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[15 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 2,339 views]
Clean your Computer the Eco-Friendly Way!

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If you’re like me and you get a little bit of macabre pleasure from things like picking at scabs or biting at hangnails, you are probably similarly amorous of those little cans of compressed air.  There’s something supremely satisfying about using them to clean your keyboards –waking sleeping dustbunnies with a surprise burst, sending bits of cracker and lint flying at incalculable speeds.  Good times, good times.
BUT, it’s not so much with the eco-friendly. Nor …

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[19 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | 739 views]

Taproot Green Web Hosting is the proud Internet home of the American Center for Sustainability — a Portland-area grassroots organization who has, thus far, distributed over 65,000 plants, free of charge, to local farms, gardeners and non-profit organizations in Oregon.
ACS’s ongoing mission is to faithfully steward their 120 acre farm (Rain Fire Ranch) in Sherman County, Oregon.  As an introduction to Oregon’s sustainability community in 2007, ACS sowed 15,000 seeds and distributed the starts to local gardeners.
In 2008, ACS raised the bar to 50,000 and distributed those free of charge …