Yahoo! Green was a website created by
Yahoo!
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that gathered news, ideas, and discussion about ways to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle. It included numerous ideas on conserving natural resources and limiting consumption and waste.
Subheadings and features
One of the main subheadings was a news board called "Climate Change News." This gathered many news items, from around the
World
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, which were related to climate change on a variety of levels. It constituted of a significant appearance of climate change news as a separate news category at a major website.
The site also links to
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility. Questions were orga ...
and displays related questions and answers from Yahoo users. This constitutes just one way of enabling users to add content.
Closure
The site's environmental content was merged into Yahoo! Shine at the start of 2012, with minimal to no updates. In early 2014, Yahoo! Shine was closed and some of the content redirected to Yahoo! Health.
See also
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Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seek ...
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Green politics
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. Wall 2010. p. 12-13. It b ...
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References
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"Lights out for Yahoo's Shine site, Xobni email apps, other products"PCWorld, Jul 2, 2014
Green
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American political websites
American environmental websites