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TEB Sustainability Research Team

The TEB Sustainability Research Team covers practical environmental topics: renewable energy, sustainable homes, waste reduction, pollution, water, green technology, and responsible consumption. We dig through research papers, industry data, government guidance, and other trusted sources, then turn that information into something readers can actually use. Complex environmental subjects don't have to stay complicated. Our job is to make sense of them.

Environment

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January 5, 2011

Mystery bird deaths: Weather or Pollution?

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On New Year’s Eve thousands of red wing black birds showered a neighborhood in the small town of Bebee, AK. Wildlife officials investigating the massive bird kill believe fireworks may…

Green Tips

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December 22, 2010

The 7 Sins of Greenwashing

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1. Sin of the hidden trade-off – advertising based on a narrow aspect of the product while not reporting its entire environmental impact. 2. Sin of no proof. If a product’s claims about…

Other Stories

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November 22, 2010

The Willamette River Transit Bridge

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The Willamette River Transit Bridge is part of a larger project to extend 7.3 miles of the Portland Light Rail (MAX) to Milwaukie, Oregon (a suburb to the south). The…

Other Stories

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October 22, 2010

Rail~Volution

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developing real advocates for the Portland metropolitan region’s MAX Light Rail System. At the conference in 1994, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (District 3, Oregon) announced that in 1995, Rail~Volution would become…

Green Technology

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
October 1, 2010

Will The Nissan Leaf Thrive?

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According to the official Nissan Leaf website, Nissan has secured 20,000 reservations for the all electric zero emissions vehicle and is no longer accepting anymore. It calls the initial reservations…

Green Tips

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July 22, 2009

10 Tips for an Eco Romance

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Holding hands in the park, non stop flirty text messages in your inbox, the butterflies in your stomach. There is nothing like being in love whether it lasts for a…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 2, 2009

Mercury Levels Still on the Rise

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We all have heard that eating too much fish may be bad for your health, especially for pregnant woman. That fish you may love from your frequently visited sushi house…

Energy

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
April 21, 2009

America’s Renewable Energy Report Card

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Do as the Danes Would do. Obama said it well last week in Iowa on Earth day “I don’t think we should be followers, I think it’s time for us…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
March 22, 2009

The Arctic Ice Melting

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Scientists will warn this week that the projected sea level rise from IPCC’s most updated report in 2007 was underestimated. Scientists now feel that low lying areas including the Netherlands,…

Climate Change

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March 8, 2009

The Arctic Ice Melting

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Scientists will warn this week that the projected sea level rise from IPCC’s most updated report in 2007 was underestimated. Scientists now feel that low lying areas including the Netherlands,…