January 11, 2008
Environment, Film and Tele, Green Building, In the News, Issues, Making Money Being Green
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Green News Headlines
Hunters Are Worried About Global Warming
Pulled from the SF Chronicle with Commentary from Matty Byloos for GEaP; April 9, 2008
Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Read the rest.
Aspen Environment Forum: The Word on Gray Wolves
By Lisa Hymas for GRIST; March 28, 2008
The gray wolf population in the northern Rocky Mountains is being dropped from the federal endangered species list on Friday. Read the full story.
Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why
By Tina Kelley for New York Times; March 25, 2008
Wildlife biologists fear a significant die-off in about 15 caves and mines in New York, as well as at sites in Massachusetts and Vermont. Whatever is killing the bats leaves them unusually thin and, in some cases, dotted with a white fungus.
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January 11, 2008
Cars and Transport, Environment, Travel
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Extreme Hybrid Cars = the Answer?
Find out more information about the Hybrid car of the future in this video news piece from CNN.
CNN’s Greg Hunter takes a sneak peek at an ‘extreme hybrid’ car that gets about 150 miles per gallon.
Running Time: 3:52
January 10, 2008
Green Building, Issues, Making Money Being Green
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Building Green — USGBC’s LEED Approach
Jake Kulju
As more homeowners become conscious of their environmental impact and the significant health risks that conventional building poses, a market for green building has been steadily growing over the last decade. To monitor the process, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) was established as an official regulator of LEED building projects.
What Is LEED?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating system of the USGBC that gives green builders the tools they need to meet the five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. LEED acts as a benchmark for the “design, construction and operation of high performance green building.” LEED was formed Read the rest…
January 9, 2008
Green Blogs
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So this is a bit of a blog about the blog itself — my personal quest here is to ultimately, among a great many other things, rank on the first page for the keyword phrase “green blog.” This is no minor accomplishment. Consider it the back-back-back-story to all the great things that we’re trying to do here with Green Eggs and Planet.
If you look at the screen shot, you see that for the search term “green blog,” there are more than 34 million total search results. “Greeneggsandplanet.com” shows up on page 33! Why the exclamation point, you ask? Seems a tiny victory, at best? Page 33 means that in the few short months we’ve been live, we have managed to get to #327 out of the total amount of search results (more than 33,000,000). If anything, this will be the first little “episode” where we chart our progress toward the top of the SERPs (search engine results pages)!
The good news? With organic search rankings, the philosophy is that we are offering a total experience to you, the user — Green Eggs and Planet, were it to end up on the first page of Google for the search “green blog,” would have to be a comprehensive, total user experience for anyone looking for information on living green. And that, Green Eggers, is the real goal for this site.
Stay tuned for more as we climb, climb, climb.
