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California Schools Splurge For Solar Panels To Save Money

September 19, 2011

It’s no surprise to hear that the California public school system is strapped for cash.  Budget cuts in the millions have caused some schools to lay off their staff and increase the number of students in each classroom.  Some schools however have chosen to spend millions of extra dollars to pay for solar panels instead.  [...]

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Burning Man Festival Promotes Sustainable Living

September 17, 2011

Burning Man is an annual festival unlike any other.  For one week every year, tens of thousands of people from all over the globe gather in Nevada to create the temporary Black Rock City.  Once it is over, the crowd scatters without leaving any trace whatsoever of its existence.  In the past four years, the festival [...]

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Greenpeace Celebrates 40 Years Of Action

September 15, 2011

Forty years ago today, a small group of activists originally named the Don’t Make A Wave Committee set sail on an old fishing boat called “The Greenpeace,” with hopes that they could stop a US nuclear weapons test on the Amchitka island off the shores of Alaska.  The boat was stopped by the US Navy [...]

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Green Tech High School Academy Debated In California

September 15, 2011

As California experiences overarching budget cuts for education, one school district in Lodi wants to build an expensive alternative to traditional public education.  The proposed plan is for an academy-style high school centered on green technology.  Features to the school will include an on-site water treatment plant, solar panels, wind power turbines, green roofs, garden [...]

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Al Gore’s Climate Campaign “24 Hours Of Reality”

September 14, 2011

Former Vice President Al Gore has created a new multimedia campaign through his Climate Reality Project that hopes to educate the world about the facts of climate change.  The “24 Hours Of Reality” event begins at 8 pm Eastern Time on September 14 and continues straight for 24 hours.  A global event, the program will [...]

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Historic Low For Ice Levels In Arctic

September 13, 2011

Researchers from the University of Bremen in Germany report that the amount of ice in the Arctic Sea has melted to a historic low since scientists started observing levels by satellite in 1972.  The North Pole skull cap shrank a half a percent below the previous record on September 8, to a record 4.6 million [...]

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Garden Hose Venture To Decrease Global Warming

September 13, 2011

Intellectual Ventures, a self-proclaimed invention company in Bellevue, Washington, has proposed an unconventional idea to deal with global warming in this modern age.  While most environmentalists are trying to convince millions of people to change their behavior in order to stop global warming, the company Intellectual Ventures has taken a different route.  The task as [...]

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