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Archive for December, 2007

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Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard

Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or (Insert Your Favorite Webapp Here) fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Spreadsheets data in another tab?

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10 Ruby On Rails Plugins You Should Be Using

10 Ruby On Rails Plugins You Should Be Using

One of Ruby on Rails strengths is how easy it is to extend with Ruby Gems and plugins, becuase you don’t have to code everything yourself you can save a lot of time. One problem facing Rails codes is knowing what plugins are out there and how to use them. The following is a list of 10 plugins that should make your coding life much easier and save you a fair bit of time.

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Is Your Apple Really Backed-up?

Is Your Apple Really Backed-up?

Lee on Backup

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From farm to table: What’s the future of food? - Before You Bite with Phil Lempert - MSNBC.com

From farm to table: What's the future of food?  - Before You Bite with Phil Lempert - MSNBC.com

(via Ethicurean.com) Phil Lempert, aka the Supermarket Guru, forecasts the future of food. Among the trends he sees is an even greater focus on where food comes from; he also advises retailers to stop racing each other to the bottom in price and quality.

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Unpackaged

Unpackaged

Welcome to Unpackaged- the better way for you to buy organic wholefoods and environmentally friendly products for your home.

We believe that most packaging is unnecessary so we’re doing something about it.

The result is Unpackaged- the new way for you to shop safe in the knowledge that you’ve not created any waste that’s going to end up in a landfill.

We want you to bring your own containers for us to fill up with your favourite things and we’ll make it cheaper if you do. We know that it isn’t always easy to remember so we can also offer reusable containers that you can bring back next time.

Choose from our range of organic wholefoods (e.g. rice, cereals & grains) and eco-cleaners, where everything is as good for you as it is for the environment!

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EcoMom Alliance

EcoMom Alliance

Kimberly founded the EcoMom Alliance with a clear and twofold mission:

To leverage the power of mothers to help reduce global warming;
To inspire and empower mothers to take First Steps For A Sustainable Future by Sustaining their Homes, Sustaining their Planet and Sustaining Themselves.

Much as kitchen table conversations have inspired women throughout history, the EcoMom Alliance is a call to action asking moms to help protect our planet and create a more peaceful, just world.

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Green Girl Guide : What’s NOW in eco-friendly fashion, beauty and lifestyle

Green Girl Guide : What's NOW in eco-friendly fashion, beauty and lifestyle

Everyone is “going green” these days, but most of us aren’t sure how to make the decision a real part of everyday life. That’s where Green Girl Guide™ comes in. The brainchild of publicist and former journalist Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, publicist and web content producer Mia Wasilevich and graphic designer and web developer Courtney Owens Zielinski, the Green Girls scour the globe for the hottest environmentally and/or socially conscious people, places and things in Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle and call them out on GreenGirlGuide.com.

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Nutrition Professionals Market Research Reports

Nutrition Professionals Market Research Reports

The health of the planet and the health of the people are intricately
linked. Holistic Nutrition Professionals emphasize fresh, whole, organic
foods and these are the same foods that can help one lead a happy, healthy
and sustainable lifestyle that benefits not only themselves but also our
children and the planet. As such, strategic market analysis designed to help
Nutrition Professionals achieve their business goals is also useful to the
sustainability community. We hope that this new analysis by ResearchSight
and Bauman College will be leveraged by everyone who seeks to improve the
health of the planet and the world’s citizens.

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Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted

Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted

Online email blacklist lookup check to find out if email server is on any real-time blacklist, spam blacklist or DNS black list commonly used to block email spam

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Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.

Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.

Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.

Users can switch maps as desired based on personal taste and quality of maps in their local area. Various tools built on top of Mapstraction allow users to easily integrate maps into their own sites, and configure them with different controls, styles, and provider.

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The EnviroMedia Greenwashing Index – Home

The EnviroMedia Greenwashing Index –  Home

send examples of both good and bad green marketing campaigns to this Web site.

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Yahoo’s 2007 Green Search Trends

2007 may go down as the year people stopped just talking about Green and actually did something about it. According to Yahoo!’s top 10 environmental search terms for 2007, consumers are moving beyond awareness to become more action-oriented about the environment and its impact on climate change.

Top 10 Environmental Searches in 2007

  1. Recycling
  2. Global Warming
  3. Freecyle
  4. Earth
  5. Pollution
  6. Al Gore
  7. Environmental Protection Agency
  8. Live Earth
  9. Hybrid Cars
  10. Solar Energy
  11. Source: www.yahoo.com

New terms like “freecycle” (a Network to promote waste reduction) popped up this year, while “carbon footprint” and “carbon credits” reached a growing impression as part of the green vernacular. 2007 also saw queries on global warming reach their highest level ever — throughout the summer, buzz on “stop global warming” boomed, as conscientious citizens looked to reduce their carbon footprint.

More eco-friendly searches arose surrounding “pollution”, and peopleused Yahoo! Search to monitor what the “Environmental Protection Agency” was doing about these issues. “Hybrid cars”, “solar energy”, and “recycling” topics also proved popular for those seeking a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

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Khoomei: The Ancient Art of Tuvan Throat Singing | Matador

Khoomei: The Ancient Art of Tuvan Throat Singing | Matador

Matador is a hip, vibrant travel community of people from around the world interested in sustainability, writing and photography, music & art, sports and culture.

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The Foundation for P2P Alternatives - P2P Foundation

The Foundation for P2P Alternatives - P2P Foundation

We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives.
We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims:
ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite);
promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc…).

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This One Blog: Starting ruby’s gem_server in OS X Leopard

This One Blog: Starting ruby's gem_server in OS X Leopard

how to make gem_server run, and make it run when you log in

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Green Santa Video

this is kinda cute!

All Bark And Not Much Bite When IT Comes To Going Green in UK

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All Bark And Not Much Bite When IT Comes To Going Green in UK - LOHAS

All Bark And Not Much Bite When IT Comes To Going Green in UK - LOHAS

Green IT Awareness research shows UK business interested in being greener, but not doing anything about it

Nearly 70% of UK businesses have no target to reduce their carbon footprint research by the Green Technology Initiative reveals today, yet over 90% of respondents to the Green IT Awareness Survey think that tackling the carbon footprint of IT systems is core to an overall green strategy.

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