Green Living for Dummies® Offers Simple Ways to Make a Smaller Footprint on the Earth

"Green Living for Dummies" proves that authoritative baby changes in your circadian routine--at home, at work, and in your community--can add up to a big ecology difference.

Hoboken, NJ -- For those that ambition to accompany the blooming movement but don't apperceive how or area to begin, a new book from the accepted For Dummies alternation is actuality to help. Packed with simple tips and assured instruction, "Green Living for Dummies" (a Wiley imprint, February 2008, 368 pages) proves that authoritative baby changes in a circadian routine--at home, at work, and in the community--can add up to a big ecology difference.

Authors Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, and Michael Grosvenor explain in plain-English how to transform activity at home into a greener experience. Readers will ascertain how to body and acclimate a home in an environmentally affable fashion; access the ability of accessories such as televisions, fridges and abrasion machines; crop advantage of eco-friendly cosmetics and cleaners; abbreviate debris waste; and reclaim accepted domiciliary items.

more than a publishing phenomenon, but a assurance of the times "Green Living for Dummies" discusses means in which over-consumption has been amenable for harming the planet--from all-around abating to ascent sea levels to the access of alarming chemicals in the world's air, water, foods, and toys. Here are some agitative statistics:

*Large-scale agronomical practices in the U.S. are abrasion abroad the nation's affluent alluvium 18 times faster than it can be by itself replenished.
Solution? Grow bake-apple and veggies at home and buy amoebic or from abate bounded farmers.

*Three-quarters of the world's ocean's fisheries are already overfished to a point that there is some anatomy of brake on what can be bent from them.
Solution? Before affairs fish, apperceive whether it is from acceptable banal and what the fish's anatomy may contain. Find out if the angle is farmed or wild, as able-bodied as how the angle was caught.

*Each American, on average, uses up to 3 times added baptize (and this includes baptize acclimated to accomplish things we buy) than anyone active in any added country on the planet.
Solution? Reduce, reuse, recycle, don't run the taps…and cut aback on actuation purchases.

The book covers absolute developments, such as the acceleration of renewable activity sources like solar ability and wind energy, and shows how simple chump decisions can accomplish a absolute impact--i.e., choices on what to eat (the authors acclaim acid aback on meat and bottled water, and accretion "Fairtrade" purchases); how to buy angle and apprehend bales at the market; and what to buy at the accouterment abundance and how to accomplish it endure longer.   

"Green Living for Dummies" aswell provides advice and tips on transportation, including the appulse of operating a car, the pros and cons of assorted blooming cars on the market, and the acumen of application addition options wherever available. Take greener holidays by allotment to break in blooming rated hotels, go on advance vacations, or accord to tree-planting programs if affairs even tickets (to account the carbon dioxide produced by jet flights).

Like all For Dummies® books, "Green Living for Dummies" concludes with "The Part of Tens," including ten simple accomplishments that can accomplish an actual appulse on the ambiance and ten tips on acclimation and abating items rather than trashing them. An addendum in the aback of the book offers a absolute advertisement of added organizations and web sites to argue for those adulatory to dig added into blooming living. In addition, a accessible "Cheat Sheet" in the foreground of the book summarizes some quick means to accomplish one's circadian activity greener; tips for authoritative recycling a snap; and some added advisory resources.

About the Authors
Yvonne Jeffery is an author, editor, and affection biographer whose plan has appeared in National Geographic Explorer and American Profile, a allotment of added publications.
Michael Grosvenor is an burghal artist who consults with public- and private-sector audience on acceptable busline issues.
Liz Barclay is a chump address expert, journalist, and the host of "You and Yours" on BBC Radio 4.

Green Living for Dummies®
By Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, and Michael Grosvenor
ISBN: 978-0-470-22742-7 / $19.99 U.S. / February 2008

For added aboveboard advice on traveling green, analysis out:
Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies 978-0-470-17559-0
Solar Power Your Home For Dummies 978-0-470-17569-9

To see all For Dummies titles, appointment www.dummies.com

About For Dummies®
With abreast accepted name recognition, added than 150 actor books in print, and over 1,000 topics, For Dummies is the world's bestselling advertence series. With loyal barter about the globe, For Dummies enriches people's lives by authoritative ability accessible in a fun and simple way. Described by the N.Y. Times as "more than a publishing phenomenon, but a assurance of the times," For Dummies amount every area of the bookstore, accoutrement aggregate from bloom to history, music to math, sports to self-help, technology to travel, and more. The Dummies casting authorization has broadcast with an all-encompassing accountant artefact line, including DVDs, software, chump electronics, cooking, charwoman and automotive products, ability and amusement kits, amateur and more. For information, appointment Dummies.com. For Dummies is a branded banner of Wiley.

Green Columbus 'Gets Busy' For Earth Week

Taking affliction of our ambiance is abundant too important to endure for just one day, and this year Green Columbus has appointed a abounding anniversary of activities focused about adulatory and accommodating in Earth Day 2008. Building on the absorbing assembly of their 2007 A Year in a Day event, Green Columbus has appear Now Get Busy! as the appellation of this year's event, a byword to activation participants city-wide into action in the anniversary alpha Saturday, April 19.

Columbus, OH -- Taking affliction of our ambiance is abundant too important to endure for just one day, and this year Green Columbus has appointed a abounding anniversary of activities focused about adulatory and accommodating in Earth Day 2008. Building on the absorbing assembly of their 2007 A Year in a Day event, Green Columbus has appear Now Get Busy! as the appellation of this year's event, a byword to activation participants city-wide into action in the anniversary alpha Saturday, April 19.

As the amateur for the week-long event, Green Columbus is analogous a aggregation of worksites to be fabricated accessible to volunteers on the morning of Saturday, April 26. Nearly 1,400 volunteers pitched in at the endure Earth Day, and the ambition has been set for 2,500 bounded across citizens to appear out and advice the could cause this year. All their harder plan will be adored with a chargeless cafeteria donated by Whole Foods Market, Jeni's Ice Cream, and Clintonville Community Market as able-bodied as a above anniversary for guests of all ages at Goodale Park. Two stages will be set up for ball including abide music and speakers. The anniversary will aswell affection kids activities and will be a aught decay event, with aggregate either recycled or composted.

"The advance plan of 2,500 Central Ohioans in a unified could cause will aftereffect in cleaner rivers, the burying of hundreds of trees, and all address of association beautification," said Tad Dritz, Green Columbus' advance organizer. "We are appreciative to accompany calm these volunteers and are aflame about adulatory a job able-bodied done!"

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium's Earth Day event, a account concert, appropriate blur screening at Studio 35, tai chi demonstration, and accepted children's appearance appearances annular out the blow of this Earth Week celebration. Green Columbus has been alive with The CW on WWHO-TV, Columbus Foundation, Comfest, Corna/Kokosing, Great Lakes Brewing Co., Brighter Minds Media, MORPC, and Grossman Group to ensure an arrangement of agitative contest and is aswell accouterment booths at Goodale Park for ecology affable organizations.

For added information, amuse appointment www.nowgetbusy.org

About Green Columbus
Green Columbus exists to advance acceptable active in Central Ohio and globally by 1) accouterment forums for ecology groups, citizens and others to interact. 2) adopting acquaintance about ecology issues and what can be done to abode them, and 3) auspicious accord in action aggressive blooming events. More advice is accessible at www.greencbus.org

Positively Green is a Guide to Every Day Greener, Healthier Living

New Women's Magazine Set to Launch Nationally, Features Practical Solutions for Living a More Eco-Friendly Life

Nashville, TN (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 15, 2008 -- Positively Green, a new annual annual geared appear those boilerplate women who ambition a common band-aid adviser to active a greener, convalescent life, will barrage in bookstores and retail food civic in aboriginal August.

A sample foreground awning of Positively Green

I capital to aftermath a actual visually stunning, fresh-feeling annual that addresses a array of interests and concerns, but was centered on blooming living So I congenital travel, appearance and gossip, cooking, bloom and home adornment and all those things we all enjoy, and based it all about the actual simple abstraction of arch a greener, convalescent affairs in a way that would bell with women bamboozlement plan and accouchement and all the added things we accord with in life. I ambition to accord women ability about the apple we abide in and empower their decisions, but I do not ambition Positively Green to become mired in political or ecology debate. There is already abundant abrogating columnist in the world Positively Green annual is the missing piece No added annual is geared for the boilerplate woman who wants to do what she can. The annual is the abstraction of Nashvillian Kelly Magill, who aswell publishes Nashville Interiors magazine. In her circadian accepted of caring for children, working, and advancement a home life, Kelly accomplished she was not abandoned in her adventure to absorb traveling blooming into her activity and the lives of her admired ones. Thus, Positively Green was born.

“I capital to aftermath a actual visually stunning, fresh-feeling annual that addresses a array of interests and concerns, but was centered on blooming living,” said administrator of Positively Green, Kellly Magill. “So I congenital travel, appearance and gossip, cooking, bloom and home adornment and all those things we all enjoy, and based it all about the actual simple abstraction of arch a greener, convalescent affairs in a way that would bell with women bamboozlement plan and accouchement and all the added things we accord with in life.”

In a aboveboard and astute approach, Positively Green covers capacity such as health, beauty, travel, home and fashion, alternating with items geared to absorb blooming active into your every day decisions and choices. The magazine, printed on cardboard with recycled content, encourages baby changes that will accept big effects. Positively Green will not broadcast bigmouth belief or online autograph that advance specific groups or practices.

“I ambition to accord women ability about the apple we abide in and empower their decisions, but I do not ambition Positively Green to become mired in political or ecology debate. There is already abundant abrogating columnist in the world,” commented Magill.

The annual will authority a barrage affair in Los Angeles in July. The affair will be hosted by Ed and Rachelle Begley. Rachelle graces the foreground awning of the aboriginal affair of Positively Green.

“Positively Green annual is the missing piece,” said Rachelle Begley. “No added annual is geared for the boilerplate woman who wants to do what she can.”

Positively Green is accessible for a cable fee of $14.00, with $2 of your cable amount donated to the eco-charity of your choice, or $24.00 for two years, and $4 of your cable amount will be donated to the eco-charity of your choice. Go to www.positivelygreen.com for added advice or to subscribe.

CONTACT:
Tara Tocco
Gish, Sherwood & Friends
(615) 385.1100

Rockwell Collins Seeking Green Communities Grant Program proposals

Rockwell Collins is accepting proposals for its 2009 Green Communities Grant Program.

Cedar Rapids, IA (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 21, 2009 -- Rockwell Collins is accepting proposals for its 2009 Green Communities Grant Program. Launched four years ago, the affairs helps armamentarium ecology projects in communities area the aggregation operates. Applications will be acclimatized through Feb. 27, with admission winners accepting appear in affiliation with activities on or about Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

Natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes and wildfires accept afflicted the communities in which we accomplish over the endure several years and we ambition to do our allotment to advice restore the accustomed abode in those areas With 134 projects adjourned back 2004, Green Communities has accustomed a clue almanac of authoritative a difference. Credit goes to our advisers about the apple who accept taken buying of the affairs by accommodating in and announcement these ecology initiatives. Eligible projects have to advance the ecology action of the community. In accession to acceptable attention and apology projects, the Green Communities affairs will aswell accent the rebuilding of communities through abating ecology habitats that accept been damaged by accustomed disasters.

"Natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes and wildfires accept afflicted the communities in which we accomplish over the endure several years and we ambition to do our allotment to advice restore the accustomed abode in those areas," said Cindy Dietz, administrator of association relations at Rockwell Collins. "With 134 projects adjourned back 2004, Green Communities has accustomed a clue almanac of authoritative a difference. Credit goes to our advisers about the apple who accept taken buying of the affairs by accommodating in and announcement these ecology initiatives."

Grant awards will ambit from $500 to $2,500. Only projects conducted or sponsored by able non-profit organizations or public/government entities are eligible.

A admission analysis board will adjudicator activity applications based on belief including:

 

Tangible ecology allowances of the activity Sustainability of the activity allowances Participation in the activity by Rockwell Collins advisers and/or retirees Completion of the activity aural the agenda year of the admission accolade Agreement to participate in publicizing the admission and the completed project
To download a archetype of the admission guidelines and application, go to
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/about/community/green_communities.

A account of 2008 Rockwell Collins Green Community admission recipients is accessible at http://www.rockwellcollins.com/news/page10712.html

A photo of a Green Communities activity is accessible at the afterward link: http://www.rockwellcollins.com/content/images/img_11357.jpg

Rockwell Collins is a avant-garde in the development and deployment of avant-garde advice and aerodynamics cyberbanking solutions for both bartering and government applications. Our ability in flight accouter avionics, berth electronics, mission communications, advice management, and simulation and training is delivered by 20,000 employees, and a all-around account and abutment arrangement that crosses 27 countries. To acquisition out more, amuse appointment www.rockwellcollins.com.

Media Contact:
Dave Gosch
319.295.2908
djgosch @ rockwellcollins.com

Green Works™ Natural Cleaners Announces Finalists in Green Heroes Grant Program

Ten Eco-Friendly Community Projects from Across the U.S. are Finalists for $50,000 in Grants; Top Five Finalists to be Selected by Public

Oakland, Calif. -- The makers of Green Works™ accustomed cleaners today appear the finalists of its Green Heroes Grant Program. Through this program, the Green Works aggregation will accolade 5 grants of $10,000 anniversary to eco-friendly association projects above the country.

All finalists were called by a console of board that included assembly from the Sierra Club, The Lazy Environmentalist and ecofabulous.com, and cover a ambit of locally-based programs. Finalists include:

 

Bike Share Guided Rides (Fort Collins, Colo.) Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program (Carmel, Ind.) Creating Vibrant Communities (Atlanta) Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill (Brooklyn, NY) Los Altos Living Classroom (Los Altos and Mountain View, Calif.) Master Gardeners High Yield Vegetable Demonstration Garden (Union Gap, Wash.) Neighborhood Youth CREATE (Oakland, Calif.) Project GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) (Lansing, Mich.) Rogue River Greenway Project (Grants Pass, Ore.) Students for Sustainability (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The top 10 finalists' essays are accessible for analysis and voting at www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero. The accessible has until April 10 to go online and vote for their admired Green Hero. The final 5 Green Heroes - and winners of $10,000 grants anniversary - will be appear on April 22, just in time for Earth Day.

For added advice about the Green Heroes Grant Program, including official challenge rules and access guidelines, log on to www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero.

About The Clorox Company
The Clorox Company is a arch architect and banker of chump articles with budgetary year 2008 revenues of $5.3 billion. Clorox markets some of consumers' a lot of trusted and accustomed casting names, including its namesake achromatize and charwoman products, Green Works™ accustomed cleaners, Armor All® and STP® auto-care products, Fresh Step® and Scoop Away® cat litter, Kingsford® charcoal, Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces, Brita® water-filtration systems, Glad® bags, wraps and containers, and Burt's Bees® accustomed claimed affliction products. With 8,300 advisers worldwide, the aggregation articles articles in added than two dozen countries and markets them in added than 100 countries. Clorox is committed to authoritative a absolute aberration in the communities area its advisers plan and live. Founded in 1980, The Clorox Company Foundation has awarded banknote grants accretion added than $73.4 actor to nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges. In budgetary 2008 alone, the foundation awarded $3.7 actor in banknote grants, and Clorox fabricated artefact donations admired at $5.3 million. For added advice about Clorox, appointment http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/.

Contact:
Jennifer Sisk
Ketchum for Green Works
(310) 584-8309

Aileen Zerrudo
The Clorox Company
(510) 271-3075

The Green Works™ Team Announces Winners of Green Heroes Grant Program

Five Eco-Friendly Community Projects from Across the U.S. Win $10,000 Each

Oakland, Calif. -- Just in time for Earth Day, the makers of Green Works™ accustomed cleaners today appear the winners of its Green Heroes Grant Program. Through this program, the Green Works aggregation is application 5 grants of $10,000 anniversary to advice eco-friendly association projects above the country abound and flourish. Winners of the Green Heroes Grant Program include:

Los Altos School District Living Classroom Program (Los Altos and Mountain View, Calif.) provides garden based, hands-on science and algebraic acquaint application academy area and active things to advise science and algebraic to accomplish the acquirements accordant and absolute world.

Carmel Area Roots & Shoots Green Teen Micro-Grant Program (Carmel, Ind.) is a non-profit, advance alignment that will use its admission to actualize a greener, added acceptable association through 22 youth-driven, action-based ecology projects, such as burying trees, distributing rain barrels, recycling containers and admixture bins, amoebic gardens, hosting roadside and waterways clean-up contest and more.

Students for Sustainability (Chattanooga, Tenn.) is an accord of top academy acceptance committed to convalescent the ambiance in their community. Baylor School acceptance will actualize a county-wide accord of students, who will abetment in the accomplishing of blooming strategies at accommodating schools in the county.

Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill (Brooklyn, NY) is a affairs organized by acceptance of The Brooklyn New School. The acceptance will assemble four all-embracing Vermiculture Compost Systems to abode 80 pounds of red convulsion worms, which will admixture 100 percent of the school's aliment waste. In turn, the admixture will be acclimated to abound aliment in the absolute schoolyard garden.

Rogue River Greenway Project (Grants Pass, Ore.) is a recreational aisle addition 30 afar from Grants Pass to Central Point, Ore., alternating the Rogue River. Grant allotment will armamentarium assorted improvements alternating the trail, including architecture a trailhead, engineering, construction, signage, riparian restoration, purchasing decay receptacles, bubbler fountains, benches and more.

About the Green Heroes Grant Program
The makers of Green Works accustomed cleaners created the affairs to abutment association eco initiatives in the U.S. by advantageous top projects with a $10,000 grant. The Green Heroes grants are advised to advice these projects abide to grow, adorning bounded communities.

Between January 15 and February 28, 2009, the Green Works aggregation arrive individuals to appoint eco-friendly association projects for a Green Heroes admission by appointment online a photo and abbreviate article about the activity for consideration. A console of eco-experts including assembly from the Sierra Club, EcoFabulous.com and Josh Dorfman, the Lazy Environmentalist, advised all submissions and called 10 finalists. The 5 winners were called by accepted online vote (www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero) from March 23 until April 10, 2009.

For added advice about the Green Heroes Grant Program, including official challenge rules and access guidelines, log on to www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero.

About The Clorox Company:
The Clorox Company is a arch architect and banker of chump articles with budgetary year 2008 revenues of $5.3 billion. Clorox markets some of consumers' a lot of trusted and accustomed casting names, including its namesake achromatize and charwoman products, Green Works™ accustomed cleaners, Armor All® and STP® auto-care products, Fresh Step® and Scoop Away® cat litter, Kingsford® charcoal, Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces, Brita® water-filtration systems, Glad® bags, wraps and containers, and Burt's Bees® accustomed claimed affliction products. With 8,300 advisers worldwide, the aggregation articles articles in added than two dozen countries and markets them in added than 100 countries. Clorox is committed to authoritative a absolute aberration in the communities area its advisers plan and live. Founded in 1980, The Clorox Company Foundation has awarded banknote grants accretion added than $73.4 actor to nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges. In budgetary 2008 alone, the foundation awarded $3.7 actor in banknote grants, and Clorox fabricated artefact donations admired at $5.3 million. For added advice about Clorox, appointment http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/.

Contacts:
Mary Seltzer
Ketchum for the Clorox Company
(415) 984-2235

Aileen Zerrudo
The Clorox Company
(510) 271-3075

Brand New Green Eco Ball Environmentally-Friendly, Cost-Effective Way to do the Wash

New Eco-Ball saves time, water, money, derma and clothes. As I accept acclimated the affray anxiously for the accomplished two months to 'test' it out, I cannot anytime brainstorm traveling aback to application soaps again My clothes are advancement their color, my towels are added absorptive and aloft all abroad I accept noticed a abridgement in lint in my dryer. I can alone accept that agency this Green Eco Ball is not breaking down the fibers in my clothes as before. I ambition the Green Eco Ball had been about if my accouchement were younger. Both of them suffered from astringent allergies and this artefact could accept absolved them from laundry-related problems I am afraid and impressed. What a abundant artefact for anybody to use. Nothing to abuse my already acute skin, no abundant aroma smells, a advocate way to do laundry! The affray awash itself in one amount of laundry, now 999 to go

Las Vegas, NV -- 4KAMM International's new Green Eco Ball brings a able anarchy to laundry rooms. Not alone is the Green Eco Ball advised to annihilate the charge for acrid laundry detergents, it aswell minimizes the charge for baptize and for electricity if abrasion clothes. See the difference, feel the difference, and be the aberration for a bigger tomorrow.

Product testers acclaimed their accustomed ablution time was bargain by half, from about 30 account of abrasion and rinsing, to 15 account application the "rinse" alone cycle, abbreviation both baptize burning and electricity use. Saving baptize and electricity agency extenuative both money and time.

One artefact tester has been actual blessed with the after-effects afterwards connected tests.

"As I accept acclimated the affray anxiously for the accomplished two months to 'test' it out, I cannot anytime brainstorm traveling aback to application soaps again," said Joan Hager of Las Vegas. "My clothes are advancement their color, my towels are added absorptive and aloft all abroad I accept noticed a abridgement in lint in my dryer. I can alone accept that agency this Green Eco Ball is not breaking down the fibers in my clothes as before."

The Green Eco Ball is simple. Choose a bolt setting, baddest cool/cold water, accessible the apparatus and bung the affray inside. That's it. When finished, abolish the Green Eco Ball from the washer and acquiesce to air dry.

As if extenuative water, electricity, money and time were not enough, the Green Eco-Ball eliminates added all too accepted laundry mishaps. No added blowzy spills, abundant appropriation of bottles and boxes of detergents. It's a abundant abstraction for seniors, those with movement disabilities, and anyone who struggles with the accumulator and abundant appropriation that soap boxes and bottles require. It works able-bodied for humans with acute derma or astringent allergies.

"I ambition the Green Eco Ball had been about if my accouchement were younger. Both of them suffered from astringent allergies and this artefact could accept absolved them from laundry-related problems," said one artefact tester.

The Green Eco Ball contains bowl pellets that will deliquesce boring over time. These pellets accommodate authentic accustomed minerals that if alloyed with baptize and oxygen plan to abolish the clay and crud from clothing. On boilerplate anniversary affray should complete about 1,000 endless of laundry. It works with both foreground loading and top activity abrasion machines.

"I am afraid and impressed. What a abundant artefact for anybody to use. Nothing to abuse my already acute skin, no abundant aroma smells, a advocate way to do laundry! The affray awash itself in one amount of laundry, now 999 to go," Hager said.

For added advice about the Green ECO Ball go to www.greenecoball.com.

Green California Summit Approaches: Broad Spectrum of Leaders from Government, Education and Commercial Sectors Gather to Further State's Sustainability Efforts

On April 8 and 9 at the Sacramento Convention Center, bags of assembly complex in California blooming government initiatives -- from accompaniment and bounded governments to developers, acreage managers and educational institutions -- will accumulate for the Green California Summit and Expo. Full affairs of sustainability workshops, panels and keynotes. Free acceptance to display anteroom and accepted sessions/keynotes.

Sacramento, CA -- On April 8 and 9, bags of assembly from a advanced ambit of California's government, apprenticeship and bartering communities will accommodated at the Sacramento Convention Center for the 2008 Green California Summit. The event, developed beneath the advice of chief accompaniment admiral and clandestine area leaders, is focused on the programs, strategies and articles bare to body a California for approaching generations.

On April 8, a appropriate accident will be captivated at 4:30 p.m. to advertise the winners of the Green California Leadership Awards. The awards were created at the appeal of the Summit advising axle to accede outstanding accomplishments by accompaniment and bounded government; projects completed in 2007 in 8 categories of sustainability will be honored.

The aperture affair on April 8 will cover a presentation by California Public Utilities Commissioner Dian Grueneich, and a keynote by S. Rick Fedrizzi, Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council. The April 9 morning affair will affection Lt. Governor John Garamendi and a keynote from acclaimed columnist (Natural Capitalism) and environmentalist Hunter Lovins.

The display anteroom will affection hundreds of blooming articles and services, from addition cars and appliance to blooming appointment food and charwoman materials. The apprenticeship affairs will focus on arising trends, analysis and best practices in blooming building, activity conservation, design, agriculture and abounding added subjects.

A analysis of allotment to date reveals an almighty ample spectrum of participants, with hospitals, academy districts, association colleges, the UC and CSU systems, tribes, churches, designers, acreage managers, and developers accommodating alongside assembly from accompaniment and bounded government.

"This ample accord is a affecting acceptance of the charge to sustainability that exists throughout the state, from government at all levels to business," said Bob Graves, admiral of Green Technology, the non-profit that is acclimation the event.

"California is absolutely ambience the clip in this field, a actuality that was resoundingly accepted by contempo letters that China intends to apparatus California-style strategies for activity efficiency," he added. "This is the alone accident all year area it's accessible to acquaintance the across of the programs underway at accompaniment and bounded levels."

Admission to the display hall, the keynotes and the Green California Leadership Awards is free. Registration is required. For details, or to annals online, appointment www.green-technology.org/gcsummit. On-site allotment will activate at the Convention Center West Lobby at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 7.

US Markerboard Goes Against the Grain With New Green Website for School Furniture

Leading Retailer in School Furniture Unveils All-Green Website

Holbrook, MA -- US Markerboard, a arch academy appliance retailer, appear today the barrage of USMarkerboard-Green.com, a new website committed to alms eco-friendly, high-performance desks, chairs, tables and added classroom furniture. USMarkerboard-Green.com break new arena in the retail industry by accouterment consumers with exceptional academy appliance that contains recycled agreeable and low-emission materials.

"Schools accept the growing accent of traveling green. But it's harder to aces out the blooming from the approved articles if you appointment acceptable retail websites," explains Scott Newman, CEO of US Markerboard. "We capital to save consumers time and accomplishment in analytic for blooming articles while acquainted the manufacturers who absorb the time and money to advance absolute blooming artefact lines. On USMarkerboard-Green.com, every artefact you see is blooming and eco-friendly. As a result, you acquisition what you charge appropriate away, and you feel defended in alive your academy appliance keeps the Earth apple-pie and your acceptance and advisers healthy."

As allotment of its all-green classroom lineup, USMarkerboard-Green.com appearance an all-encompassing alternative of GREENGUARD(TM) certified academy furniture. GREENGUARD(TM) is an industry-wide accepted created by the GREENGUARD(TM) Environmental Institute (GEI) to admeasurement and admit low-emissions academy and appointment products. Buying these articles can advice you accretion Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) acceptance for your building, as appropriate by law in a growing amount of states and municipalities. More importantly, you accumulate the air in your academy apple-pie for your acceptance to breathe.

Look for USMarkerboard-Green.com to action a advanced ambit of advice on what it agency to go green, as able-bodied as admired assets apropos LEED(TM) and GREENGUARD(TM) certification. The new website aswell appearance a blog with all-embracing artefact profiles, tips on traveling green, and added advantageous information. Overall, US Markerboard-Green.com sets a new antecedent with its growing alternative of blooming academy appliance accurate to accumulate barrio apple-pie and acceptance healthy.

For added advice on this announcement, or to agenda an account with Scott Newman, amuse alarm Marguerite Gallinaro at 781.961.8762 x241 or e-mail Marguerite at marguerite@briteinc.com.

About US Markerboard: Since 1997, US Markerboard has offered consumers the better alternative of whiteboards, advice boards and appointment appliance on the market. Today, US Markerboard caters to above companies and institutions such as Honda, Boston University, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, NASA, Alcoa, and The Gillette Company, as able-bodied as top-rated TV shows such as Law & Order, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Today Show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Live with Regis and Kelly. In accession to its capital website at USMarkerboard.com, US Markerboard operates 5 websites for industry and chump specific niches: USMarkerboard-Green.com, BriteInc.com, MapsAndGlobesPlus.com, NationwideOfficeSupply.com and ClassroomPlus.com.

The .03 Percent Solution to Global Environmental Challenges

Towering challenges to the connected acceptable development of the abridgement after adverse the ambiance crave action today, not in 20 years if it may be too late. A change in mindset can accompany massive changes to the environment, states Philip Mills Lutterodt, President of IMX Green.

-- Towering challenges to the connected acceptable development of the abridgement after adverse the ambiance crave action today, not in 20 years if it may be too late. A change in mindset can accompany massive changes to the environment.

"By demography into consideration, the impacts that the systems and architecture abstracts we use in architecture can accept on the environment, not just in the architecture stage, but aswell in the annihilation date at the end of the activity of the building, and in its circadian existence, and authoritative acquainted choices to abbreviate the appulse on the environment, we can crop able accomplish appear convalescent the all-embracing bloom of the planet", according to Philip Mills Lutterodt, President, IMX Green at http://www.ImxGreen.com

Mills-Lutterodt commented, "By application addition activity sources, eco-friendly manufacturers and energy-efficient products, as able-bodied as sourcing bounded blooming materials, IMX Green is able to advance the way in planning developments with the minimum ecology footprint."

Recently, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) presented a groundbreaking report, "Environmental Outlook to 2030". In it they apprenticed countries to about-face their bread-and-butter anatomy appear a low carbon greener and added acceptable model. If no action is taken, greenhouse gas emissions could abound by 52% in 2050 one over one billion added humans will be living.

While GDP is accepted to bifold by 2030, it would amount hardly added than 1% of that advance to put in abode behavior that would cut the capital air pollutants by over 30% and abate the advance of greenhouse gas emissions to 12% rather than 37%, if there were no changes made.

Green architecture and acceptable architecture will represent a $45 billion bazaar by 2010, with 10% of all homes complete condoning as green, according to arch industry sources.

About IMX Green
IMX Green is a arch blooming construction, eco-friendly architectonics and architecture aggregation that specializes in alive with developers to body environmentally amenable communities. Green or acceptable architecture is the convenance of creating convalescent and added resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition. Research and acquaintance added authenticate that if barrio are advised and operated with their activity aeon impacts in mind, they can accommodate abundant environmental, economic, and amusing benefits. IMX Green aswell provides solutions for all-embracing accessories leases and all-embracing architecture financing, as able-bodied as bartering accessories at broad prices.

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This Earth Day, Make a Promise to the Planet at GreenPromise.com

Earth Day is advancing and GreenPromise.com aims to activation all-around change through a new association affection on its Web site. My Green Promise lets users log promises to accomplish acceptable affairs changes. As incentive, for anniversary of the aboriginal 5,000 Green Promises made, GreenPromise.com will bulb a tree.

Pingree Grove, IL -- Just in time for Earth Day 2008, GreenPromise.com has launched a new alternate apparatus to advice users accomplish acceptable changes in their lives. Users can log on and abide Green Promises -- commitments to accomplish acceptable actions, ample or small, that will account the planet -- which will be displayed for the apple to see.

My Green Promise is an alternate database of alone promises to advance a added acceptable lifestyle. Green Promises are organized by chic and cover a description, obstacles faced, ambition date and percent completion. Users can apprehend and animadversion on Green Promises, forward clandestine letters to added users and amend the cachet of their own Green Promises. Other appearance cover accepting email reminders of promises fabricated and a chargeless account newsletter. Users 13 and earlier can actualize a chargeless anniversary at http://www.greenpromise.com.

We like to anticipate of this as a all-around To Do account for extenuative the planet Every change, no amount how acutely insignificant, becomes a agitator for added change. And if we can ability millions of humans through our site, the sum aftereffect will bound appearance that no change is too small. Key aspects of ambition ambience cover autograph down goals, ambience specific deadlines, advertisement obstacles and approved advance review. My Green Promise offers all these in an accomplishment to advice humans do added than just affiance to abide green.

"We like to anticipate of this as a all-around To Do account for extenuative the planet," said Kevin Thull, GreenPromise.com cofounder. "Every change, no amount how acutely insignificant, becomes a agitator for added change. And if we can ability millions of humans through our site, the sum aftereffect will bound appearance that no change is too small."

As an incentive, GreenPromise.com will bulb 5,000 copse through Trees for the Future -- one for anniversary Green Promise made. In accession to that, GreenPromise.com will bulb a timberline for every Green Promise fulfilled.

The website aswell will serve as a association of agreeing humans acquisitive to change their lifestyles in an accomplishment to advice affluence the all-around burden. Regardless of how blooming they are, My Green Promise offers users a adventitious to appearance their accurate adumbration of blooming with pride.

About GreenPromise.com
Launched in January 2006, GreenPromise.com is a growing ability abounding with affairs guides, all-embracing analysis, tips, featured products, accident calendars, action items and account on all things accustomed and amoebic to advice humans accept a blooming lifestyle.

The Las Vegas-Based N9NE GROUP Goes Carbon Neutral in 2008

Co-owner Jenna Morton spearheads a above action with Green Mountain Energy's BeGreen Carbon Offsets analysis through acquirement of renewable activity credits.

Las Vegas, Nevada -- The N9NE Group, a Las Vegas-based restaurant and bistro company, is traveling aloft and above reducing, reusing, and recycling by partnering with BeGreen, a analysis of Green Mountain Energy, the nation's arch retail provider of cleaner activity and carbon offset solutions. The N9NE Group is offsetting 100 percent of the absolute affected carbon dioxide emissions associated with its anniversary electricity, refrigerant, and accustomed gas use in 2007 and 2008 for six of its venues at the Palms Casino Resort. These carbon offsets accept the aforementioned ecology appulse as demography added than 350 cars off the alley annually, burying added than 19,000 trees, or recycling added than 10.3 actor aluminum cans.

Jenna Morton

We abide on this earth. It is the abode we all alarm home I'm appreciative of the efforts we've fabricated appropriately far, but carbon aloof doesn't cut it anymore. We are abbreviation our appulse on the foreground end. Our ambition is to accomplish traveling 'negative' positive. This acquirement shows abundant charge on the allotment of the N9NE Group, and it's accessible that Jenna and her aggregation are actual amorous about attention the ambiance for approaching generations It's one affair for a business to admit its ecology impact. The N9NE Group is assuming administration by demography action to advice affect change. to change the way ability is made. Under the administration of co-owner Jenna Morton, a self-described "granola," this accord is the N9NE Group's a lot of advancing action to date appear a bigger environment. A aggregate of Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and Forest Sequestration Offsets will cede N9NE Steakhouse, Nove Italiano, Rain Nightclub, ghostbar, MOON Nightclub, and the Playboy Club carbon neutral.

"We abide on this earth. It is the abode we all alarm home," states Jenna. "I'm appreciative of the efforts we've fabricated appropriately far, but carbon aloof doesn't cut it anymore. We are abbreviation our appulse on the foreground end. Our ambition is to accomplish traveling 'negative' positive."

The N9NE Group's charge to purchasing RECs from Green Mountain Energy Company's BeGreen analysis helps drive the development of added renewable activity sources by acknowledging the architecture and operation of cleaner activity projects like wind, solar, hydro, and biomass facilities. It will account an anniversary boilerplate of 1.5 actor pounds of carbon dioxide, a adverse greenhouse gas and arch contributor to global altitude change. A allocation will aswell be appointed for the AMP-Ohio/Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm amid in Bowling Green, Ohio. These RECs play an important role in continuing the allotment for this wind agent ability and advice account a allocation of the emissions from electricity use, a arch could cause of automated air pollution.

"This acquirement shows abundant charge on the allotment of the N9NE Group, and it's accessible that Jenna and her aggregation are actual amorous about attention the ambiance for approaching generations," comments Gillan Taddune, arch ecology administrator of Green Mountain Energy Company. "It's one affair for a business to admit its ecology impact. The N9NE Group is assuming administration by demography action to advice affect change."   

Additionally, Forest Sequestration Offsets were acquired to abrogate 100 percent of the accustomed gas emissions created by the venues in 2007. Trees will be buried in the Mendocino National Forest Hunter Fire Restoration Project through Green Mountain's backwoods aloofness partner, American Forests, offsetting 490 metric bags of CO2.

This accord with BeGreen and Green Mountain Energy Company added builds on the N9NE Group's connected efforts to abate its ecology impact. Jenna, the wife of N9NE Group architect Michael Morton and mother of three, drives a Volkswagen Jetta powered by recycled vegetable oil from N9NE Steakhouse. She has implemented a amount of blooming practices and articles throughout the N9NE Group venues. Their APEX System dishwashers not alone account how abundant soap and baptize is acclimated per person, but aswell adapt it by aural an all-overs if too abundant is used. The N9NE Group buys 100 percent recycled cardboard fabricated from post-consumer fiber, Biorenewables bottle cleaner, and ammonia and bleach-free All-Purpose Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner. In addition, all bottles and cans are recycled, all back-of-the-house advisers are accustomed reusable baptize bottles to abate artificial waste, and no aerosol cleaners are used.

Jenna is aswell committed to abundant added causes as Director of Community Relations for the N9NE Group. She actively supports DIFFA's (Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS) Style Council, After School All-Stars, Keep Memory Alive, the ONE Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Clean Energy Coalition, and Conservation International, a allotment of others.   
         
The N9NE Group, the Las Vegas-based aggregation founded by Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff, is amenable for the conception and operation of groundbreaking restaurant and bistro concepts in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Dallas. They launched their signature concepts, N9NE Steakhouse and ghostbar in 2000 in Chicago. With the 2001 aperture of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, they debuted N9NE Steakhouse, Rain Nightclub, ghostbar, and Skin Pool Lounge. After tens of millions of dollars in renovations, Skin was adapted into the new, adult Palms Pool & Bungalows in June 2006. In abatement 2006, added N9NE Group nightspots were added to the Fantasy Tower including Nove Italiano, the Playboy Club Las Vegas, and MOON Nightclub. The $3 billion Victory Project in Dallas, TX, which aswell opened in 2006, is home to N9NE Steakhouse, ghostbar, and Nove Italiano. The Las Vegas venues are amid in the Palms Casino Resort at 4321 West Flamingo Road. For reservations, or for added information, alarm 702.938.9999 or appointment www.n9negroup.com.

BeGreen , the latest solution-based artefact from Green Mountain Energy Company, provides businesses and consumers the befalling to account their carbon footprint through the acquirement of renewable energy, backwoods sequestration, and added activity based offsets. Green Mountain Energy Company, the nation's arch provider of cleaner activity and carbon account solutions, began in 1997 with a simple idea: "to change the way ability is made." The aggregation offers consumers and businesses the best of cleaner electricity articles application renewable sources such as wind, baptize and solar that advice abate the aggregate of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the air. For added advice amuse appointment www.greenmountain.com and www.begreennow.com.

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PNC Expands Environmentally Friendly Practices with Retail Banking Customers

Green Building Leader Offers Prius Giveaway, Incentives for Hybrid Car Purchases and Check Card Usage

Pittsburgh, PA -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), the nation's baton in environmentally affable buildings, today appear an action to advice barter go 'green' on the alley and in their circadian cyberbanking activities.

By accumulation our administration in blooming barrio with avant-garde articles and services, we can advice our barter to case smarter and accomplish their goals We admit the accent of astute investments and will abide to attending for means to abate our appulse on the environment. The eco-friendly incentives offered by PNC, which has 43 barrio certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, include: a Prius amalgam car sweepstakes and abatement accommodation ante to acquirement a new amalgam car and accounts energy-efficient home improvements.

"By accumulation our administration in blooming barrio with avant-garde articles and services, we can advice our barter to case smarter and accomplish their goals," said Neil Hall, controlling carnality admiral and arch of retail distribution, PNC Bank. "We admit the accent of astute investments and will abide to attending for means to abate our appulse on the environment."

Go Green: Incentives

PNC, whose administration was affirmed endure year with a brand of the appellation "Green Branch" by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, is alms incentives to consumers to animate environmentally affable practices. These include:
 

Hybrid Cars: A appropriate 5.74 percent fixed-rate accommodation is accessible for purchases of new amalgam cars. A sweepstakes with eight Toyota Prius cars, rated the a lot of fuel-efficient vehicle, aswell runs through May 31 above PNC's retail cyberbanking region. 'Green'Cards: To animate the use of analysis cards, which are fabricated from recycled artificial and to abate use of cardboard checks, new claimed or business blockage accounts opened by April 30 will accept a 5 percent abatement on condoning purchases through Aug. 31. Green Branch® locations: PNC has submitted 10 added branches for acceptance by the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2002, PNC became the aboriginal above U.S. case to architecture and assemble branches based on the council's requirements. The case currently has 41 certified locations above its retail cyberbanking arena with added beneath construction.
More than 50 percent of abstracts acclimated in PNC's Green Branch® locations are locally bogus or fabricated from recycled or blooming materials. Energy acceptance is bargain about 35 percent or added compared to a acceptable annex and baptize acceptance is bargain by about 4,000 gallons a year. Window walls are three times added able than cipher and accommodate an open, aerial amplitude for advisers and customers.

During the accomplished decade, PNC's charge to environmentally affable business practices has enabled the aggregation to lower costs and access ability and productivity, Hall said, as able-bodied as abate its ecology appulse aural communities it serves.

Besides added annex locations, added blooming barrio in development cover Three PNC Plaza, 23-story alloyed use architecture in Pittsburgh (opening 2009) and PNC Place, the new bounded address in Washington, D.C. (2010), to be complete abreast the White House.

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation's better adapted banking casework organizations accouterment retail and business banking; specialized casework for corporations and government entities, including accumulated banking, absolute acreage accounts and asset-based lending; abundance management; asset administration and all-around armamentarium services.

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US Markerboard Marks Earth Day With All-Green School Furniture Website

Leading banker in academy appliance unveils All-Green artefact lines.

Holbrook, MA -- With Earth Day fast abutting on April 22, US Markerboard, a arch academy appliance retailer, has appear the barrage of USMarkerboard-Green.com, a new website abounding with eco-friendly, high-performance desks, chairs, tables, markerboards and added classroom furniture. USMarkerboard-Green.com caters to the bazaar for blooming academy appliance by alms exceptional articles that accommodate recycled agreeable and low-emissions materials. As manufacturers advance bigger and greener articles over time, USMarkerboard-Green.com enables educators and consumers to crop the advance in a growing movement that assets drive on a circadian basis.

"Earth Day raises ecology acquaintance already a year, but added and added consumers ambition to crop the next footfall and accomplish a allusive and actual appulse every day." says Scott Newman, CEO of US Markerboard.

"USMarkerboard-Green.com gives able acceptance to our blooming manufacturers and empowers consumers to accomplish a absolute aberration with just a few abrasion clicks. On USMarkerboard-Green.com, every artefact you see is blooming and eco-friendly. So no amount what academy appliance or markerboard you buy, you're accomplishing your allotment to accumulate the Earth apple-pie and your acceptance healthy."

As allotment of its all-green classroom lineup, USMarkerboard-Green.com appearance an all-encompassing alternative of GREENGUARD(TM) certified academy furniture. GREENGUARD(TM) is an industry-wide accepted created by the GREENGUARD(TM) Environmental Institute (GEI) to admeasurement and admit low-emissions academy and appointment products. Buying these articles can advice you accretion Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) acceptance for your building, as appropriate by law in a growing amount of states and municipalities.

In accession to its all-green artefact line, USMarkerboard-Green.com empowers consumers with admired advice apropos LEED(TM) and GREENGUARD(TM) certification, as able-bodied as a blog with all-embracing artefact profiles and tips on traveling green. Overall, this new website provides a different one-stop ability area consumers can apprentice about attention the planet and crop an breath role through the academy appliance they buy.

For added advice on this announcement, or to agenda an account with Scott Newman, amuse alarm Marguerite Gallinaro at 781.961.8762 x241 or e-mail Marguerite at (marguerite @ briteinc.com).

About US Markerboard: Since 1997, US Markerboard has offered consumers the better alternative of whiteboards, advice boards and appointment appliance on the market. Today, US Markerboard caters to above companies and institutions such as Honda, Boston University, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, NASA, Alcoa, and The Gillette Company, as able-bodied as top-rated TV shows such as Law & Order, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Today Show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Live with Regis and Kelly. In accession to its capital website at USMarkerboard.com, US Markerboard operates 5 websites for industry and chump specific niches: USMarkerboard-Green.com, BriteInc.com, MapsAndGlobesPlus.com, NationwideOfficeSupply.com and ClassroomPlus.com.

Earth Day Money-Saving Tips Help Save the Planet, Too -- BIG GREEN PURSE by Diane MacEachern Says Consumers Can Afford to Live and Shop Green

As abundant as consumers ambition to stop altitude change, save energy, and "reduce, reuse, and recycle," they generally anguish that these accomplish are too cher or complicated. With BIG GREEN PURSE: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World (Available Now), blooming active able Diane MacEachern gives readers simple but able tips to advice them alpha authoritative eco-shopping and affairs changes today for a allusive appulse on the planet tomorrow. If you crop just a few suggestions from Big Green Purse, you will be on your way to accepting allotment of the band-aid instead of allotment of the problem. If money talks, Diane MacEachern is application chastening to say …MacEachern has shopped blooming for 20 years and has lots of tips for what's formed for her and what hasn't…In Big Green Purse, MacEachern encourages readers to crop the ability of the purse to an even college level. consumers animate manufacturers to abate pollution, save activity and water, use beneath packaging, and assure accustomed areas like rain forests. BIG GREEN PURSE explains absolutely how anniversary one of us can apprentice how to boutique acute and change the world. We can accomplish a aberration in the chase to save the planet but alone if we accomplish our money matter.

New York, NY -- As abundant as consumers ambition to stop altitude change, save energy, and "reduce, reuse, and recycle," they generally anguish that these accomplish are too cher or complicated. With BIG GREEN PURSE: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World (Available Now), blooming active able Diane MacEachern gives readers simple but able tips to advice them alpha authoritative eco-shopping and affairs changes today for a allusive appulse on the planet tomorrow.
Big Green Purse (Available Now)
"If you crop just a few suggestions from Big Green Purse, you will be on your way to accepting allotment of the band-aid instead of allotment of the problem." -- Laurie David, architect of StopGlobalWarming.org and a ambassador of An Inconvenient Truth

"If money talks, Diane MacEachern is application chastening to say "Save the Planet." …MacEachern has shopped blooming for 20 years and has lots of tips for what's formed for her and what hasn't…In Big Green Purse, MacEachern encourages readers to crop the ability of the purse to an even college level." -- Body + Soul

In BIG GREEN PURSE, Diane's a lot of cost-effective accomplish include:
 

Enjoy the eco-benefits of aggregate shopping: Whether at Costco, Sam's Club, or the bounded grocery store, buy the better amalgamation available. Ounce for ounce, individual casework amount alert as abundant as the abridgement admeasurement of any product. Buying in aggregate agency you'll crop beneath trips to the abundance to buy more; and you'll throwaway beneath debris overall. Switch to bunched beaming ablaze bulbs: they amount $2-$4 added at the time of purchase, but save $30-$50 over the activity of the bulb. Since they endure ten times as continued as an incandescent, you're alteration the ball far beneath generally - addition abundant time saver. Use Reusables. For example, one domiciliary blot costs $.99; one cycle of cardboard towels costs about $1.99. The blot lasts as continued as 17 rolls of cardboard towels, extenuative consumers added than $30 over the activity of the sponge. What about Water Bottles? Once you amount in the amount of the water, the bottle, the label, the cap and the activity acclimated to carriage the canteen to your store, bottled baptize can amount as abundant as 10,000 times added than tap water. You can save as abundant as $500 a year by affairs a clarify for your tap and a reusable baptize bottle.
In accession to her money extenuative tips, Diane argues that the fastest, a lot of effective, way to save the planet is to activate the a lot of able chump force in the world--women. Women absorb $.85 of every dollar in the marketplace. When they accouter the "power of their purse" and about-face their spending to eco-friendly articles and services, they can change accomplishment practices dramatically.    

"By affairs blooming products," addendum MacEachern, "consumers animate manufacturers to abate pollution, save activity and water, use beneath packaging, and assure accustomed areas like rain forests. BIG GREEN PURSE explains absolutely how anniversary one of us can apprentice how to boutique acute and change the world."

What Else is Inside Big Green Purse?

 

Dozens of sensible, acceptable means and actual strategies for blooming active that readers can absorb into their lives today Information on 25 bolt area women's dollars can accept the greatest impact, including food, clothing, cars, computers, coffee, cleansers, appliance and attic Eco-cheap strategies to advice readers save money but still abide and boutique blooming A account of affected "greenwashing" business techniques to abstain Standards-based guidelines and "thumbs up/thumbs down" ratings to advice shoppers about-face to eco-friendly products, companies, and services
While it is a fun and absorbing apprehend whose suggestions will save consumers $20-$50 a month, at its amount BIG GREEN PURSE is a call-to-action. "We can accomplish a aberration in the chase to save the planet," addendum MacEachern, "but alone if we accomplish our money matter."

Whether we've been dent down our purchases for years or are greenhorns if it comes to a blooming lifestyle, on some akin we still charge to shop. That's area our purses - and our ability to assure the planet - appear into play. With BIG GREEN PURSE, we can collectively change the world… and we can all acquiesce to do it.

About Diane MacEachern
Diane MacEachern is a bestselling ecology writer, approved accessible speaker, and architect of www.biggreenpurse.com, champ of the "Best Green Website Award" from Future Now in 2007. She has audacious the Environmental Protection Agency, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and abounding added agencies and nonprofit organizations focused on attention the planet. The columnist of the bestselling Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth, MacEachern lives in the Washington, D.V., suburbs in the energy-efficient home she helped architecture and body added than twenty years ago.

Green Proof Your Home Débuts on Earth Day 2008

Guiding America to Greener Living

Nashville, TN -- Green Proof™ Your Home, a residential consulting account advised to outline the simple accomplish of traveling green, debuted today. Just as baby proofing a home makes it safe for babies, blooming proofing a home makes it safer for the Earth.

Green is not a casual fad We will adviser you to greener active and appearance you how to accomplish added environmentally-friendly choices for your home. "Green is not a casual fad," said Tara Biller, architect and buyer of Green Proof Your Home. "Green Proof Your Home aims to accomplish your home safer for your ancestors and the ambiance after acutely alteration your lifestyle. Our mission is to appearance anniversary applicant that even the aboriginal of changes can accomplish a huge appulse on attention the Earth's assets for approaching generations. To accomplish this, we adviser our audience every footfall of the way, for whatever amount of blooming active they choose."

Green Proof Your Home offers an antecedent home appointment to advise humans how to accomplish "green" choices for their homes. This appointment includes a amateur kit of environmentally-friendly charwoman products, educational abstracts and a Green Proof plan of simple appropriate behavior modifications for greener living. Green Proof Your Home will aswell be alms an online ecology abundance and added casework including activity and baptize acceptance audits and retrofitting casework for activity and baptize conservation.

Green Proof Your Home is alive to breed cardinal partnering opportunities with avant-garde organizations, blooming builders, and retailers committed to advancement the standards of the ecology movement.

For added advice or to agenda a appointment amuse acquaintance Tara Biller at tbiller@greenproofyourhome.com.

About Green Proof Your Home
Headquartered in Nashville, TN, Green Proof Your Home is a residential "green home" consulting service. Its mantra is: "We will adviser you to greener active and appearance you how to accomplish added environmentally-friendly choices for your home." The aggregation offers casework from an antecedent home appointment to activity and baptize acceptance assessments and retrofitting services. For added information, amuse appointment www.greenproofyourhome.com.

In Honor of Earth Day, Ohana Companies Partners with the Go Green Initiative for 100 Percent Paperless Rebates to Ensure that Everybody Wins, Including the Earth

Ohana, the beat aggregation that is transforming the abatement industry with their new business archetypal area "Everybody Wins," afresh appear a affiliation with the Go Green Initiative to accomplish consumers, retailers and manufacturers acquainted of 100 percent paperless rebates. Ohana now offers their audience the "Go Green Sweepstakes," enabling shoppers to abide their rebates online for a adventitious to win amalgam cars and added eco-friendly prizes. A allotment of anniversary transaction amount will be donated by Ohana and their barter to the Go Green Initiative. Ohana offers the alone 100 percent paperless abatement acquiescence and accretion archetypal in the industry

Wilmington, DE -- Ohana, the beat aggregation that is transforming the abatement industry with their new business archetypal area "Everybody Wins," afresh appear a affiliation with the Go Green Initiative to accomplish consumers, retailers and manufacturers acquainted of 100 percent paperless rebates.

Ohana Companies Founder and President Chris Quinlan (left) and CEO Sean Kirker (right).

Ohana now offers their audience the "Go Green Sweepstakes," enabling shoppers to abide their rebates online for a adventitious to win amalgam cars and added eco-friendly prizes. A allotment of anniversary transaction amount will be donated by Ohana and their barter to the Go Green Initiative.

The Go Green Initiative is now the better and fastest growing absolute ecology apprenticeship affairs in the nation, operating in 49 states, Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Mexico and the United Kingdom. A simple, absolute affairs advised to actualize a ability of ecology albatross on academy campuses the Go Green Initiative unites parents, students, agents and academy administrators in an accomplishment to accomplish absolute and abiding changes in their campus communities that will assure accouchement and the ambiance for years to come.

"Ohana offers the alone 100 percent paperless abatement acquiescence and accretion archetypal in the industry," said Chris Quinlan, the architect and Chief Executive Officer of Ohana Companies. "Existing, mail-in abatement programs decay over 115 bags of cardboard in a individual year. The culprits cover diffuse abatement forms, assorted envelopes, and cardboard checks. Not including the accustomed assets acclimated to action and redeem rebates, in a year a individual year a banker would save -- over 800,000 gallons of water, over 45,000 gallons of oil, added than 2,000 trees, and abundant electricity to ability over 100 houses for six months on the Ohana platform."

Ohana's aggregation of avant-garde executives, with ample retail, marketing, banking casework and technology industry expertise, accept appear calm to transform the broken abatement archetypal that has balked consumers, retailers and manufacturers for decades.

Additional advice about the Go Green Initiative is accessible online at http://www.gogreeninitiative.org.

About Ohana:
Ohana Companies has around alone the inefficient and cher mail-in abatement and accomplishment action by alms the aboriginal 100-percent online band-aid to redeem, validate and accomplish rebates electronically. The aggregation utilizes revolutionary, patented and patent-pending technology and processes, alteration the way consumers, retailers and manufacturers participate in rebates and promotional marketing, ensuring that "Everybody Wins." Additional advice is accessible at http://www.EverybodyWins.com.

New Website Boasts - 'Play Our Green Game and Plant Trees for Free'

JogoGreen.com has created an internet game, that not alone provides abundant advice on how to be green, it takes it one acute footfall further, and crop people's thoughts and put them into action to save the environment. It is a bold that touts, "The added you play, the added you plant." So at no cost, added than time, consumers can appointment the site, play the game, and advice save the world.

Sarasota, FL -- Jogo Green started with a accepted infatuation, a dream to save the environment. While abounding sites goals are aimed to accession acquaintance of altered ecology issues, annihilation was accessible to accomplish a actual difference, at atomic at no amount to the consumer. It was this actual notion, a chargeless belvedere for consumers to save the environment, that birthed JogoGreen.com

JogoGreen.com has created an internet game, that not alone provides abundant advice on how to be green, it takes it one acute footfall further, and crop people's thoughts and put them into action to save the environment! It is a bold that touts, "The added you play, the added you plant!" So at no cost, added than time, consumers can appointment the site, play the game, and advice save the world.

Here's how it works: For every 10 questions that are answered accurately on the site, Jogo Green will bulb 1 tree. The copse are paid for by the advertisers on the site. Planting a individual timberline can crop 50 pounds of carbon out of the air every year. That doesn't assume like much, but if the boilerplate apple aborigine buried a individual timberline every 2 months, they would be carbon aloof over their absolute life. Jogo Green makes it fun and simple to bulb at atomic a timberline every day. Imagine the possibilities.

Recent chump studies accept apparent a cogent access in both individuals and businesses absent to advice protect/ save our world. Large corporations are analytic for means that they can help. Starbucks now offers Ethos water. Timberland shoes are labeling the aggregate of carbon emitted during the architecture of their altered shoes. Hallmark now has activity Red, and the account continues.

By creating a blooming website that allows consumers to accomplish a aberration in the world, the aggregation is assured that Jogo Green will serve as the belvedere for chump advancement and change.

"The ambition is to bulb 1 actor copse in a six ages time frame. This is abundant copse to crop 3 billion liters of carbon our of the air every year".-(Rob Balian, President of Jogo Green and Stanford Freshman) By alive in affiliation with Trees for the Future (to date they accept buried 50 actor trees) Jogo Green believes that it will accomplish a ample appulse on the earth's carbon brand over a abbreviate aeon of time.

What if by burying copse about the world, altitude changes could be antipodal and all-around abating could be reduced? What if endangered breed could be repopulated, economies grown, forests replanted and aliment provided for craving people?

Jogo Green believes it can and it will.

JogoGreen.com is the alpha of a bigger tomorrow. Visit the website today and crop allotment in accepting the change!

Remember, the anarchy starts with a click!

For added advice on JogoGreen.com appointment our website at JogoGreen or acquaintance Jessica Klauber.

Green Business Conference Focuses on the Payoff

The Business of Green, a one-day UCLA Extension conference, focuses on beginning blooming practices in a array of industries -- and how environmentally acceptable practices can advice both the ambiance and the antithesis sheet. The appointment takes abode Friday, May 23, in Long Beach, Calif.

Los Angeles, CA -- Zero-waste manufacturing, agent carpooling programs, LEED-certified buildings, appointment recycling initiatives: what's the adjustment for businesses that accept these environmentally acceptable practices? In an accessible appointment presented by UCLA Extension, leaders in entertainment, hospitality, accomplishment and added industries arresting in greater Los Angeles will authenticate how they absorb blooming business practices with absolute affects on both the ambiance and the antithesis sheet.

The Business of Green: What's the Payoff? takes abode Friday, May 23, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., at the Westin Hotel, 333 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802. The acceptance fee is $375; $425 on the day of the event, amplitude permitting. On Thursday, May 22, appointment attendees may accompany the alternative bout of the anchorage of Long Beach for an added $30. The bout of the state-of-the-art, environmentally acceptable anchorage lasts from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will apprentice what anchorage admiral accept done to acquire the anchorage the acumen of accepting one of the a lot of environmentally acceptable shipment accessories in the United States.

Southern California businesses are arch the way if it comes to developing environmentally acceptable articles and services The Business of Green appointment is our way of acquainted their achievements and allowance others apprentice how they can get involved. "Southern California businesses are arch the way if it comes to developing environmentally acceptable articles and services," says UCLA Extension Dean Cathy Sandeen. "The Business of Green appointment is our way of acquainted their achievements and allowance others apprentice how they can get involved."

Keynote apostle Gil Friend, admiral and CEO of Natural Logic, will present "Profit on Purpose", exploring a abolitionist old access to business action that re-envisions the risk/opportunity landscape, delivers absolute business amount and archive a advance for facing, arrive and profiting from the sustainability challenge.

Other highlights cover aperture animadversion from abecedarian and ecology activist Ed Begley Jr. Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster will bear a acceptable abode to the audience. In circumstantial sessions active throughout the day, participants will apprentice about amalgam ecology sustainability into banking statements, blooming business opportunities for baby companies and entrepreneurs, LEED-certified architecture practices, apple-pie and blooming manufacturing, blooming adventure basic and blooming business strategies.

Begley will abstinent the Green Giants of the Entertainment Industry console altercation in which admiral from Warner Brothers, Fox News Group and Reel Green Media will altercate the starring role that the ambiance is arena in an accretion amount of blur and television projects, on both abandon of the camera.

Insurance, addition industry with a able attendance in Southern California, is adverse accretion challenges from ecology disasters acquired by altitude change. In an allowance industry-focused console discussion, acknowledged experts and admiral from the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Lexington Insurance will altercate blooming business approaches to analytic the botheration of all-around altitude change.

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