Global Swarming
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working to tackle climate change by
- Measuring your carbon footprint
- Suggesting ways to reduce it
- Showing the difference you make
Use our hive of hot ideas to help keep our planet a cool place to live!
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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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Dublin Bees
Open for all people in Dublin!!
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Make Croke Park Carbon Neutral
The Cúl Green website was set up to make Ireland's largest sports stadium (Croke Park) a cleaner, greener stadium. An interesting case on how to make public buildings carbon neutral. Join the group and support www.culgreen.ie
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New Bamboo
Our goal: save the pandas!
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Recently asked questions
- Hope it worked out well? can you send me the link?
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- how can we achieve this as individuals
- Should we use older phones that dont have all the nice to have features that suck the power out of the batteries...?
- Can you post monthly (or weekly) updates on this? Or at least a yearly report? :) It would be great to know how and what everyone is doing & what works best!!
Edenblog
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Edenbee House Improvements
Over the Christmas we have made a few changes to the Edenbee site, a little house keeping you could say. Here are just a few of the things we have done.
We have installed a feedback widget that links you to our Get Satisfaction page so you can share ideas with us, praise us or berate us or perhaps suggest things you would like to see in the communit…
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Obama's open for questions
Barack Obama’s use of the internet was revolutionary in American politics. Now we see the incoming administration continuing the trend with the Change.gov site where citizens can ask questions online.
In the Energy and Environment section It’s refreshing to see questions ranging tackling intercity rail projects, distributed power and renewables vs.…
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Hertz Connect
Launched late last month, Connect by Hertz is a car-sharing initiative similar to Zipcar.
Hertzt are offering car sharing in London, Paris and New York City. In New York, for example, members of the service can choose from among three plans, depending on how often they drive. All three give consumers 180 free miles per day and free gas; costs range …
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Encounters at the end of the world
I’ve always been a big fan of Werner Herzog, his work in recent years has focused more towards the natural and the sublime and his latest documentary release Encounters at the End of the World is no exception.
As the marketing people put it “There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievabl…
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That Friday Feeling
Sufjan Stevens fills this weeks Friday feeling haunting track about John Wayne Gacy Jr.
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Happy New Year
We want to wish everyone a very happy new year.It's that time of year again where new year resolutions are about to be made and before too long will probably be forgotten. What can I say it happens to the best of us!
So let us reflect on the year in 40 seconds as Eirik Solheim has on Vimeo to put some real perspective on things.
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Garbage Warrior
One of our users posted a goal Build an EarthShip As Countpollen rightly points out Earthships are houses that are completely carbon neutral and self-sustaining (water, electricity).
They are built out of recycled materials such as old car tyres, bottles, cans. No heating is needed, because the south-faced windows (glass wall) catch enough (winter)…
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It's a wrap
Before you go wrapping your Christmas presents consider this, every year in the UK we use more than 8,000 tonnes of wrapping paper for our Christmas presents, equivalent to 50,000 trees. And sticky tape, being non-biodegradable, prevents us from reusing those mountains of wrapping paper.
Future Presentt is challenging the design community to develop…
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Antarctica: A Call to Action
Sebastian Copeland has been described as “"a rare combination of accomplished fine artist, intrepid explorer and passionate spokesperson concerning climate change."
In his latest book Antarctica: A Call to Action, the sequel to his bestselling Antarctica: The Global Warning. Copeland’s awe-inspiring images of the frozen continent capture the beauty …
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Living Homes
Steve Glenn the founder of LivingHomes mission is to “create homes and communities that inspire people, foster family and community interaction, and make modern life easier, healthier and more comfortable -- all in ways that compliment and enhance the municipalities and environments in which we work.” And I gotta say he’s doing rather a good job o…