustainable community transportation, AND to rethink the way that we structure our lives around cars.

Buying a smart car is kind of like putting a band aid on a giant gash- technically, at a minuscule level, it’s helping- but if your concern stops at your purchase, you’re still going bleed to death… and worse, you may begin to confuse consumerism with activism. Often, trying to change the world by buying things isn’t really creating the change that companies convince us it is.

However, having said all that…

activism, Animals, car, cars, community, consumerism, death, design, driving, eating, emissions, Energy, epa, Europe, gadgets, garden, gardens, gas, hummers, MPG, oil, Plants, produce, recycle, recycled, spa, sport, sustainable, transportation, waste, water

See Jane Work (in Green)

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by Starre Vartan · 11/18/07

Flora Recycled Notebooks

Colorful Recycled Tabs

Because I spend so much time at my desk, I feel totally justified buying cool stuff for it. Plus, I like pretty, designey things, not plain.

See Jane Work has lots of fun stuff for the office, but I’m especially excited because they have a whole eco-friendly section, which has recycled paper products that aren’t boring, recycled pencils (suddenly pencils seem like such a great tool, low-impact and erasable!), and fun gadgets like the stapler free stapler. (below)

It doesn’t use staples at all, producing less waste (and don’t you always run out of staples anyway, then realize that you can’t find any more of that particular size, leading you to buy a whole new stapler)? Sooooo wasteful.