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  Heart of Green Awards Honor Green Progress

  The Heart of Green Awards honor individuals and organizations for their work helping green go mainstream. Winners included Alicia Silverstone, Deidre Imus, and Summer Rayne Oakes. Awards included local winners, such as Greg Perry, who brought environmentalism to Beachwood High School in Ohio by ...

  Rich Wingerter added 6 months ago

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  Affordable Housing Developers Congregate

  Members of the Council for Energy Friendly Affordable Housing (part of NHRA) will meet next week in Los Angeles for a  Green Housing Symposium. About 6% of homes are federally assisted, and developers are looking for ways to leverage money from the recent stimulus package, which should result in ...

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  Carbon Nanotube Lamp Begins to Glow

  A 1.4 micrometre nanotube has become the smallest incandescent lamp in an experiment to study quantum effects. The filament will be used to test Planck's black-body-radiation law (which predicts how light will be emitted by matter under the assumption it is made up of discrete packets of energy).

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  UK Moves to Collecting Food Waste

  Homes in South Oxfordshire will get new recycling bins that include a small bin for food waste with a lockable lid and a smaller caddy to keep in the kitchen. Almost  any kind of food will be accepted and will then be diverted to be composted.

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  Lights Out in Harmony

  The town of Harmony, FL, is the recipient of the Dark Sky Development of Distinction Award of the International Dark-Sky Association. The award honors communities that actively promote a more natural night sky. The community tries to incorporate and protect nature using elements of the urban ...

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