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Grandma – Avoided meat because it was too expensive. – Walked most places. – Bought vegetables and fruits from neighbors’ farms. – Reused tinfoil. – Used vinegar for cleaning because it was cheap and did the trick. Granddaughter – Avoids meat because she’s a vegetarian. – Drives a hybrid car. – Buys locally grown food [...]

The campaign will get rolling on NBC’s pregame show, Football Night in America, which leads into the national broadcast of the Cowboys-Redskins game at 8:15 p.m. NBC Universal will use its NFL franchise to kick off its second annual Green Week, a multiplatform programming and community affairs initiative designed to drive awareness of eco-friendly lifestyle [...]

Yes, you can and should recycle plastic grocery bags.  Many cities stopped accepting plastic bags for recycling because the bags damaged sorting equipment at the city’s transfer stations. However, most grocery stores have recycling bins with names such as "Bag 2 Bag" and "Bag Station," where discarded bags are made into new bags or even plastic [...]

Guest post by Owen Paepke. The globe is warming because incoming solar energy exceeds the heat lost through an atmosphere laden with GHGs. This kind of systemic energy imbalance is a common engineering problem, and any first year thermodynamics student knows to attack it on both ends—increase outflow and decrease inflow. But our policy makers and opinion [...]

First Solar has been selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of solar panels made at its plants in Ohio, Germany and Malaysia, but nearly all of them have gone to build huge solar-power plants in Europe and Asia. The company said it inked a deal with Foster City, Calif.-based SolarCity Corp. to sell the [...]