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HP Ranked #1 Green Company (What!?)
4:40PM Don Nguyen | Newsweek’s latest Green Rankings gave Hewlett Packard the top position, establishing the firm as the greenest Fortune 500 company this year — a far cry from Greenpeace’s #14 ranking. So what gives? More »
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Greenpeace Scales HP Headquarters To Finger Paint Roof In Protest
1:40AM Sean Fallon | If you happen to be flying over the city of San Francisco, HP headquarters will be easy to spot. It will be the building with the words “Hazardous Products” finger painted on the roof. More »
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I’d Feel So Grounded Wearing These Electronic Root Boots
11:40AM Brian Lam | I found a little glen amongst the cold glass and steel of the ITP projects. In it, a sprite or tree spirit or alanis morissette clonette was wearing these thrumming, bark-covered, tree-loving, meditation boots. More »
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New Weapon Against Hippies: Wi-Fi
1:40AM Matt Buchanan | The town of Glastonbury is overrun with hippies, drawn there by the healing energies in the area. Which have been destroyed by the town’s new Wi-Fi network, apparently making them all sick. More »
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People Who Hate Technology Are Total Freaks
9:40AM Matt Buchanan | If you’ve ever had suspicions about the kind of people that totally shun technology (aside from the Amish), it turns out that your stereotyping was in the right: They’re absolute freaks. MTV profiled some of these Luddites in an episode of True Life, “I Live Off the Grid,” and they make even the weirdest, most obsessed geeks around seem normal. Besides smelling like crap (for various reasons), living outside, and never, ever getting to do anything awesome, you have to respect old clams. Don’t they make you feel so much better about reading Giz? [Jezebel] More »
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