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Thu, Jun. 19, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by White Rhino
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Our IT Support Analyst is Off the Grid at his Desk

Dan O'Shaughnessy Sr., IT Support Analyst at Seventh Generation, is off the Grid at his desk Here is what he did: I took an off the shelf RV solar panel (up to 15 watts of solar power) to charge a deep cycle marine battery (12 volts, 125 amp hours) with a 7 map charge controller to keep the panel...
Mon, Jun. 16, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by the Inkslinger

The Price We Pay

The report says that while it might not be cheap to engineer the 80% reduction in emissions we need to head the climate crisis off at the pass, the bill is peanuts compared to the one we'll get if we choose to simply sit back and wait for what scientists say is the inevitable. The burden of...
Sun, Jun. 15, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by White Rhino

Bonnaroo: Last Day

The sixteen of us from Seventh Generation, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Yestermorrow Design School, and Do Your Part looked a bit weary this morning. Five days of Bonnaroo-ing is documentary in and of itself. We have some interesting stories... We have signed up 3,000 folks who have pledged to...
Sun, Jun. 15, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by White Rhino

Bonnaroo Update: Day 3 - Do Your Part Carbon Tracker

We are signing folks up left and right to pledge a 10% reduction in their carbon footprint by Festival 2009. People here are psyched to join in, do the Low Carbon Diet and encourage others to join in. Yeah. We are using the Do Your Part Carbon Tracker as a tool for people to measure their...
Sat, Jun. 14, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by White Rhino

Bonnaroo Update: Meetup with Home Grown: a Farm Aid Project

I metup with Cornelia Hoskin who works with Farm Aid and who is working on a project called Home Grown. Very cool project, and a project that has a huge impact on someone's carbon footprint. Check out the video on what they are up to. Click here for the next Bonnaroo post