Good stuff from around the greenosphere.

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  • Single Day Passes still available for this year’s Austin City Limits Music Fest 9/26-9/28, Zilker Park, Austin.  To support their carbon footprint offset program when you purchase your ticket, simply add five bucks when you make your ticket purchase.  More than 10,000 Fan Tag ticket buyers so far this year have supported this offset program.
  • Live Earth returns, December 7, telecasting from Mumbai, India, to over 100 countries.  Bon Jovi to perform, along with Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan and many others, proceeds to benefit “Light a Billion Lives,” to generate solar energy in homes in places where people do not have access to electricity. check it out @ Live Earth to help boost solar energy (reuters).
  • News from FutureNatural’s blog, OrganicBeautyView reminds us that unfortunately, Hair Dyes Could be Killing Us.
  • It seems that consumers are seeking more Apples than ever before. (more) Microsoft dumps Seinfeld’s (2) tv spots and replaces with a Microsoft employee, Sean Siller who bears a striking resemblance to John Hodgman (the”I’m a PC Guy”). Sorry, Jerry, tvland can be so cruel.
  • West Coasters interested in green building — West Coast Green, Thurs-Sat Sept. 25 – 27 at the San Jose Convention Center, (pre-registration Wed., 9/24).  David Suzuki, Michelle Kaufmann, authors Allison Arieff, Sarah Susanka, David Johnston and many other green thinkers and do-ers will be on hand to inform on top-of-mind issues like: Clearing the Air in your home, Clean Finishes and Clean Water, and Developing the Green Residential Market.
  • Led by green powerhouse, Beth Galante, Director of Global Green USA New Orleans, the first, green home of the Holy Cross Project, which features roof-mounted solar panels tough enough for the Gulf Coast — now serves as a Visitor Center to show everyone how to rebuild stronger and greener.  Designed to resist winds of up to 130 mph, this LEED Platinum home also generates all of its own electricity. Ultimately, the Holy Cross Project will provide housing for 23 families and feature a community center — all being built on the highest ground of the Ninth Ward.  Anyone looking to support the rebuilding of New Orleans can go to AMEX membersproject.com and vote for Global Green. The design by Workshop APD of New York City was awarded via a competition chaired by Brad Pitt. Hats off to Global Green for advocating the green rebuilding of New Orleans as a model for coastal cities everywhere.
  • Yay to Frances Beinecke President of NRDC and her staff, as well as to Earthjustice and 11 other conservation groups for their huge victory this past week.  Due to their efforts, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials threw up their hands in defeat — wolves will continue to be allowed to roam freely in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho — as the law states, and the best science has proven — that wolf populations have not yet fully recovered from their previous slaughter.
  • Happy to see a children’s oriented contest co-sponsored by Simon & Schuster’s Little Green Books and Eco-Libris. Enter the “I Can Save the Earth” Sweepstakes and win eco-friendly books as well as have trees planted in your name.