Everyone's talkin' about water these days, as they should be! Some say water's our next oil. I say water is something we need to realize is precious, so therefore use it wisely. Speaking of water, we launched our 2009 company-wide Eco Challenge August 1st and we're focusing on our water use. Our goal is to decrease our water use by 10%. I'm about to find out how we've done for August by reading our East Bay Mud water meter and you didn't think my job was exciting?!? One of the fun parts about this challenge is the neato placards we…

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The Clif Bar band (aka The Dung Beetles) pulled down one more rung on our continuing - mostly accidental - rise toward obscurity last Tuesday, as we helped kick off the Cool Globes (:hot ideas for a cooler planet) art installation on Crissy Field, along the historic San Francisco waterfront. In short, local, national, international, even school aged children artfully designed and decorated 5’x5’ globes to help raise awareness and inspire action to help mitigate current Global Warming trends…aaand we were there to help get the party started (the exhibit will remain on Crissy Field from Aug 5 – Oct…

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I'm usually not a cup-half-empty kinda girl, however, sometimes with all the not-so-happy news floating around, it's easy to get a little bummed, especially when I read about the current state of affairs. It just so happens that when I arrived at work today, feeling a little blah, I came across this nugget of very cool news. I opened my email to find my Daily Grist; and as I read, I learned that the Republic of Congo has approximately 125,000 more lowland Gorillas living in the northern part of the country than previously expected. How cool is that? They say…

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The problem with all of this sustainability business for me is that I can’t look at anything, anywhere without thinking about what kind of impact it had, has or will have on the earth. That’s one of the reasons I kept my cell phone for nearly four years! Everywhere I went, people laughed and were shocked and they told me to get rid of it because it was big; so ugly; because it didn’t flip or have a camera…what happened to making calls and receiving them? Yes, I know I could have recycled it, but as you can imagine, it…

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Today is Bike to Work Day and we thought we’d take advantage of it. We set a slightly lofty goal—get 75 folks from the office commuting in on a bike (or carpooling, or walking). If you didn’t get a chance to bike to work today, here’s a virtual bike to work day series from my trip in this morning with Tara… We met up in the city. On our way to BART, we ran into Melissa and her crew. We weaved through downtown San Francisco. We ran into Lisa on the train. We popped out at the North Berkeley station…

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