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Archive for April, 2009

Geek Out for Earth Day: Gadgets to Green Your Lifestyle

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Courtesy of Wired.com: The Great Recession has been a bad trip for everyone. But look on the green side: Our collective need to shrink bills is giving birth to some of the grooviest eco-friendly gadgets yet. Tech manufacturers big and small have gone into overdrive with their environmental campaigns, rolling out products as part of [...]

Happy Earth Day 2009!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

To celebrate, a collection of links from around the web: Earth as Art 2: http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/index.php/collection/earth_as_art_2 Earth Day Network: http://www.earthday.net/ See collaborative efforts from all over the United States: http://www.earthday.gov/ NatGeo: http://greeneffect.nationalgeographic.com/ CalParks Restoration and Cleanup: http://www.calparks.org/programs/earth-day/ If you have an online store and want to do your part on earth day, convert your traditionally hosted [...]

One Card, One Billion Trees

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Looking to apply for a new credit card?  Choose one that gives back! From the site: • After your first purchase, 10 trees will be planted as part of the Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign in Brazil • Each month you use the card for your everyday purchases, an additional tree will be planted [...]

Offset your online purchases!

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

ShopGreen is a powerful carbon offset program and web application that seamlessly integrates into your online e-commerce store. ShopGreen was created by GreenWorld, a company dedicated to providing the best carbon offset applications on the web. ShopGreen features include: • Customize the carbon offset projects offered to customers by selecting from a diverse domestic and [...]

Solar Powered Servers and Earth Sustaining Donations

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Why switch from other hosting to Earth Friendly Ecommerce? Not only is the world around us changing, but the web is changing too and we want to make this change accessible to all those who use the Internet to do business. Internet usage worldwide is set to increase five fold by the year 2015(*), which [...]