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Recycle Your Phones For Haiti
Two days after the earthquake hit Haiti, mobile phone recycler, ReCellular, launched their own disaster relief program in partnership with the American Red...
Pushcart Educator for the Poor Wins CNN Hero of the Year
(CNN) -- Efren Peñaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to provide an alternative to gang membership and bring education to poor...
Environment-Friendly Universal Phone Charger Approved
The International Telecommunication Union has given its stamp of approval to a new energy-efficient universal phone charger that will be compatible with all future...
Levi’s Clothing Care Tags to Include Instructions on Caring for the Planet
Starting next year, Levi Strauss will extend the idea of Care Tags for washing, drying and ironing, to add an encouragement for consumers to...
Government Leads By Example Greening its Business
With little fanfare, President Obama signed in early October an executive order that will reduce the carbon footprint of the federal government. Federal agencies...
Supermarket Powers Store Checkouts With Modified Speed Bumps
A British supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, opened a new store yesterday where the checkouts will be people-powered. The store features a new kinetic energy generator...
Boy Discovers Microbe that Eats Plastic
PhDs have been searching for a solution to the global plastic waste problem, but the solution may have come through a pair of...
Don’t Throw That Chip Bag Away! Give It Back to Frito-Lay, to Make into Handbag
Instead of tossing that bag of Doritos in the trash, consider sending it back to Frito-Lay. It might just get turned into a...
Long Awaited Hudson River Toxic Clean-up Begins
Calling it “An historic day for an historic river,” the EPA marked the start of dredging of the Upper Hudson River to remove PCB-contaminated...
San Francisco Now Recycles An Astonishing 72 Percent of All Trash
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced yesterday that San Francisco has attained a US recycling record by keeping 72% of all recyclable material out...
Earth Day Special: Schoolkids Sell Recycled Products to Raise Money for New Solar Panels
20 years ago, children in American classrooms only drew pictures of the planet and animals to commemorate Earth Day. Today, ecologically-friendly activities are...
Recyling Hero Crowned (Video)
Jennifer Gold recycled at home with her family, but when she realized her school lacked a recycling program, she took action. ...
Disney Company to Cut Carbon Emissions, Encourage Green Living
The Walt Disney Company has released a set of strategic environmental goals to reduce emissions, waste, electricity and fuel use, along with its impact...
Cruise Line Program ‘Ship to Shelter’ Donates Items Once Discarded
Until recently thousands of shampoo bottles and soaps, used or unused, from Holland Cruise ships all went one place: landfills. But now...
Students Encouraging Local Bars to Recycle Glass
Overland Park university seniors called 30 bars around Lawrence, Kansas asking them if they recycled glass. None of them did, so their new group,...
Green Business Finds Solution With Used Cardboard Boxes
Businesses dispose of cardboard shipping boxes by the truckload and recycling isn't always the best answer because the process of recycling cardboard requires a...
Wal-Mart Canada Opens First Environmental Demonstration Store
Wal-Mart Canada last week opened its first mega-green supercenter in Burlington, Ontario, which uses heat from the earth in a unique geothermal energy design,...
New Campaign Shows Garbage Isn’t Garbage at All
A new effort to help people see garbage in a different way is rolling through San Francisco neighborhoods: 3D garbage trucks that look like...
Former Gang Member Finds Purpose in Cambodia
Tuy "K.K." Sobil, a former gang member from California, has turned misfortune into opportunity, forming a dance and education center for Cambodian street...
Extra Cash? Turn in Your Techno-Junk for Money
As a hungry grad student, Brandon Mendelson can sum up his financial status in two painful words: “broke” and “desperate.” He needed quick cash...