This article titled “Can I buy a Christmas tree and be green?” was written by Lucy Siegle, for The Observer on Sunday 12th December 2010 00.06 UTC From small acorns mighty oaks grow, and all that.

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Can I Buy a Christmas Tree and Be Green?

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This article was written by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 19th August 2010 06.30 UTC The carbon footprint of doing the dishes : Almost zero CO2e : by hand in cold water (but the plates aren’t clean) 540g CO2e : by hand, using water sparingly and not too hot 770g CO2e : in a dishwasher at 55°C 990g CO2e : in a dishwasher at 65°C 8000g CO2e : by hand, with extravagant use of water When it comes to long-standing green-living debates, washing up by hand versus using a dishwasher is right up there with hand-driers versus paper towels .

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What’s the Carbon Footprint of… Doing the Dishes?

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This is a guest post from the guys at igadgetlife.com , covering gadget reviews . They say that music calms the savage beast.

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Play It Again Sam: Alternatively Powered Radios and Players

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The latest addition to the LiveOAK Network focuses on the green (and not-so-green) aspects of the music industry. Experiencing live music has become what I do with much of my free time. Not that I play music, I don’t play a lick.

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Greening the Music Industry with GreenUPmusic

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Tell us more about your office’s sustainability efforts and you could win this HP Compaq 8000f Elite Desktop. The energy efficient HP Compaq 8000f Elite is the first Windows-based Desktop PC in the industry to be completely free of brominated flame retardants and Polyvinyl chloride — and thanks to the good people at HP, we’re giving one away for Earth Day. The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is less than a week away and if there is one message that has become increasingly clear over the last 40 years, as the environmental movement has moved from the fringe the main stream of public consciousness, it is that most environmentalists now agree that getting business to operate more sustainably will be a critical part of solving any of the major environmental problems we face today.

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Win this HP Desktop Computer on Earth Day!

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