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As more people decide to live a green lifestyle, they’ll have to consider how the decision impacts their relationships and friendships–for better or for worse. Greeniacs who talked to RedEye said they’ve attempted to push their friends and family members to also go green, sometimes to disastrous results. Trying to force others to change their wasteful ways, some eco-friendly Chicagoans have learned, can alienate friends to the point that the only meaningful relationship the environmentally conscious have left is one with the Earth.

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The pupils at Canfield Village Middle School want to save the environment, one aluminum can at a time.

Teacher Vicki Latimer said the kids collected 1,924 pounds of cans in October — the most ever turned in to Mahoning County’s Green Team in one month.

Three years ago, pupils in Latimer’s fifth- and sixth-grade STAR class, approached her about starting a recycling project at the school. The goal of the class, which integrates science and technology, is to raise $20,000 — enough money to replace the school’s current track, made of dirt and gravel, with recycled scrap rubber from tires.

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Hangers? I mean, seriously, do we really need eco-friendly clothing hangers?

“Do we ever,” says Danny Schrager, CEO of Mountain Valley Recycling in Morristown, Tenn. “Ninety percent of America’s clothes are now imported, and every garment that comes in from overseas comes in on a hanger — 30 to 40 billion of them each year.”

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For clean technology investors in China, the future is bright. There is a perfect positive storm of government policy, consumer awareness, capital, land, engineers and entrepreneurs lined up to create and sustain a very long run of successful investments.

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Indiana public employees and visitors to the Government Center’s cafeterias will now be eating and drinking out of bio-based plastic containers made from Cereplast compostable resins.

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How do you know it’s a green year at Corning Community College during our 2008 academic year? Students are having a slightly different experience in their art, biology, theater and machine tooling classes.

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Environmental Defense Fund has released a five-step framework to help companies minimize the environmental impact of their corporate fleets while protecting the bottom line. The new report, “Greening Fleets: A roadmap to lower costs and cleaner corporate fleets,” highlights the work of EDF and PHH Arval in developing the industry-leading approach to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without increasing costs. A PDF is available at www.edf.org/greenfleet.

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A new report analyzes how far advanced top companies are in addressing climate change and adopting environmentally friendly policies

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Applications that can help to better manage power and cooling and improve management, automation, load and capacity administration of these servers, will be in demand across the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region.

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Andy Revkin makes a needed point, that an American bright green recovery can’t happen without a lot of new innovation, and thus a lot more people working on innovation.

Read the full story in the Christian Science Monitor.

America’s dream factory is out to put its reputation for waste in the can.

With a huge carbon footprint, and possibly more influence than any other industry, big TV networks and movie studios are partnering with major environmental organizations to go green. A growing list of behaviors once cutting-edge such as recycling, composting, and using wind, solar, and alternative fuels have become commonplace in Hollywood.

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A children’s book author hopes that her new Christmas story will help kids realize that they can have an impact on global warming.

Santa Goes Green (Mackinac Island Press, $15.95) is the story of a boy, Finn, who writes Santa and asks him to help raise awareness about global warming. Finn is interested in the environmental issue because he has adopted a polar bear, and polar bears are losing habitat to global warming.

RR – 113 Materials and Energy Efficiency in SMEs / Bierma, Thomas J.; Marsch, Dan. –  Champaign, IL: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2008.

RR – 112 Investigation of Metal and Organic Contaminant Distributions and Sedimentation Rates in Backwater Lakes along the Illinois River / Cahill, Richard A.; Salmon, Gary L.; Slowikowski, James A. –  Champaign, IL: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, 2008.