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eBay Launches a New Portal for Conservation Minded Shoppers

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Image credit: eBay

"Going green" may be turning into a tired refrain for those that have been working hard to decrease their environmental footprint for years. To corporate America, however, the phrase has just as much vibrancy as ever.

The Cove Documentary Set To Become A TV Series on Animal Planet

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Photo via The Cove

The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market.

Forget Tombstones - Get An RFID Memorial Tablet Instead

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Image of a traditional tombstone with an RFID tag that carries a little more personal data. Via Objecs.
Objecs is selling its Personal Rosetta Stone passive RFID-enabled data tags as an addition to a loved one's tomb stone - you can enter the person's name and choose some represetative symbols, perhaps a small epitaph via the web - then you embed the tag into a larger traditional tombstone.

Cove Wins an Oscar, Makes an Activist Statement, Gets Cut Off

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Image via The Cove

Congrats to The Cove and the entire team who made this world-changing documentary. The movie exposes the dolphin slaughter happening in Japan by doing some Mission-Impossible-style footwork to film the annual killing at one of Japan's most notorious hunting grounds in Taiji, Japan.

Green Gowns on Oscar's Red Carpet

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Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron's green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck

Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns.

Gabrielle Anwar Lives the Simple Life, Meryl Streep's Message for Moms, and More

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Photo via EcoStiletto

Actress Gabrielle Anwar--most famous for her Scent of a Woman tango with Al Pacino and her current role on USA's Burn Notice knows that the lessons you learn as a kid are the ones most likely to stay with you--whether that means teachi

Mercedes Unveils Tree of Innovation at Oscars

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Source: Merkley and Partners

This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the

Being a Cyclist in Iceland: Interview with Morten Lange, head of the Icelandic Cyclists' Federation

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Photo: Flickr, CC

World Streets has a great interview with Morten Lange, the head of the Icelandic Cyclists' Federation. Part of the interview is about Iceland-specific things, but most of it applies to cyclists everywhere.