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- Measuring your carbon footprint
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Recently active groups
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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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DEAF_dublin_electroinc_arts_festival
This is a group for artists, musicians and promoters working with the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival... More info to follow very soon !!
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USBee
For all the bees that live in the US. and probably have USBs...
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Multipack
The Multipack is a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands. Every month we get together to discuss design, code, standards and technology, and share our knowledge, skills and talents. We meet up every second Saturday of each month in the centre of Birmingham.
Popular goals
Recently asked questions
- Does your town need a Critical Mass? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass)
- Primark won't let you use your own bag - they make you have a plastic one!
- Ever been knocked down on your bike?
- I probably have room to compost my food waste, but I don't have a garden so what do with the compost?
- What kind of trees will these be Dude?
Popular discussions
Edenblog
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China builds the world’s first Eco-City
It’s a funny old world. China, now officially the world’s biggest polluter, is well on the way to developing sustainable cities the likes of which we have never seen before. On a small island on the mouth of the Yangtze River Delta, Arup, the engineering firm responsible for the (just plain weird looking) Beijing National Stadium, are hard at work …
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Hybrid Heaven
Lets face it, when we hear the word Hybrid in relation to cars the good old Prius pops to mind. What’s been lacking however from the market is that certain va va voom. Enter noted car designer Henrik Fisker, with the ultra cool Karma a sleek, power packed eco-luxury ride.
The Karma’s performance specs rev out at 0-60 mph in 6 seconds, and a top spee…
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Edenbee on Planet Green
Recently Leonora Oppenheim from Planet Green profiled Edenbee as part of their Change Makers series. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to read it pop along to see what we had to say.
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Airlines slow down
At Edenbee we believe that a small action can make a big difference. According to a recent report in The New York Times by the Associated Press JetBlue is now flying a little slower, adding an average of about two minutes to each flight—and saving about $13.6 million a year in jet fuel.
Like the Slow Food movement the idea is to slow down to go furt…
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S'Updates
Talk eco-driving and see how many eco-driving tips you can take on board on Ecomodder
Find funding, make green business connections and inspire others on EcoSector.com
The Green Log Awards just announced their 2008 finalists list. 'Companies, blogs, and web sites nominated for this year's awards program are being recognized for their commitment to pr…
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Friday's Green Icon
Introducing a new Friday slot, Green Icons will detail people who are at the forefront of change. Thumbs up to Brendan Phelan for this. Brendan will be contributing regularly on Edenbee so look out for his up and coming posts.
It's Friday so we thought we would send you away to the pubs / for the weekend with something interesting to talk to your ma…
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Bring me sunshine
The Uk and Ireland can celebrate today with some more glorious sunshine and if that were not enough energy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Courtesy of Inhabitat this is truly a story to shout about.
The Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost…
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LocalCooling
In my book free is good and when it comes to simple little apps that save you energy and money, thats an added bonus. More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we aren’t using them. The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent, in energy terms, to the gas cons…
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Eco Ideas
To keep abreast of new ideas out there check out Springwise a network of 8,000 spotters who scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds from San Francisco to Singapore.
With a host of categorized sections it has something for everybody who wants to keep ahead of the game or get those inspirat…
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CO2 watch what you do!!
Big thumbs up to CO2.ie an Irish site designed to help you reduce your personal carbon footprint through your home, car & lifestyle (that’s sounds familiar!) They provide you with the Green knowledge, products & services including Building Energy Rating (BER) so you can save energy and a bit of dosh while you’re at it. We will be partnering with th…