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June’s Spotlight of the Month: NextStep Recycling
For June, green is sexy caught up with Lorraine Kerwood of NextStep Recycling, an organization in Eugene that takes in your old electronic equipment, rebuilds them, and then puts them back into the hands of others who can use them…
Lorraine gives Ed his first laptop, a refurbished machine that NextStep has rebuilt.
Let’s start with a ……
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May’s Spotlight of the Month: Alex Webb
On his website, LA-based architectural designer Alex Webb writes that he is “primarily interested in performative algorithmic design, environmental sustainability, sustainable transit and building information modeling (BIM).” We caught up with Alex in Santa Monica, California to learn what the heck all of that means.
So… what exactly is performative algorithmic design anyway?
Yeah… it’s a ……
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April’s Spotlight of the Month:Ginger Ninjas
For April, we caught up with the Ginger Ninjas, a band who not only travels to gigs by bike, but powers their shows by bike And this isn’t just your average gig down at the neighborhood bar. The Ninjas just returned from touring all over Mexico via bicycle on a epic journey deemed ……
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March’s Spotlight of the Month: David Diracles
or March, we’re talking trash with David Diracles, co-founder of Verus Energy in London.
Dave, you and your friend Tim recently founded Verus Energy. What is that?
Verus Energy is a development company focused on creating renewable power plants that use waste as the feedstock. In the same way that a property developer might develop ……
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February’s Spotlight of the Month: B Corporations
It’s a green new way to certify your company. It’s called a B Corporation, and it’s beginning to catch on.
It started back in June 2006 with something called B Lab. 3 entrepreneurs – Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy – who had founded and sold larger successful corporations in ……
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January’s Spotlight of the Month: Ben Shors
An avid outdoorsman, Ben Shors relaxes during a hike on Spencer’s Butte in Eugene, Oregon.
For January, we caught up with Ben Shors, an assistant journalism professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. This year, Professor Shors did something a bit different in his lesson plan for his ……
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December’s Spotlight of the Month: Cardboard Christmas Tree
For December, we caught up with friends Nick Ng and Dan Greene, creators of the Cardboard Christmas Tree. The Cardboard Christmas Tree is a 100% recylable, minimally packaged Christmas tree alternative — perfect for apartment dwellers, artsy types, greenies and everyone in between. We spoke to Dan and Nick in Chicago to learn ……
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November’s Spotlight of the Month: The CoHo Ecovillage
The CoHo Ecovillage
From left to right, Jennifer and Rob in front of their condo; Kids play in some of the 2+ acres of mixed forest preserved on the property
At first promenade into the CoHo Ecovillage, only a few blocks from the vibrant but mellow downtown in the earth-friendly city of Corvallis, Ore., what’s striking is ……
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September & October’s Spotlight of the Month: PaCOOS
Timewaster opps abound on the Interwebs, but there are plenty of ways to suck down an hour or two while getting your green on. This time, we shine our light on the PaCOOS West Coast Habitat Server, Oregon State University’s new map of its home state’s territorial sea, which at a glance might seem like ……
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August’s Spotlight of the Month: Wu Lihong
For August, we shine our water-proof light on environmental activist (and green favorite) Wu Lihong, who is currently serving a three-year prison sentence in China for seeking to prevent chemical companies from dumping untreated waste in Lake Tai, China’s third-largest freshwater lake. August marks the one year anniversary of Wu’s imprisonment.
Wu Lihong, named one ……
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