Could gadget recycling get easier than this?
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New York City, New York, USA -
Ten states in the U.S. Northeast kicked off the country's first cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, gaining accolades from environmentalists and many businesses but also eliciting concerns about how the states will spend the money the plan raises.
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NATIONAL REPORT—In meeting rooms, back of house and other areas of your hotel, chances are great that you are using T-12 fluorescent lamps or the more efficient T-8s to illuminate large spaces. At least two companies—ilumisys, Inc. in Troy, Mich., and LEDdynamics, Inc. in Randolph, Vt.—are trying to replace these linear fluorescents with LED alternatives that are more energy efficient and safer for the environment. Fluorescent tubes include mercury and despite recycling efforts, 500 million to 600 million lamps end up in landfills each year. LED alternatives do not include mercury.
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Hanover, New Hampshire, USA -
Contrary to popular opinion, sometimes there's good news about the environment -- lately there's been quite a spate of it.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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Oslo, Norway -
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
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Milton, Vermont, USA -
Two high-schoolers are being credited with saving the lives of four people in Milton.
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA -
"Wangari" has begun to spread her roots in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood ... The red maple tree Mayor Thomas Menino planted on Arbor Day this spring is named for Wangari Maathai, a 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and driving force behind the United Nation's One Billion Tree Campaign for 2007.
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Waterbury, Vermont, USA -
Cliffs and trails leading to them have been closed in eight areas around Vermont to protect nesting peregrine falcons.
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Marbe Valley, Vermont, USA -
The Bus is about to turn green.
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