Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community

Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community

• How to Remodel an Existing Home
• Siting a New House and Choosing Green Building Materials
• Greening Schools and Hospitals
• Choosing Alternative Transportation
• Conserving Water

Go Green is an indispensable resource for those among us who are ready to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk! There is a huge movement already underway towards going green, living sustainably, and creating a smaller carbon footprint. This book provides the means to do so. Homeowners, students, professionals and elected officials can all learn valuable solutions to save money, energy and combat global warming. Go Green offers user-friendly suggestions for individuals, schools, hospitals, businesses and communities.

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Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community

Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community

Go Green is an indispensable resource for those among us who are ready to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk! There is a huge movement already underway towards going green, living sustainably, and creating a smaller carbon footprint. This book provides the means to do so. Homeowners, students, professionals and elected officials can all learn valuable solutions to save money, energy and combat global warming. Go Green offers user-friendly suggestions for individuals, schools, hospitals, businesses and communities.

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Community forum to be held on building a sustainable Kimberton

Home tour allows a peek into decoration ingenuity
A place that pays homage to Woodland Park’s rural roots and the people who distinguish the area, the home of Brenda and Bob Redding reflects the western lifestyle.

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New trailhead opens on Cherry Creek Trail
Centennial’s hikers, cyclists and other outdoors enthusiasts have a new place to access the Cherry Creek Trail. A new Broncos Parkway trailhead is located at 16400 E. Broncos Parkway, just west of Tagawa Gardens.

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What’s Happening
VFW fundraising dinner Friday VFW Post 6271, 233 E. 5th St., is holding its weekly Friday, dinner Nov. 19 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., serving chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetable, salad and roll. Cost is $7, public welcome. For takeout or information call 586-2197.

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Chantel Jennings: Syracuse will be season’s first measuring stick
After the first game of the season, Michigan men’s basketball coach John Beilein spoke about getting his new players “under the lights” in Crisler Arena. Well, it’s about to get a lot brighter when the team hits Atlantic City this Friday for the Championship Round of the Legends Classic. read more

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Community forum to be held on building a sustainable Kimberton
A public forum on building a sustainable Kimberton community will be held on November 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camphill Kimberton Hills Village, Pughtown Road in Kimberton.

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Your community in brief (Oct. 29)

An engineered directional nanofilm mimics nature’s curious feats
(PhysOrg.com) — In nature, textured surfaces provide some plants the ability to trap insects and pollen, certain insects the ability to walk on water, and the gecko the ability to climb walls. Being able to mimic these features at a larger scale would spur new advances in renewable energy and medicine. In a paper published in the October 10 issue of Nature Materials, a team of researchers from …

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Oklahoma Fails Small Town
A group of small-town Oklahomans have inserted themselves into the middle of the battle between the EPA and the U.S. coal industry because they say an industrial byproduct, fly ash, is killing them, literally.

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City Carton announces plans to donate to Mt. Pleasant schools music department
City Carton Recycling of Mt. Pleasant anticipates donating $2,000 to $3,000 to the Mt. Pleasant Community Schools music department.

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Stanford Students Design Recyclable Laptop with Autodesk Inventor Software
Autodesk, Inc. has named a class of Stanford University graduate students as Autodesk Inventor of the Month for October for developing a prototype of the recyclable Bloom laptop.

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Your community in brief (Oct. 29)
Registration open for Master Recycler Class

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Expo shines a spotlight on the Greater Newtown business and professional community

Google Invests in $5bn Wind-Power Superhighway
by Edward Helmore Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (£3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard. The grid project, which stands to serve 1.9m homes from Virginia to New Jersey with up to 6,000 megawatts of electric power from dozens of windfarms 10 miles off the mid-Atlantic coast, is the …

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Going green to the max
MILTON — Andrew Koh is learning that going extremely green — his house renovation project is designed to cut home energy costs in half — can cost a lot of green.

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Google helps finance ‘superhighway’ for wind power
Internet search engine giant Google Inc. is investing in a mammoth project to build an underwater “superhighway for clean energy” that would funnel power from off-shore wind farms to to 1.9 million homes without overtaxing the already congested mid-Atlantic power grid, the company said.

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Google helps finance ‘superhighway’ for wind power
Internet search engine giant Google Inc. is investing in a mammoth project to build an underwater “superhighway for clean energy” that would funnel power from off-shore wind farms to to 1.9 million homes without overtaxing the already congested mid-Atlantic power grid, the company said.

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Expo shines a spotlight on the Greater Newtown business and professional community
If enthusiasm, energy and turnout were any indication, this year’s Newtown Business Expo held at the Newtown Athletic Club on October 6 scored a homerun with everyone in attendance.

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On Tap community calendar

Using fire as a tool
Jenny Reinheardt isn’t a doctor, but she writes prescriptions for a living. As a fuels specialist for the Wallowa Whitman National Forest’s Wallowa Fire Zone, Reinheardt takes her patients’ needs into consideration when prescribing treatment.

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Education Update
Oct. 11: Flexible makeup day, no classes. Oct. 13: First quarter ends. Oct. 26: Parent-teacher conference.

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A different sort of gardening
Braden Trauth is a teacher of permaculture, which integrates an agricultural human activity, such as growing food, with natural surroundings.

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Lifeworks annual Home Improvement Challenge remakes eight South Austin apartments
Lifeworks annual Home Improvement Challenge remakes eight South Austin apartments

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On Tap community calendar
ONGOING EVENTS: MOMS CLUB OF POTTSGROVE/POTTSTOWN Meeting are held every third Wednesday of the month at 9:30 a.m. at St. James Church, off High St. in Pottstown. The MOMS Club of Pottsgrove/Pottstown welcomes all stay-at-home moms and their children from the area. The MOMS Club is a national support group; our chapter offers playgroups, activities, Mom’s Night Out, scrapbook and book clubs and …

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Going Green with Global. In your community.

For people across North America, the most important sustainability issue is staying connected with family, friends & community… this week Ci’s, Kierstin De West, shares three simple tips for people to connect with community + help the environment at the same time.

Loudoun To Participate In Green Community Challenge

Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas
WINCHESTER, VA. – The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison’s innovations in the 1870s. Light – Business – Business and Economy – China – Incandescent light bulb

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State on list of top ‘green energy’ partners
For the third year in a row, Connecticut is one of only three states making the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the top 50 national “Green Power Partners,” ranking 36th.

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Christian students surprise non-religious by joining the green movement
EDMONTON – Kory deGroot sometimes meets people who are surprised he’s green. Not because he’s in Alberta where the oil and gas industry is king, but because he’s a student at a Christian university. And in many people’s minds, Christian equals conservative.

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Christian students surprise non-religious by joining the green movement
EDMONTON – Kory deGroot sometimes meets people who are surprised he’s green. Not because he’s in Alberta where the oil and gas industry is king, but because he’s a student at a Christian university. And in many people’s minds, Christian equals conservative.

Read more on Brandon Sun

Loudoun To Participate In Green Community Challenge
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA in partnership with the Virginia Municipal League’s Go Green Virgninia initiative announced last week Loudoun’s inclusion among four communities selected to participate in Virginia’s Green Community Challenge.

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Parking pavers draw criticism from some community members

New, Interactive Website CommonSpace Launched to Connect Philadelphia Friends to Social Fun, Seeks Consumer Input
On Thursday, September 2, 2010 a consortium of Philadelphia-based partners announced a new, beta interactive platform that encourages community-building and sustainability by exploring local, social fun in Philadelphia: http://commonspace.us. Â CommonSpace, a pilot program, is seeking consumer feedback for development from now until October 15, 2010 and encourages …

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âGreen Fairâ to open a lot of eyes Sept. 11 in the Chathams
THE CHATHAMS – Get ready to “go green” with Chatham Borough and Chatham Township’s joint third annual “Green Fair of the Chathams” from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at Reasoner Park, site of the Chatham Community Gazebo off Fairmount Avenue in Chatham Borough.

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Parking pavers draw criticism from some community members
 District: Economy allowed lower bid, choice cuts maintenance costs

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Organic fruit tastes better, is better for you: study
Organic fruit is not only better for you, but it tastes better, too.

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Parking pavers draw criticism from some community members
 District: Economy allowed lower bid, choice cuts maintenance costs

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The Community Video Recycling Program! (Bloopers)

LEAVE A COMMENT! Pretty please? This is the You Tube Community Video Recycling Program! Attach your bloopers and outtakes as video responses and favorite this video. I’d love to see this bring the community together in a fun way! YouTubers who participated in this video… Me (duh), Zarbod, CharlesTrippy, Battim, Gimmeabreakman, dmurawski, Nalts, SMPfilms (aka MrSafety), Bostorican1969, WhattheBuckShow, ZackScott, OhCurt. Links to their channels are below. www.youtube.com (duh) www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Recycle your wasted videos today! All footage was used with permission from the owners and people featured. Music by Incompetech.com.

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