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Green West Expo

Green West Expo

Green West brings together the entire spectrum of green products and services together under one
roof giving corporate, government, and individual buyers alike the opportunity for synergistic
purchasing across the full spectrum of suppliers.
Debuting in Southern California, one of the nation’s most vibrant and forward‐thinking green
markets, Green West features green suppliers across the full spectrum of categories

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Energy Pulse: Wallets Drive Many Green Purchase Decisions - Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Energy Pulse: Wallets Drive Many Green Purchase Decisions - Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Companies that want to sell themselves as “green” and environmentally friendly must address product cost concerns as well as put their own money where their mouth is – or else face rising skepticism with a cost-conscious and more discerning U.S. consumer, according to a national study that evaluates the consumer mindset on energy use and conservation, according to the third annual Shelton Group Energy Pulse study, to be released October 8.

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Industrial Woodworking Corporation: Green Business, Green Manufacturing, Environmental Stewardship

Industrial Woodworking Corporation: Green Business, Green Manufacturing, Environmental Stewardship

The cornerstone of IWC’s business philosophy is an unyielding commitment to the environment. Stewardship for both our employees and nature is of paramount importance. From customers to suppliers to employees, we are all accountable for our environmental deeds. We sincerely believe that our actions today have far-reaching implications for future generations. IWC staff diligently pursue both internal and external opportunities to move the company toward environmental consciousness and accountability.

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Namaste Interactive Email Marketing and Online Strategy

Namaste Interactive Email Marketing and Online Strategy

Namaste Interactive is the leader in email solutions and conscious online marketing to the yoga and LOHAS market.

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Hadolife

Hadolife

Welcome to the World of Water!
A world of which every living entity shares a part, and yet about which we know significantly little…

Until the groundbreaking work of a pioneer Japanese researcher whose astonishing discovery about water, documented photographically, changed most of what we didn’t know and led to a new consciousness of Earth’s most precious resource.

“The messages from water are telling us to look inside ourselves”

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Necklaces, Bracelets, Earrings, Crystals, Gemstones, at Energy Muse Jewelry

Necklaces, Bracelets, Earrings, Crystals, Gemstones,  at Energy Muse Jewelry

Our mission is to educate and reconnect the world to the ancient wisdom and healing properties of crystals. Energy Muse is a conscious lifestyle brand providing tools of empowerment, inspiration and hope. Each piece combines energy and intention which create a desired outcome. We believe that every one of us is a healer, teacher and messenger. Every one of us has our unique story. Energy Muse jewelry serves as a tool to help you tap into your inner power and manifest your desires. The time to change the world is now. It is up to every one of us.

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Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward: What’s Behind the Green Consumer Research?

Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward: What's Behind the Green Consumer Research?

I’ve seen enough research data on Americans’ green buying habits over nearly twenty years that I’ve become immune to much of it. It’s not that I think such research is shoddy; it’s just that I’ve found consumers’ credibility on the issue wanting, as I’ve noted in several . . . previous . . . posts.

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Largest Green Ad Network Launches From SustainLane

Largest Green Ad Network Launches From SustainLane

SustainLane, the online media company dedicated to empowering people, businesses and government to go green, today announced the launch of the SustainLane Green Ad Network. The network is the largest green advertising portal on the Web with 36 million page views per month and 28 premium content publishing partners to offer advertisers the greatest reach to consumers interested in the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) market segment

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Goals, Strategies and Tactics

Goals, Strategies and Tactics

Green Media Toolshed is building and strengthening the communications infrastructure for the environmental movement. Green Media Toolshed is committed to providing tools and managing the communities’ media assets (assets can be a variety of intellectual property, artwork, or hardware) to improve the effectiveness of communications between environmental groups and the public.

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How the White House worked to scuttle California’s climate law

How the White House worked to scuttle California's climate law

President Bush’s transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California’s first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress.

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WorldChanging San Francisco: Green Coworking: Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

WorldChanging San Francisco: Green Coworking: Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home. Working from home provides amazing freedom, but with that freedom can come isolation. Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day.

Coworking, a group of individual entrepreneurs sharing a work space, can provide that community while also being an environmentally sustainable choice.

If you’re in SF and need a place to work for a few hours, I invite you to stop by.

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Green Leadership Breakfast

Green Leadership Breakfast

we all know green is more than just the latest trend. This leadership breakfast will focus in on how green campaigns are different. We will present case studies and lessons learned from brands and agencies that have experience in creating and executing environmental campaigns. Our featured speaker is Charles Kennedy, SVP of DYG, Inc. Charles is a well recognized thought leader in generational analysis, media trends and social trend expression.

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Springwise newsletter | 20 September 2007

Springwise newsletter | 20 September 2007

Combining three unremitting consumer trends—convenience, organics and health—YoZone by YoNaturals is a vending machine dedicated to organic products. Based in San Diego, YoNaturals offers an alternative to vending machines that are typically stocked with junk food.

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2nd Annual Business of Organic: Certification, Finance, and Marketing - ALM Conferences & Trade Shows

2nd Annual Business of Organic: Certification, Finance, and Marketing - ALM Conferences & Trade Shows

Join the pioneers and leaders in the Organic Food & Beverage Industry at SRI’s 2nd Annual Business of Organic Conference. This unique opportunity will broaden your knowledge of the organic certification process, explain current standards for organic, and discuss new lucrative business opportunities and financing in the world of organic. In addition, you will have the opportunity to learn from the best marketers and brand managers in the Organic industry to extensively increase your revenue through successful marketing of your own brand.

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litterisbad.com

litterisbad.com

I’d like to take a minute and introduce myself, my name is Canada Litter King, I am the founder of Litter Is Bad.Com.It’s a long story as to why I legally changed my name to Canada Litter King, the internet link is below.From this point on forward just think of me as you’re Litter King, a man on a mission to implement (truly effective solutions)in helping in the creation of cleaner,healthier,prouder environments through creative united marketing channels!

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Main Page - AMEE

Main Page - AMEE

The AMEE API provides data for calculating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from many human activities.

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Good Magazine on YouTube

Good Magazine on YouTube

GOOD - The magazine for people who want to do well by doing good. They engage and challenge the people, ideas and institutions driving change in the world. Their YouTube videos focus on businesses and organizations, plastic bags and totes, public transport, e-waste, and current political topics

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GreenDimes - Stop Junk Mail

GreenDimes - Stop Junk Mail

Stop Postal Junk Mail. Prevent Identity Theft. Save Trees & Protect Forests. We get you off Junk Mailing Lists, Protect your Identity, and Plant a Tree for you. Register for Greendimes.com Mail Block Service Today.

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Top 10 Green Diggers

Top 10 Green Diggers

The following is TDG’s list of the top green diggers, pulled together by a subjective process of talking to their peers, watching their online activity, and gauging their relative effectiveness in bringing green content to light. Although anyone can submit a story to Digg, power users have much more impact in attracting notice and votes.

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fallenrogue: ma.gnolia Blossom in Ruby on Rails

fallenrogue: ma.gnolia Blossom in Ruby on Rails

Another example of connecting to Ma.gnolia REST api using Ruby on Rails.

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SustainableMarketing group on YouTube

SustainableMarketing group on YouTube

The YouTube group for collecting videos of sustainable marketing

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Slideshare for Sustainability

There are many presentations about sustainability available on the slide-sharing service SlideShare.net. Why share your slides? Well, think about the increase in exposure for your ideas and brand that you can achieve by participating, and helping to create online community for slides specific to sustainability issues. — just by tagging your slideshow with relevant keywords like sustainability, organics, etc.

(from the slideshare.net FAQ) You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF files, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. What’s more, the transcripts of your presentation will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results. It’s a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people.

Ideally, I’d have time to create a website that interfaces with their Slideshare API to allow users to post and tag presentations directly from SustainableMarketing.com - one of these weeks when I have a few days just to play with Ruby

Edit: I created a Slideshare group called SustainableMarketing for collecting examples of good presentations related to the topic of sustainable marketing. Join the group to be notified of updates and add examples of great slide shows!

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How to delete all those session files

Or what to do when rm * says “argument list too long” error.

Note this post marks the addition/resuming of geeky (mostly ruby) programming posts to the blog. I’l still have all the regular sustainable marketing and eco-geek content, and will be modifying my feeds so that you can decide which content you want to subscribe to. I tried running two blogs but it was too much work to decide which one to post in! For now, you can also use the menu items at the top of the page to sort by category

Rails apps create session files that are stored in the /tmp/sessions folder. And this folder tends to fill up with old files if you leave it too long. You might get so many files in there that the rm command does not work anymore.


[~/cadvbe/tmp/sessions]# rm *
-jailshell: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
[~/cadvbe/tmp/sessions]# ls -1 | wc -l
144433
[~/cadvbe/tmp/sessions]# find . -name 'ruby_sess*' | xargs rm
[~/cadvbe/tmp/sessions]# ls
./  ../  .svn/

The command ls -1 | wc -l counts how many files were in the directory. Over 144 thousand! Instead, use find . -name 'ruby_sess*' | xargs rm to find all the session files and pipe them to the rm command one at a time. This works.

Thanks to MoundAlexis.com for the idea, and read more on ruby sessions and automatically deleting them with a cron job here

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Video about SustainableWebsites

This was back in June, but I was so busy on a consulting project (details soon) that I haven’t been blogging very much.

Ivan Storck: Sustainable Entrepreneur
QuickTime | Flash | iPod
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Thanks so much to Ryanne and Jay for taking the time to interview me and edit and produce the video! I recommend that any bay area (and beyond) green companies with interesting stories check out their blog Ryan is Hungry.

SustainabilityCalendar.com

This is really just a domain forwarding and masking hack, but I think it could be useful. I’ve been entering in any event I find in the green and sustainability area to Yahoo’s upcoming event calendar service, and tagging them with “sustainability”. I also had the domain name SustainabilityCalendar.com sitting around, doing nothing, after various aborted PHP projects. So, I just used the SustainableDomains.com (a reseller program with GoDaddy) domain forwarding and masking service to point to the tag page for sustainability, and voilà, SustainabilityCalendar.com (or SustainabilityCalendar.org ) is born.

Enjoy it, and please contribute by adding your own events to Upcoming.yahoo.com, and tagging them with the tag “sustainability”. Don’t forget, if your event is related to marketing, submit it to the “Sustainable Marketing” group, and after it is approved, will end up on the home page of SustainableMarketing.com, which gets over 15,000 unique visitors a month.

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Fight climate change with the flip of a switch!

Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event on Oct. 20, 2007. On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. To promote long-lasting energy saving, we plan to distribute free CFL bulbs throughout the city.

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