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Get CA$H for Your E-Waste

AZ_Sun — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:31:38 -0500

Get some GREEN and be GREEN for the environment by keeping your E-Waste out of landfills.

Recycling is getting easier each year and now there are a few websites that make it painless to recycle your old electronics and some offer you CASH for all your old cell phones, iPods, laptops, digital cameras, GPS and gaming systems.

Here are a few of them you can check out.

Gazelle.com not only buys back your e-waste but also allows you to earn money with their referral program.

Venjuvo.com is one web site that buys back HDTV’s as well as other electronics.

CellforCash.com recycles and pays cash for cell phones only.

TechForward.com allows you to lock in your future trade-in values for computers and consumer electronics today, so you don’t have to guess what your devise will be worth a year or two from now.

MyBoneYard.com accepts only laptops, desktop PCs, cell phones and flat-panel monitors, and gives Visa gift cards rather than cash.

Current market data determines how much these sites can offer for an item. When something no longer has market value and can't be reused, they keep it available for recycling and work with recycling partners that are recognized as among the best in the industry to ensure that everything that comes in is recycled responsibly.

I am only on my third cell phone and I’m STILL using my Motorola StarTAC. This very OLD model has absolutely no market value but is still in perfect working condition, so I will happily just keep using it till it dies.

Support Global Green's "Rebuilding New Orleans Green" VOTE TODAY!

11thhouraction — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:47:06 -0500

Global Green USA wants your help to further the green rebuilding of New Orleans even more by nominating the Rebuilding New Orleans Green project for American Express Members Project '08. American Express is offering $2.5 million dollars in funding total to support exciting and innovative ideas that make a difference in the world.

Read the message from Matt Petersen, President of Global Green USA here.

Environmental Educational Tool for Teachers and Students.

mhaney — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:59:00 -0500

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Anchorage, Alaska, to Install 16,000 LED Streetlights; Will Save $360,000 per Year

11thhouraction — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:48:24 -0500

LED Streetlights in Anchorage, Alaska
We told you that LED streetlights were coming. The latest town to get them is Anchorage, Alaska. The municipality, along with Cree, Inc, a maker of LED lights, are planning to change 16,000 municipal roadway lights with high-efficiency LED fixtures (about 1/4 of total streetlights).

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'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

11thhouraction — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:43:46 -0500

In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.

Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today's announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.

Americans ditching the car

11thhouraction — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:03:48 -0500

Commuters are driving less, the federal government says. Workers are leaving their cars at home and finding other ways to get to work. Highway funds at risk.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with a year earlier, according to a report Monday from the Federal Highway Administration.

North America’s Largest Environmental Competition

AZ_Sun — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:22:55 -0500

More than 265 teenagers from 44 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces will meet at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff this week to participate as finalists in North America's largest high-school environmental-education competition, the 2008 Canon Envirothon.

The Canon Envirothon is an annual competition in which winning state/provincial teams compete for recognition and scholarships by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. The teams, each consisting of five high school-aged students exercise their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Green Becomes Official Color of Baseball

11thhouraction — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39:57 -0500

NEW YORK -- When baseball's legendary greats came rolling up Sixth Avenue this month for the annual Hall of Fame parade, the familiar red carpet was distinctly green.

That's not talking about the hue.

The carpet, stretching for 20 blocks through Midtown, was made entirely of recycled fiber and manufactured using solar and wind power.

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Kits To Ease Recycling of CFLs

AZ_Sun — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:31:12 -0500

Box up & mail CFLs, batteries and electronics with Think Green® From Home recycling kits.

The nation's largest waste-management provider launched a new program this week that allows consumers to recycle household wastes like compact fluorescent lightbulbs and batteries without leaving their homes.

Eventually, the program will be expanded to include small electronics, such as iPods and cellphones.

Waste Management Inc.'s ThinkGreenFromHome.com is an online service that allows residents to order - for $14.95 - a prepaid-postage kit in which they can dispose and recycle their CFL bulbs and batteries.

The lightbulb kit holds up to 15 10-watt CFLs. When full, it can be mailed back to the company, which will turn the CFLs over to one of its divisions that already recycles such materials for commercial businesses.

"Waste Management is looking at a lot of things as it relates to recycling materials and keeping certain items out of the waste stream," said Don Cassano, director of public affairs for Waste Management of Arizona.

Because CFLs contain mercury, government agencies have been trying to discourage residents from placing them in their trash and sending them to landfills.

Options for recycling have been somewhat limited, one could take their bulbs to one of several private businesses for disposal.

Late last month, choices expanded when the Home Depot announced their National CFL Bulb Recycling Program where they would collect CFLs free of charge. Customers can bring any used, unbroken CFL bulbs to the return counter. The store will package it and transport it to a facility for recycling.

Waste Management's program gives consumers another option by allowing them to recycle without leaving the comfort of their home, so long as they're willing to pay the fee.

"The real key is to make it convenient for consumers," said Don Cassano

For more information on the Waste Management program, visit www.ThinkGreenFromHome.com

Source: The Arizona Republic

Amazing Stat: California Uses More Gas than China

11thhouraction — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:40:31 -0500

Given all the news coverage about the rise of the Chinese economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that the world's most populous country is hogging all the world's resources, while the developed nations are fighting for scraps.

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