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76% of US Consumers Want E-Waste Recycling

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

E-Waste Recycling

A recent study released by Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm, has confirmed that most American electronic consumers are aware of the burgeoning e-waste problem and believe the best course of action is recycling.

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Bottle Bank Arcade Brings Loads of Fun To Glass Recycling

November 19th, 2009 · No Comments


The Bottle Bank Arcade in Stockholm, Sweden

We’ve always believed that our children will learn how to recycle and care for the environment quite quickly if fun is injected into the teaching-learning process by parents. Obviously, we adults tend to also absorb ideas faster or change our habits for the better if there’s fun in doing it.

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How To Run A Cell Phone Collection Drive For Your Charity or Non-Profit

November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

cell phone collection drive

Every charity organization or non-profit seems to be doing cell phone or computer collection drives these days. Is it still worthwhile for your organization to collect old cell phones to help raise funds?

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How To Donate Cell Phones To Charity or Non-Profit

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

donate cell phones

Every year, 100 million cell phones are replaced or discarded in the United States. Less than 20% of this total are recycled or sent back to the manufacturers – the rest are lost, thrown to trash bins, or kept in drawers.

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Top Ten Recycling and Environmental Stories Of The Week (Nov.9-15) at Green Options

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

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Community urban garden in Philadelphia

Here are the our top 10 pick of the most interesting and informative recycling and environmental stories at Green Options Environment:

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Severn Suzuki – “The Girl Who Silenced The World”

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Severn-Suzuki

Severn Cullis-Suzuki was only 12 years old when she spoke before the UN earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. A child speaking before adults representing all the countries in the world – yet her speech was anything but childish. It was a galvanizing admonition and an appeal to everyone to help stop the destruction of the earth’s resources:
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Top 7 Environment Stories of the Week at Green Options

November 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In line with our activities to fully integrate this blog to the web 2.0 communities on the internet, we’ve recently established our own bookmarking site called Green Options to put together in one convenient location all the latest and the best recycling and environmental stories published across the web. Powered by Corank, users of the site can submit their own handpicked stories and vote all submitted articles up or down.

Here’s a digest of some of the top stories submitted under the Environment category at Green Options:

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New York City – Greenest Place in America?

October 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Back in college, a few years ago, my model for the perfect environment-friendly lifestyle was the Walden Pond of Henry David Thoreau. Far from the bustling metropolis and in close communion with nature, nothing could be greener, or so I thought.

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WILD9 and The Ride of The Jaguars

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments

WILD9 - The Jaguars

Boulder, CO – Four wilderness lovers and conservation professionals from England, Canada and the U.S., calling themselves “The Jaguars,” departed Albuquerque, New Mexico on the afternoon of October 27, 2009, on a motorcycle odyssey to Merida, Mexico to attend WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress, which runs from Nov. 6 – 13, 2009.

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NASA Successfully Launched Ares I-X Test Rocket

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched its Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, October 28, 2009 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spectacular test flight lasted for 6 minutes from launch to splashdown (of the rocket’s booster stage) 150 miles downstream.

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