Wow… okay, this is a new one on me…
You can read more about what they are about and what they’ve done in a PDF book that they provide you free… http://www.n55.dk/N55_BOOK_PDF/N55BOOK.pdf One thing I gleaned from my bried visit was that they are advocating life without borders… interesting concept.
This is by far the coolest thing I have seen online lately. You owe it to yourself to broaden your mind looking at it. These folks are serious.
With the rise in environmental awareness, it has become obvious that there is more we can do to create a sustainable society. If everyone in the world would take just a few small steps, make a few different choices, and think about their impact on the world, there might be a way to restore the world to its original beauty and resources. Let’s look at a few different places where these steps can be taken – you may just find that you too can save the world.
Your home is where you spend a majority of your time, so it seems safe to say that steps taken there will do the most good (or harm) for the environment. Thankfully, many of the changes that you can make are simple and will not affect your day to day living.
In the workplace, you can follow many of the same steps that you did at home. But you will also want to think of following some of these:
When you’re on the road and traveling, you can also save the environment. Simply make sure to keep little off of the road and recycle any plastics or aluminum cans that you might use. You can also try to drive to various areas instead of flying, as this reduces your overall environmental impact.
And speaking of going green it’s just as important to build green from the beginning… Green building means the resource-efficient design, construction, and operation of your home. It is an approach to building and marketing homes that highlights environmental quality.
Is a steel framed house considered green? Yes, yes, yes! The Green Building Resource Guide gives steel framing its highest 5 icon rating. Steel in construction has about a 70% recycled content. It is resource efficient because there is very little waste, and it will not rot or be consumed by termites. Steel studs are also available with thermal breaks that allow less heat loss than wood. Also, steel is nontoxic because it will not off-gas and contaminate indoor air quality. Since steel screws together, steel members can be unscrewed and reused when a structure is demolished providing a structure for another residence. Steel structures have many environmental benefits and are considered very green.
General Steel is one of the most recognized names in the industry for top-quality pre-engineered steel buildings. General Steel is a company that has a reputation for excellence in the Steel building industry. They are into manufacturing of Steel Agricultural Buildings, steel aircraft hangars.
For all of you who have your own blogs or website…
YAHOO and MSN Search have announced that they will support the popular format for XML-Sitemaps which was invented by Google in 2005.
In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all three engines can use to track updates to pages. This should make it easier to get your pages indexed in a simple and standardized way. People who use Google Sitemaps don’t need to change anything, those maps will now be indexed by Yahoo and Microsoft.
Source: TechCrunch
“Sitemap Creator”will create a Google Sitemap from your Blog and it’s Posts. This will help you get every page in your Blog listed in the Google
To install Plugins just copy the downloaded Plugin to your Wordpress Plugins directory. Then you can access their features in the Wordpress admin panel. The plugin directory is yourhost.com/yourwordpressdirectory/wp-content/plugins
Arne has updated the xml-namespace definitions in the new beta version of his XML-Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin to the new sitemaps.org standard.
Yahoo has already updated their Site Explorer so you can submit your sitemap to YAHOO and Google. MSN is still doing internal testing and should be on board soon.
If you’d like to read more about Sitemaps
Okay, I finally found the motherload of all ‘What YOU can do to Go Green’ lists… LOL
100 Ways to Save the Environment
How to conserve energy in your home, reduce toxicity, protect the air and water… even what you can do at work. Excellent list to print out and refer to from time to time. It helps to get it in front of you and everyone else too… print it out and post it at the office bulletin board, write one thing a week on your calendar to focus on.
Create a sustainable improvement ‘thing’ of the week with your family or neighbors. It’s more FUN when you’re doing it with someone else and it builds in accountability. I used to manage fitness centers ‘back in the day’ and we promoted the buddy system with great success.. try it, it’s FUN!
They even have a printer friendly pdf created for you.
100 Ways to Save the Environment Printer Ready .pdf
And this was actually from a link that was sent to me at my hosting company GoGreen Hosting Here’s what the email actually said,
Hello, I would like to introduce you to GoGreenNews.com. It is a user driven social content site where anyone who cares about the environment can submit news and stories about “going green”. Our mission is to encourage members to submit and share news about how “going green” and “going green” is helping and changing the world around them. Everyone is allowed to submit any newsworthy story from around the world. Every story on the site that makes it to the front page is due to the users of the site promoting the stories. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or comments. I can be reached me at info@GoGreenNews.com Please tell a friend today. Thank you for your time. Regards, Nicola Louise http://www.GoGreenNews.com http://www.GoGreenNewswire.com
So I told you. 
In 100 years, we’ve gone from horse and buggy to over 14 million cars. Increased road rage and gridlock affect everyone. One of the greatest benefits of sharing the ride to work is taking the stress out of driving. Rather than beginning the day irritated from fighting traffic and searching endlessly for parking, you’ll arrive ready to take on the task at hand.
There is another, more tragic cost related to automobile use: degradation of our environment. Every day, millions of vehicles pump pollutants into our atmosphere. Some of these fall to earth, fouling streams and contaminating crops. Others rise into the stratosphere, damaging the ozone layer and causing global climate warming – the greenhouse effect.
Still more of these pollutants cling close to earth, inhaled with every breath we take. Air pollution is a proven cause in several lung ailments, from asthma to emphysema.
Ridesharing reduces the impact of automobiles on our roadways and our environment very simply – by travelling in groups rather than alone, ridesharing decreases the number of vehicles on our roads. Not only this but also cost incurred on fuel would be greatly reduced.
Ridesharing will also help in reducing hassles we face due to fewer parking spaces available.
Commuters that live near each other and share a common destination form the simplest and most common “carpool” arrangement. Carpooling is an ideal cost saving arrangement, particularly for those individuals who commute long distances to and from work each day, have limited access to public transit and few transportation options available to them. There are sites on the internet like Indimoto.com which help users in getting carpool/rideshare matches in their city and locality.
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