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“Unbelievable ~ to be in this beautiful blue water at about 25 – 26 feet. Then look up into this cloud, this dark black cloud and ominously it looks like a storm cloud. Is rolling through the water” – Philippe Cousteau Jr.

It’s an outrage. 2010 should start in a way that reflects our movement’s amazing accomplishments from last year — moving the ball forward to passage of comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. Instead, our elected leaders are proposing policies that would set us back decades and let the worst polluters completely off the hook.

“I don’t know how we build any other way anywhere else. We can no longer tell ourselves that implementing this technology is too complex a problem because it’s just been proven on this little spot on the map,” Brad Pitt

“The beauty of the Volt’s design is much more than just surface deep. The interior and exterior design is an important element of the Volt’s overall mission to be the most energy-efficient Chevy ever.”

“The focus on green jobs continues to increase year over year as job seekers look for more environmentally conscious career paths and employers make changes to protect the environment,” said Jason Ferrara, vice president of corporate marketing at CareerBuilder.

Cameron Diaz in a picture shoot for Vogue Magazine, shows us some of latest summer eco-fashions.

See the June issue of Vogue for the whole story. You can also watch a slideshow online.

The Houston Rockets announced today the signing of Integrated Environmental Technologies, Ltd. (OTC:“IEVM”) and Houston-based Benchmark Performance Group, Inc. to a new sponsorship agreement. Always looking for innovative ways to stay ahead of the [...]

Every year over 15 million children die from hunger and this number is growing instead of shrinking.
The World Health Organization estimates that 1/3 of the world population is underfed and another 1/3 are starving.
1 in 7 people do not get enough food to be healthy.
Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risks to health, worldwide. [...]

You spoke and Washington listened. With President Obama’s signature on economic recovery legislation yesterday, America made the largest investment in clean energy and green jobs in our history.
Now we need to build on this momentum. I’ve recorded a special message to say thank you, and share our strategy going forward.

Will you watch and donate [...]

Google unveiled the plans for PowerMeter. A program to help you monitor your power usage right from your iGoogle homepage.

“Google PowerMeter, currently a prototype product, will allow you to see your own energy usage information and help you improve your efficiency in a variety of ways. The first way you’ll see this tool in [...]

Data centers are what make the internet possible.
A data center houses all the computer equipment necessary for you to visit a website, relay information as you surf the Internet, talk on your cell phone and store billions of websites themselves and a whole lot more.
What does this have to do with the environment? A LOT!
Data [...]