{"id":9142,"date":"2010-08-21T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2010-08-21T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:53:32","slug":"green-living-clean-energy-and-green-activism-news-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/green-living-clean-energy-and-green-activism-news-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Living, Clean Energy, and Green Activism News of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s our latest roundup of green living, green activism, and clean energy news. Enjoy these great stories from around the internet.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Green Living Tips<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Want to know how to clean your house in an eco-friendly way<\/strong>? Vera Mosley over at sustainablog<\/a> has a few good tips in her recent post, “Eco Cleaning Your Home: Essential Tips That Can Also Keep Your Children Safe<\/a>.” Check that out to make sure you are cleaning your house in an eco-friendly way that is also safe for your children.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Ok, yeah, by now everyone has heard of organic food, but have you heard of organic swimming pools<\/strong>? A very cool story (with pics) over on the CalFinder Remodeling blog<\/a> this week looks at eco-friendly or “organic” swimming pools<\/a>, which are apparently growing in popularity (and for good reason).<\/p>\n

Golf courses<\/strong> are one of my development or land use pet peeves, because they are generally horrible for the environment<\/strong> and yet often get counted as “green spaces” by municipalities. Apparently, some are now trying to be a bit “greener” (environmentally speaking) and Obama recently went golfing on what is supposed to be “the only completely organic golf course in the United States.” Jeff McIntire-Strasburg over at the Sundance Channel’s SUNfiltered blog<\/a> discusses some of the environmental issues of golf courses and asks if this organic golf course is really green, or if it is greenwashing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clean Tech News<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Want to read some positive U.S. news? If so, head on over to the CalFinder Solar<\/strong> blog<\/a> and read an uplifting story on a new Illinois law that will create 5,000 new solar energy jobs<\/strong><\/a> and help the state and its utilities meet their renewable energy targets. Nice stuff!<\/p>\n

Green Activism News<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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To start off the activism news, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)<\/a> highlighted the great global activism<\/strong> that built up around a proposed coal-fired power plant in Scotland last week. “The proposal is the only live application for new coal-fired power station in the UK. Although the developers claim it is a clean-coal development, in reality 80 per cent of emissions would go straight into the atmosphere adding to global climate change,” WWF wrote<\/a>. Nearly 10,000 people from 100 countries<\/strong> came together to oppose the power plant.<\/p>\n

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On the other side of the Atlantic, Becky Striepe, writing over on greenUPGRADER<\/a>, highlighted the depressing news that the EPA recently issued another mountaintop removal coal mining permit<\/strong><\/a> in the Appalachian Mountains and directed us to a petition hosted by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to tell the EPA<\/a><\/strong> that we are disappointed with this action and don’t want to see anymore of the Appalachian Mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal. Go sign the petition TODAY<\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Royal Prince Charles gone activist<\/strong> is too sweet a story to skip. Bonnie Alter of TreeHugger<\/a> reported recently that Prince Charles is going on tour to promote sustainable living<\/a>! This is actually not a big surprise, since Prince Charles has been a strong proponent of sustainable development for awhile, but great to see him doing this! “In his travels<\/a> he will be visiting projects around the country where ordinary people are making a difference by installing solar panels, planting trees and growing vegetables. It is part of HRH\u00a0Start project<\/a>, which promotes a more sustainable lifestyle,” Bonnie reported.<\/p>\n

We wrote on the largest state in India banning plastic bags<\/a> recently. Now, the richest Hindu temple in the world<\/strong> (with around 60,000 visitors a day) is taking it a step further. Matthew McDermott, also writing on TreeHugger, reported (a little over a week ago, I must admit) that ALL plastic will be banned<\/a> from it soon. The state government of Andhra Pradesh is actually the governing body that decided on the ban.\u00a0Cool move, Andhra Pradesh!<\/p>\n

That’s it for our green living, clean energy, and green activism roundup this week. I’m not sure yet if we will get a roundup out next weekend, since I will be on vacation. But perhaps someone else will be interested in picking up this job.<\/p>\n

Photo Credits: The White House via Flickr<\/a>; bionovanaturalpools<\/a>;\u00a0National Memorial for the Mountains via flickr<\/a>; the Prince of Wales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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