Watch our latest ad below (it will be airing during the Olympics). It shows Americans how we will make the switch to clean, renewable energy sources.

Switching now to clean energy sources will revitalize our economy — we can be global leaders in developing and manufacturing clean energy technologies. It will enhance our national security — reducing the pressure on our troops to protect oil supplies and avoiding the worst climate impacts in politically unstable regions of the world. It will make high gasoline prices less of a burden in our daily lives — enabling us to transition to clean plug-in hybrid electric cars. It will help solve the climate crisis — if we fail to act soon, the consequences for our children will be dire.

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And the fact is, most “Green Mom” bloggers have only skirted the issue of global warming. Sure, we refer to it, but by and large our blogs are full of far more references to CSAs, organic cottons, phthalate- free toys and recycling than to the depressing news about global warming.

Global Warming is only the first Eco topic these Mom’s plan on addressing, but Lynn hopes that they will continue to address global warming issues as well.

Check them out on Monday!

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The initial price tag on bins for the curbside recycling program’s start-up will be $23.4 million, but in the long run, taxpayers and the environment will benefit from islandwide recycling and the city’s trash dump will not fill up as fast.

Operating costs will drop because green waste, which is now collected separately, will be part of the usual pick-ups and also remove the need to transfer materials to different locations.

The city’s curbside recycling program could lower annual operating costs for refuse collection by almost $200,000.

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The total radioactivity released into the environment from the USS Houston at each stop was less than one half a microcurie, U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt. Scott Gureck said.

“That’s a negligible amount, equal to the radioactivity of a 50-pound bag of fertilizer,” he said.

The leak was discovered around July 17th when a gallon of water spilled on a shipyard worker’s leg from a valve while the submarine was in dry dock for maintenance at Pearl Harbor.

An investigation revealed that contaminated water may have been slowly leaking from the valve since clear back in March as the submarine traveled around the Pacific.

Gureck said the ship is designed to leak, or “weep,” a small amount of water, but the amount coming from the sub was higher than normal. Even so, he said the total leaked volume was minuscule.

The Houston is based at Apra Harbor in the U.S. territory of Guam in the Western Pacific.

The Houston visited a U.S. naval base in Sasebo, Japan, in late March, and then stopped in Guam from late May to mid-June. The submarine sat in Pearl Harbor for about three weeks before being dry-docked in mid July.

Hawai’i Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo says the Navy reported the leak to the department’s radiation and indoor air quality branch. Authorities didn’t take action because they didn’t see any issue that would create a threat, she said.

Okubo said the department periodically receives such reports from the Navy, but she didn’t know how often.

“The smallest thing could happen and they report it to us, which we really appreciate,” Okubo said. “We of course review it and want to know corrective action has been taken.”

Gureck said the Navy also alerted the Japanese government after the investigation. Japanese nuclear monitors didn’t detect any unusual radioactivity in Sasebo when the submarine was there, he said.

Sasebo city official Akihiro Yoshida said the government monitoring during the submarine’s port calls showed no abnormal increase of radioactivity in the area’s waters.

“Still, we are rather concerned,” Yoshida said.

Masahiko Goto, a lawyer representing a citizens’ group opposing the George Washington’s deployment in Yokosuka, sharply criticized the U.S. Navy for withholding the problem for weeks.

“They had discovered the radiation leak weeks ago and did not inform the Japanese government immediately,” he said in a statement. “The U.S. Navy’s handling of the accident and lack of transparency showed there is no way we can trust them.”

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You can also use Bold, Italics and Underline in your posts.

Thumbnails are automatically added for the blogs/websites linked to.

You can also bookmark YouTube and Google Videos.

Please, keep in mind the script will only allow a max width of 400px images anything wider will re-size down to 400. IE7 has a small problem resizing the height, this is being looked in to. Example: You try to post a header sized image 1000×100 The 1000 width will re-size to 400, but the 100 will remain the same height. Again we are working on this. Just try to post images under the 400 px max width and you should be fine.

We are close to bridging the two scripts together and within a short time we will have a full blown Eco-minded Community for you to interact and socialize in.

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So, without further ado Ecoblogs.net has been reworked a little bit and is back better than ever.

Ecoblogs invites all green bloggers who blog about the environment, green issues, renewable energy, global warming or anything related to being green to use our new free Web 2.0 bookmarking service.

Ecoblogs is a social bookmarking service that is populated by users bookmarking their blog posts or by a green bloggers visitors submitting their stories. The site is updated automatically 24/7. By users utilizing this service we hope to help spread the word about being green, the causes of global warming and it’s effect on our environment.

Prior users if you have trouble logging in please re-register.

Over the next few months we will be expanding and adding our community pages where you will be able to have your own blog, meet friends, discuss green issues and just have fun… stay tuned!

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More information can be found on Wikipedia.

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For every paid 2007 federal income tax return that is completed and submitted by efile through File Your Taxes Now (at no cost to the taxpayer) we will donate one dollar to environmental organizations that will go toward the planting of trees.

Complete Story >> eFile Your Taxes and Plant A Tree

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Find used solar panels. Maybe you can get them for free.

Continue ->> How to find free (or cheap) solar panels

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The site for her stud farm is a 60 acre plot of land near Pahrump where she just opened a laundromat called Dirty Laundry. Apparently she even considers herself a TreeHugger, but she won’t be letting her environmental values compromise the decadence for her clients. Ecorazzi gives us the following summary:

Complete Story >>Heidi Fleiss to Open Eco-brothel for Women

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Uber marketing guru Seth Godin has a great post about why making people feel guilty about their buying habits isn’t going to help the eco movement. We’re told to buy organic, but not that organic, because that was shipped long distances; or buy dolphin-friendly tuna, but don’t buy tuna at all because the oceans are over-fished and fishing isn’t particularly eco-friendly.

Continue ->> Doing More vs. Doing Less

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If you are wondering some of the things that will change with increased Global Warming I suggest you pop over to Alternet and have a good read. They have outlined 100 changes to `The Good Life’ that can be expected as the planet continues on its warming way.

Continue ->> Global Warming Destroys `The Good Life’

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Fat may no longer be a negative thing, at least when it comes to producing biodiesel. FatBox, a device developed by Pacific Natural Energy (PNE) may make fat a valuable resource. It has the ability to transform fat into fuel.

Continue ->> New ‘FatBox’ Device Produces Biodiesel from Solid Animal Fats

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We’ve been hard at work hammering out the Planet Green blog, which we’re launching in conjunction with the new 24/7 Discovery channel of the same name. If TreeHugger is the “what,” then Planet Green is the “do,” and PG is bursting with smart tips, easy-to-understand advice, and inspiring anecdotes to help you tread more lightly on the only Earth we’ve got. So make yourself a cup of tea, pull up a…

Continue ->> Today on Planet Green

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Leaves help to make excellent compost and mulch. This is how brown turns into green. Fall is one of my favorite seasons of the year. I love the fall foliage with its different colors of red, yellow, and orange. As beautiful as the colorful foliage seems, many people dread fall because they have to rake up all those leaves.

Continue ->> How Can Brown Turn to Green?

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Hundreds of videos on global warming and the environment, that shows both sides of the global warming issue and the humorous side. Search for videos on any topic.

Continue ->> Videos on Global Warming

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It truly is an inconvenient truth that many of our modern amenities, things that make our lives so much easier, are the same things that will eventually make our planet uninhabitable. Trying to reduce our use of these things can seem very overwhelming when they seem to be everywhere we turn.If it is scientifically logical to be green (and I assure you, it is!), then why aren’t we all doing it? I…

Continue ->> Seven Common Excuses Not to Go Green

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