{"id":7770,"date":"2010-07-02T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T16:11:06","slug":"green-blog-posts-7210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-blog-posts-7210\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday: Great Green Blog Posts for the Week (7\/2\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Yes,youcanstaycoolwithoutairconditioning...thisandmoreatFiveforFriday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7775\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning.jpg\" alt=\"air conditioning\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/air-conditioning-186x186.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up until now, I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on green blogosphere trends through the usual suspects &#8212; Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, etc. &#8212; \u00a0and extrapolating&#8230; not exactly precise, but it worked with my current set-up. I finally dug into <a href=\"http:\/\/regator.com\">Regator<\/a>, a service that I discovered through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\">Problogger<\/a>&#8216;s weekly &#8220;Blogosphere Trends&#8221; posts, and see how this will provide much more precise insight (as well as more efficient means of discovering some of the lesser trends).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I didn&#8217;t need Regator to tell me that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is still the hot topic, followed relatively closely by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\">Tesla Motor&#8217;s IPO<\/a>. My biggest surprise, though: Hurricane Alex didn&#8217;t seem to get a lot of attention on this front. Think that&#8217;s because it had relatively little impact on the US? Or didn&#8217;t directly into oil spill territory, even as it did effect clean-up and containment efforts?<\/p>\n<p>So, what did grab my attention this week? As always, lots of competition&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>This Week&#8217;s Five for Friday Green Blog Posts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Climategate, Amazongate, and the Big Lie: <\/strong>Jim Hoggan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\">DeSmogBlog<\/a> took a look at how<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/lies-concocted-climate-deniers-likely-stick-around-despite-corrections\"> stories such as Climategate and the more recent Amazongate<\/a> have continued to fuel climate change deniers even as they&#8217;ve been retracted or otherwise proven much less damning than originally claimed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trade your recyclables for plants: <\/strong>Sort of a Redbox for recycling, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbangardensweb.com\/2010\/07\/01\/ecobox-rewards-recyclers-with-plants\/\">Ecobox<\/a> concept by French architect and designer Gilles Nadler would give recyclers a plant for depositing their materials. Great find by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbangardensweb.com\">Urban Gardens<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Ray gets recycled:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechicecologist.com\">The Chic Ecologist<\/a> takes a look at Futuremark, a company that&#8217;s able to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechicecologist.com\/2010\/06\/recycled-paper-magazines\/\">85-100% recycled paper for magazines<\/a> (which are generally use 100% virgin pulp). Rachel Ray was one of the first to push this for her own magazine&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wrong? Really?<\/strong> Kathryn Schulz, former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\">Grist<\/a> editor and author of <em>Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error<\/em>, returns to her old stomping ground to ask greenies &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-06-28-what-have-environmentalists-been-most-wrong-about\">What have we been wrong about?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Everything&#8217;s cool: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Green<\/a> republished Becky Stiepe&#8217;s great primer from <a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/care2\/15\/14-ways-to-keep-cool-in-your-home-without-air-conditioning.html;_ylt=AhZsDthhEciR1yyJaEjSAxOCV8cX\">Care2<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/care2\/15\/14-ways-to-keep-cool-in-your-home-without-air-conditioning.html\">how to keep cool without air conditioning<\/a> (yes, it can be done).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s our five&#8230; what&#8217;d you like this week?<\/p>\n<p><em>Take advantage of all of that summer sun: check out our wide range of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/renewable-energy\/solar-products\"><em>solar products<\/em><\/a><em>, including <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/renewable-energy\/solar-products\/solar-batteries\"><em>solar batteries<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/renewable-energy\/solar-products\/solar-kits\"><em>power kits<\/em><\/a><em>, 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