September 14-16, 2010
Marquette Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
Hosted by the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, with significant funding support from the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE), is pleased to host the fifth of five continental conventions of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy (GSB) Project. North American convention co-chairs Jon Foley, director... Read More

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How to make your home a healthy place
Smog in urban areas often makes the news. But truth be told, air quality is often much worse inside our homes than outside. That’s because tens of thousands of chemicals, some synthetic and some found in nature, are used to make products commonly found in buildings. Many of these chemicals are benign, some are highly toxic, and most fall in that wide gray area in between.

When it comes to indoor air contamination, the biggest culprit in our h... Read More

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Huffington Post by Jennifer Schwab

Excerpt: "To my surprise, I found the folks Down Under are ahead of us in a number of ways when it comes to going green. I stayed in the City Centre area of downtown, which is noticeably clean and tidy. Strange looking "Go Green" passenger-carrying bicycles with full canopies, kind of like the pedi-cabs in Central Park, periodically troll by. A natural gas powered fleet of city buses circulates regularly. Dual-flush toilets are very common in public p... Read More

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The following is a letter that I sent in to Every legislator from the state level up to President Obama, regarding Hemp. Hemp is quite possibly the best natural resource on earth, but do your own research and draw your own conclusions.

Please take the time to send one yourself after you have finished reading, and feel free to copy any or all of this letter. This is extremely easy to accomplish at www.change.org by searching the site for Legalize Marijuana.

Much more interesting... Read More

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I belong to another site & they too are for Mother Earth & all FATHERS Pets. They are the Warrior's of the Rainbow. It is a Native American site that is for all people & Mother Earth & again, all  FATHERs pets. So U may want to check them out too..

Later & peace... steph

tags: Sustainable future

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