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King County announces Green World Cup
King County’s Eco Consumer Tom Watson is hosting an international green contest to go along with the Soccer World Cup championship starting today in South Africa. He is calling it the Green World Cup.
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He is asking everyone to submit stories about the ways that people in other parts of the world are going green! The best stories will be featured on the King… »
Rosa Parks Elementary Goes Green with Yolo Paint and American Clay!
Congratulations to Rosa Parks Elementary in San Francisco – one of three Grand Prize Winners of the CBS & EcoZone Green My School Contest!
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In total, 45 schools across the nation participated in the contest. Each participating school submitted a short standard submission form and a creative response exploring what being green means to them and why their… »
Add Your Voice! Copenhagen 2010
The UN Climate Change Summit starts next week! Here are two petitions that you can sign to add your voice to the international call for… »
GREEN FESTIVAL: San Francisco
Though we’ve been regulars at the Seattle event, Ecohaus just exhibited at the San Francisco Green Festival for the first time this year, and it was… »
New Zero Energy Idea House in Washington
A new project has just been completed in Washington State that strives to push the envelope of energy conservation – the Zero Energy Idea House – built by Donna and Riley Shirey. Their goal was to build a house that generates all the electricity that it requires. Combining solar panels, and a solar powered water heater… »
Save Water: Wash your hands in the Toilet!
Caroma has long been the world’s leader in dual flush toilets, and now they have taken water-savings to a whole new level. By incorporating a hand-washing basin right into the tank of their toilet, Caroma has made it easy for people to conserve even more.
They started with a High-Efficiency Dual Flush Toilet (two flush options:… »
Seattle Loves to Recycle Electronic Waste!
The final numbers are in! It was the hottest day of the year and traffic was at it’s absolute ugliest but that did not dampen people’s passion for sustainable waste solutions!
At our Seattle Waste Alternatives and Electronics Recycling event on July 29th, Seattlites turned in 36,931 pounds of old electronics! That means that nearly 18.5… »
It’s BIG Time in Portland – Build It Green!
The eighth annual Build it Green Tour of Homes and Information Fair is coming up this Saturday (September 19th, 2009!)
Between 11am and 5pm nearly 20 eco-friendly homes will be holding open houses around the city. Ticket holders will be given the locations – and can go from house to house learning innovative and sustainable ideas… »
New Carbon Offsets for the Pacific Northwest
Now you can buy carbon credits in Pacific Northwest forestland – keeping the benefits of carbon sequestration local!… »
Imagine if…
Ecohaus believes that the global community can stretch our natural resources further, diminish the occurrence of many chronic health problems, promote the growth of local economies, and decrease the release of harmful greenhouse… »