{"id":5493,"date":"2009-12-31T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:29:04","slug":"sustainablog-favorite-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sustainablog-favorite-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of sustainablog ’09: Your Favorite Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With just a few hours until 2010, I thought I’d take a quick look back at some of the posts you liked this year (or, at least, that got a lot of pageviews). Look for more of this kind of content in the New Year… we’re ready to roll!<\/p>\n

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  1. Eat Chips, Save Trash<\/a>: One L.A. Guy\u2019s Almost Zero-waste Year:<\/strong> Our most popular post of the year introduced Dave Chameides<\/a>, an LA resident who radically reduced his amount of trash in ’08… while still eating chips and drinking beer. Thanks to Low Impact Living<\/a> for sharing this one…<\/li>\n
  2. The Top Causes of Global Warming<\/a>: Natural or Human?:<\/strong> It is a bit of a shame that we still have to answer this question, but people are still asking… so I was happy to cover some of the evidence pointing to the primary impact of human activity on climate change.<\/li>\n
  3. Honey Bees on Cocaine Change Ideas about the Insect Brain<\/a>:<\/strong> Gavin Hudson took a look at an unusual experiment with honey bees… and what it taught us about insect behavior.<\/li>\n

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  4. 12 Greenest Colleges and Universities<\/a> in the U.S.: <\/strong>Tim Hurst’s overview of the colleges and universities taking giant strides towards sustainability was a huge<\/em> reader favorite…<\/li>\n
  5. Boxed Water<\/a>, Anyone?:<\/strong> Is boxed water better than bottled water? Sean Sullivan examined the broader concept of water in disposable containers… and wasn’t particularly impressed with this “greener” alternative.<\/li>\n
  6. Standardized Cell Phone Chargers<\/a> are on Their Way:<\/strong> Think product-specific phone chargers are nuts? So did Robin Shreeves, who found out that the phone manufacturing industry was finally getting it on standardized chargers.<\/li>\n
  7. The 10 Greenest Cities<\/a> in the U.S.:<\/strong> Tom Schueneman took a look at MNN<\/a>‘s list of the top green cities in the United States. Not many surprises here, but lots of great examples for other localities…<\/li>\n
  8. Pesticide Lobby Bugged by Michelle Obama<\/a>\u2019s White House Organic Garden:<\/strong> We loved the new White House organic garden<\/a>… but, according to Elizabeth Balkan, a pesticide trade group did not… imagine that!<\/li>\n
  9. Rethinking Food Production<\/a> for a World of Eight Billion:<\/strong> We were thrilled when the Earth Policy Institute<\/a> joined Environmental Defense Fund<\/a> as a non-profit contributor to sustainablog… this post illustrates why.<\/li>\n
  10. Cash for Clunkers<\/a>: What Will They Do with all Those Old Cars?: <\/strong>Everyone was talking about Cash for Clunkers… including Robin Shreeves, who wanted to know what would happen to the old cars traded in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All of those posts were published when sustainablog was a member of the GO Media Network<\/a>… here are a couple that you’ve liked since we went back out on our own:<\/p>\n