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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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Environmentally Friendly Fashion
Who says fashion and protecting the environment can't mix???
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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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Scraplife
While we enjoy what the online world offers us it's important to understand that thousands of tons of e-waste – such as discarded PCs, mobile phones and TVs - are dumped in Africa and Asia every year.
This Greenpeace photo essay by Robert Knoth focuses on the Karachi district of Lyari, where hundreds of workers, including teenage children, earn the…
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I’m as Mad as Hell
If you haven't seen Sydney Lummet’s Network go out and watch it, it’s as relevant today as it was back in 1977. This blistering performance by Peter Finch reminds us to get up of our ass and do something.
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Why Are Honeybees Disappearing?
This is the first part of a 60 minutes documentary which explores the possible reasons for Colony Collapse Disorder. You can find the remaining parts on Youtube.
Enjoy!
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Bee Savers
The honey bee is disappearing worldwide from a disease named colony collapse disorder. This is something that we are fully aware of and concerned about here in Edenbee. They have an important environmental role, pollinating wild plants which birds and wild animals rely on for seeds and fruits. They are a fundamental part of our whole eco system!
Glo…
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Leaf House
Now I am a sucker for good design and when it comes to where we live even more so. When I saw this I must admit I turned green with envy. The architects Mareines +Patalano were inspired by Brazil's Indian architecture to produce this flowering roof, low-tech eco-efficiency creation. Perfectly suited for the hot and humid climate where it stands in …
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Hot Flat and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman the world-renowned journalist and author of the World is Flat has just published Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America. This three-time Pulitzer Prize winner proposes that an ambitious national strategy—which he calls "Geo-Greenism"—is not only what we need to save the planet from ove…
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Fuel
Back in July we covered Josh Tickell’s awarding winning documentary Fields of Fuel. Focusing on record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy the movie has been renamed FUEL which exposes the shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such a…
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Inaugurate Change
Now that change has come we need to ensure that Obama’s administration keeps their focus on the important issues. Worldchanging are doing just that with their Inaugurate Change campaign, add your name to a letter that will urge Obama's administration to deliver a vital message about climate change in his very first speech as President.
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Change Has Come
We want to congratulate BARACK OBAMA (and the American people who voted for him) for becoming the first black president of the United States.
We have been strong supporters of Obama who I think we can all agree is a tolerant, humorous and intelligent human being. Let us hope his words of change can now have the chance to take hold. This truly is an …
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Vimeo cares!
This one's courtesy of Jeffrey Zeldman During the last couple of months, dozens of Vimeo members created videos to inspire the next American president to take action on climate change. Check out the 16 finalists Meanwhile here's the winner.