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The Giving Tree

So, I’m a little late in bringing this up, but recently, there was news around a new type of synthetic tree that will capture CO2 and let humans sequester it where ever we find the space. Many people wrote about this magical “tree” that will cheerfully sit in parks around the world (or tucked away in [...]

Pittsburgh: Growing Green

There is a movement afoot in one of the classic post-industrial cities of the US which is now becoming the embodiment of a local, green economy. Once known far and wide as “The Smoky City”, Pittsburgh, PA, was the world’s largest producer of steel and had the pollution to show for it: black skies, streetlights on [...]

The Ellusive Carrotmob:

The story of a small for-profit company’s quest to mobilize activist communities (aka Obama taught us a lot):

Virgance was brought to the attention of Sustainy through this month’s top networking tool, Twitter.  It’s a small company revitalizing the practice of “for-profit” activism.  By utilizing everything that is hot in sustainable business today; hyper localism, grassroots social [...]