Green Living: environmental news and resources
Living green, saving green
Check out these tips and resources to help you preserve the environment and your finances.
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An environmental bonus
A Needham-based ad agency is offering incentives to its nearly 40-person staff to go green, including a $1,000 bonus for purchasing a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle. |
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Useful Sources Meet the Greens
WGBH's online series The Greens gives kids a fun primer on sustainability and green living.
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Teachers Get an "A" In Environmental Education
Few public schools have designated classes to teach about the environment. What children learn is often only based on the passion and commitment of a...
The 45th parallel: Warming where we live
Learn about New England's fight against global warming with the Globe's Beth Daley's special series.
Green blogs
- Alternative energy blog
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- BusinessGreen
- Carbon Trading
- CNET Greentech Blog
- Conscious Consuming
- Consumer Reports: Greener Choices
- Eco-Nerd Food
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- Green Trust Sustainability
- Groovy Green
- How to Go Green
- IHT's Business of Green
- Inside Green Business
- Joel Makower
- World Changing
Davis Square minds its carbon footprints
In Davis Square, restaurants have started composting, using green cleaning products and recycling cooking grease.
Latest green news
- Averting an energy crisis
- Paying to unmake your mark
- Discarded cellphones as art
- Video Pettit discusses his work
- Boston leaves the lights on
- Norwell studies wind power
- Fickle winds limit local energy options
- A long winded debate
- Vatican lists pollution as sinful behavior
- Paper or plastic? Consider the impact
- Going green for Lent
- Green side Laying waste to waste
- What to do when compact fluorescent bulbs crack
- Mercury leaks found as new bulbs break
- Solar panel feud leaves tree owners out on a limb
- How green is my building?
What are bats telling us about the world?
Upwards of a half-million bats may be at risk of dying but scientists also worry that the sick bats are a potent sign of changing conditions in the natural world.
Q&A
Your questions about bisphenol A
Globe reporter Beth Daley and Mia Davis, an expert on bisphenol A, took your questions on potentially toxic plastics.
- photos 10 BPA-free Nalgene alternatives
- from the globe Puzzle, precaution over plastic
She loses it over reusable bags
Finally making the big switch to reusable grocery bags? OK, admit it. Sometimes you don't forget reusable bags. You simply lack the mental energy to do the dance.
Green burials, more at Down:2:Earth
Gear up for Down:2:Earth at the Hynes Convention Center, where companies exhibit eco-friendly products and services.
- From the Globe They are down to earth
- Green blog Saving energy while spreading the news
Photos
Earth hour around the world
From the Sydney Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization went dark for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.
Go green at the New England Home Show
As the world continues to go green, it only seems natural that eco-consciousness starts in the home. Here's a round-up of new green products on display at the New England Home Show.
How to Go Green: Your questions
Wondering how to recycle properly? Afraid that in your attempts to go green, you're still hurting the environment? Sometimes the answer isn't clear. Two experts offer advice.
All the small (green) things
Hey, don't toss that old computer out -- recycle it. These tiny eco-friendly tips add up to make a big difference.
- From the Globe 84 ways to help the planet
Organizations
- Conservation International
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Environmental Defense
- European and Chicago Climate Exchanges
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace
- International Energy Agency
- National Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- The Sierra Club
- United Nations Environment Agency
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- US Department of Energy
- World Meteorological Association
- WWF