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Online Consumers Eager to Embrace Green Shopping

9/25/2007 6:56:48 PM

New research from PriceGrabber.com indicates that consumers are environmentally conscious in many of their buying decisions today but seek help in understanding the landscape of "green" products available to them.

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San Francisco Plastic Grocery Bag Ban

8/31/2007 6:00:36 PM

San Francisco's grocery store ban, passed in March of 2007, is set to go into affect (6 months after passage) shortly. The ban applies to large grocery stores, with annual gross sales of $2 million or more, and pharmacies with 5 or more city locations.

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Group Approach to Changing to Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs

8/20/2007 5:01:38 PM

OneBillionBulbs.com is promoting the replacement of incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. The site allows users to form groups and tracks the group's progress towards reducing energy consumption and resulting carbon dixoide emissions.

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Portable and Foldable Personal Solar Panels

8/20/2007 4:57:37 PM

Many campers and road warriors need on-the-go ability to recharge their cell phones, gps devices or digital cameras. Carrying the extra weight of battery packs for all of these devices is sometimes an impossiblity. That's where the SolarRoll from Bruton comes in to save the day.

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