Twitter For Trees: Help Plant 100,000 Trees With U.N.E.P

June 5th is United Nations World Environment Day. The U.N. Environment Programme has setup a twitter campaign called ‘twitter for trees’. All you have to do is ‘follow’ http://twitter.com/unepandyou and they will plant a tree. The goal is to get 100,000 followers by June 5th. That plants 100,000 trees, so lets get started!

Resourcefulness: how a little telco out-maneuvers the giants

Mobile phone service, kajeet, innovates by rewarding customers for choosing refurbished phones by planting trees. Win-win for kajeet, customers, and our planet.

Tranter Graphics Corn Cup For Hot Liquids

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Tranter Graphics is now offering a solid disposable corn plastic cup designed for hot liquids in 10oz, 12oz and 16oz models. I encourage all ecopreneurists using disposable cups to take a look at these items.

A Sign For The Times

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This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry. On April 21, 2009 Drinking With Benefits held their latest open house event at the State and Allen Lounge [...]

What do you get when you cross Burning Man with a Green Business Conference?

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There are tons of green conferences these days, and to be sure lots of great information to be learned at them, people to connect with, ideas to germinate, funding to be sought. And yet, something’s missing. Don’t get me wrong, magic has been made and minds blown with just Powerpoint and a good presentation. I [...]