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  Seattle updates recycling rules 0

  Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

  Seattle's adding a fourth "R" to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra: required. Starting Monday, all single-family homes in the city will be required to sign up (and pay) for food/yard-waste service.

• Ask Umbra’s video advice on how to be a green drunk 0

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

• New breed of houses makes use of carbage 0

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

• Everything about this idea is recycled ... even the idea 1

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

• On the greenness of Jimmy Fallon’s set 0

  Posted 9 months ago

• Electronics industry takes own temperature at Greener Gadgets 1

  Posted 9 months ago

• British recycling site to feature celeb cast-offs 0

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• All Set

  Umbra on LCD vs. plasma TVs 5

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• Ask Umbra’s video advice on reusing your toothbrush 0

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• The Resolution Will Be Digitized

  Umbra on the digital conversion 4

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• This weekend’s NBA All-Star Game to be greenish 0

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

• Green lifestyle blamed for England’s rodent woes 6

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

• Computer maker expands recycling efforts 1

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

• An eco-friendly Valentine’s Day guide for the bitter and alone 2

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

• SNL serves up a solution to the great diaper debate 3

  Posted 10 months ago

• Toymakers bank on kids’ love of trash 0

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

• Thar She Blows

  A nosy review of recycled facial tissue 12

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

  As any sensitive nose knows, the quest for facial tissues that are gentle on you -- and the earth -- is nothing to sneeze at. Is it possible to find a strong, soft schnoz-swiper that doesn't strip the forest?

• Where There's Smoke, There's ... Radiation?

  Umbra on smoke detectors 3

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

• Will the U.S. Postal Service permit a practically indestructible material to be reused? 4

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

• Digital TV delay could be win for environment 3

  Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago

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