Local Environmental Service Projects
For those interested in contributing to or starting a environmental community service project, here are a few ideas as recommended by the EPA. 1. Planting trees Trees help to filter out dangerous...
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Rooftop Greenhouses
Transforming useless, black rooftops into prosperous, green gardens — that is the goal of Dr. Paul Mankiewicz. As director of the Gaia Institute, an environmental research group in New York City, he...
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Recycling for Charity
While recycling itself is a worthwhile endeavor, when intertwined with charitable organizations, its power for good is taken to far greater heights. A perfect example has been under way in St....
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Recycling Program Turns Bottles to Benches
Turning the fruits of a recycling program into tangible results has proven hugely successful for the Chicago Park District and the city’s residents. Chicago’s 563 parks are now being covered in...
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Green Living: What it’s Really About
When you hear the term “green living”, you may get an image in your head of hippies living in communes making everything they use. Truth is: the definition of green living has changed. The concept...
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Plastic Water Bottles – Environmental and Safety Issues
Americans buy over $22 billion plastic water bottles per year, which translates to over 70 million bottles consumed daily. Recent reports have many consumers confused as to whether it is safe to drink...
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Why Go Green – More to the Point, Why Not?
The new Obama administration has indicated a strong focus on developing America’s renewable energy resources. So whether you believe global warming is man-made, or purely a result of the earth’s...
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Green Living – Why I Made the Decision to Go Green
By Kathryn Lambert Until July, 2007, I lived in Michigan. Green living wasn’t really part of my life. Like all of my friends, I complained about my electric bill (especially in the winter!), I worried...
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What Are You Doing to Help?
With the planet in so much peril of just burning up all resources that are used to exist, it is little wonder that many are jumping on the bandwagon of living green in order to save what is left of...
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Kitchen Composting
Growing your own vegetables and herbs is highly fashionable again. Not only is it cheaper than buying them, but is also healthier, if they are grown organically. Instead of using chemical fertilizers,...
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What Are the Best Recycling Methods?
Many people think that recycling is the be all and end all of helping this planet, however, this is simply not true, as many people have seen there are no truly perfect ways for recycling but true...
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Go Green While Promoting
Environmentally friendly products and practices are becoming the way of the world and they are also a major part of life today. With the environment worsening under the weight of problems like...
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Renting as a Green Concept
Author: Lisa Whitaker So everyone is talking about going green. Sure, you’re not tooling a round the suburbs in an armored tank, but are you doing what you can to lower your impact on the...
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Garbage Glows Green in Placer County Spotlight
Going green has never been more popular. Look around, and it seems that just about every businesses is tripping over itself to showcase their efforts at embracing sustainability. There are many...
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