We presented this story in October, but it is a fitting documentary for Earth Day. It tells the story of a man who convinced his family to go totally environmental.

The gold, silver and bronze medallions slung around winning athletes’ necks as they step on to the winners’ podium at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games could well be made from the guts of an old Belgian computer.

The manufacturer of medals for this Olympics is for the first time incorporating token amounts of recycled material into the medals. Medals historically have been made of freshly mines ores.

The innovation – though largely symbolic – was directed by an Olympic organising committee which had vowed to put on the greenest games ever, raising the bar for London in 2012.

Some think it’s funny; some think it’s the worst Super Bowl commercial of the bunch. It seems funnier the second time around.

Mega-yachts are inherently evil, right? Maybe not. The Wall Street Journal reports that pollution-spewing, fuel- guzzling mega-yachts have been enlisted by the International Seakeepers Society, an ocean research group, to collect data on the oceans and seas.

The Seakeepers have installed scientific equipment on more than 30 mega-yachts and . . . “collected more than 300 million meteorologic, climatological and oceanographic measurements.” WSJ

Queen Elizabeth shows she knows how to go green.
Queen Elizabeth boarded a regularly scheduled commuter train yesterday for her trip from London to the royal estate at Sandringham for the Christmas holidays. The Queen and her security detail sat in a first-class compartment, which was separated from other passengers by a glass partition.
The Daily Mail reports that her fellow commuters were quite taken by surprise to see their 83 year-old monarch with a silk headscarf appear at King’s Cross.
The Queen’s son, Prince Charles, was recently in the news for traveling to …

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Anna Getty, author of the new book I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas, discusses how to make the holiday season more eco-friendly with tips, craft ideas and recipes, in an interview with Jacki Lyden of NPR.
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