Sheryl Crow at Green bash The Oscars ceremony has abandoned last year’s pretence of being “green” – whatever that meant at the time.  With the exception of last night’s Global Green Pre-Oscar Bash there is not the slightest bit of Academy Awards greenwash in sight.

The stars who put their name to the Global Green charade included: Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cheryl Crow, Penelope Cruz, Rosario Dawson, Marisa Tomei, Kate Bosworth, Sebastian Copeland, Esai Morales and Gavin Rossdale.
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If you are reviewing your carbon footprint, consider a data storage and retrieval system now being sold on the internet.

The product does not need a plug or a battery since it draws on power sources that are off the grid.
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Lesley from Amazon Nails For the first time in a UK government funded project, Straw council houses (local government housing) are being built in Lincolnshire to cut costs and energy consumption.

The six three-bed semis in the village of Martin will each be made of 500 bales and cost GBP60,000 ($87,000).

‘It is the first time this has been tried in the UK,’ says North Kesteven District Council’s Tory leader, Marion Brighton.
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Solar thermal energy storage Since the energy crisis of the 1970’s, it has been a long, slow, uphill trek trying to get alternative renewable energy incorporated into the minds, lives, and homes of mainstream society. In fact, if you look at the situation honestly, the only aspect of energy conservation that has achieved complete and universal acceptance has been the use of insulation as a means of reducing heating and cooling costs or energy consumption. But there is something else deserving of equal consideration.
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