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• Imagine H2O Prize Competition to Drive Water Innovation

  As 3p readers know, the growing scarcity of freshwater is causing significant social and environment problems around the world.  From a rise in cholera in parts of Africa to chronic water shortages in Australia as a result of drought, people everywhere are feeling the impact of the global water crisis.  [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  by 3p Guest Author

• Thanks to Triple Pundit’s Sponsors

  As November rolls along, we’re happy to see our community of readers, contributors, and sponsors growing. Our sponsors in particular are what make it possible to continue to publish great content and continue to build the 3p movement. Please take some time to check out what they’re doing and if [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  by Nick Aster

• European Lawmakers To Give Free Carbon Credits to Heavy Industry

  The EU, that bastion of environmental common sense, is giving away its carbon credits. For free. To some of their biggest polluters. Reuters reports that European Union lawmakers have approved a list of heavy industries, including metals, textiles, building materials and ceramics, that will be handed free carbon credits starting in [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by BC Upham

• Barcelona Climate Talks End after a Week of Boycotts- Next Stop: Copenhagen

  The final week of climate negotiations in Barcelona have now ended. The last meeting before the main event in Copenhagen next month served to emphasize the lingering stalemate between rich and poor nations, and the equally unmoving impasse between political factions in the United States. On Tuesday, delegations from 50 African [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  by Tom Schueneman

• Give more, Useless

  Believe me, USELESS, I get it. I get the point you’re trying to make. Your anti-consumerism, “Use less, give more” message is not a new one. However, following it with a list of products to purchase definitely is. I understand that you mean to be somewhat ironic. And I get how [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Audrey

• SolarReserve: Everything’s Better With a Little Salt

  It’s the holy grail of renewable energy: power, even when the sun don’t shine, or the wind don’t blow. Some companies are hoping advances in battery capacity will provide the answer, others are looking to flywheels, or hydrostorage. But SolarReserve, an 18-month old start-up based in Santa Monica, uses a [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:42am EST
  by BC Upham

• Warrior Film-making: The Story of Free Range Studios

  I recently visited Free Range Studios to meet with its talented co-founder Jonah Sachs in Berkeley, California, to talk about his startup story. Free Range began 10 years ago as two guys, one laptop, one apartment, and enough creativity and change-the-world-or-bust aspirations to eventually challenge agribusiness, and our consumer lifestyle, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:30am EST
  by Ryan Mickle

• How to Bring Green Weddings to the Masses

  One’s wedding is usually one of the pivotal, most memorable events in one’s life. And yet for an increasing number of people, there’s a nagging sense that things could be done differently. The wedding favors, where did they come from? Who made them? What are they made of? My choice [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:20am EST
  by Paul S

• SC Johnson Ahead of GHG Reduction Target

  SC Johnson, maker of a variety of household products that include Glade, Drano and Scrubbing Bubbles, says in its latest sustainability report that it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions 27 percent at its worldwide factories over the last eight years. In the U.S., the Racine, WI, company reported a 17 percent [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:08am EST
  by Bill DiBenedetto

• Why Attend The Cleantech Open?

  Here are a few reasons I am attending The Cleantech Open on November 17, 2009 at San Francisco’s Nob Hill Masonic Center: Bill Weihl, Google Green Energy Czar, is the event’s key note speaker. There will be 120 of the latest clean technologies displayed in the exhibition hall. You can imagine how many [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:07am EST
  by Bill Roth