Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Action News and CNYcentral.com are spotlighting the members of our community who make everyday a Green Day! Each Wednesday, Action News will showcase efforts to protect our environment and natural resources.

If you know if a person, family, business, school, or organization who deserves to be recognized, email us at news@cnycentral.com and let us know about it. Then, check back here each week to see how you can make everyday a Green Day!

 


Green Days: Farm in the City   

The farm is smack dab in the middle of Little Haiti in Miami.

Green Days: Website helps mothers worldwide   

Emily and three others first developed the site selling organic baby food from a guest bedroom and then branching out to diapers, new toys, soaps, and clothes.

Green Days: Looking Back at 2010 - Oil spill devastates the Gulf   

One story, that could have a big impact for years to come, was the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Green Days: Electric cars   

It's being hailed as the first all electric car to be mass-marketed.  It will start becoming available in select US states soon.

Green Days: Man Builds Turbine for Holidays   

A windmill made with some factory-second parts, an alternator with a coil he wound himself, and hand carved-wooden blades.

Green Days: Wheego makes world debut   

Electric car hits the streets.

Green Days: Non-toxic clothing for kids   

Each design, true to the Kalamkari dyeing and Indian block print design. all made by hand in Bindu's village. For these two women, green was the only way to go.

Green Days: Stopping Asian Carp from migrating   

Engineers say it could take years before anything substantial is put into place.

Green Days: Power vampires   

They bite your outlet and drain your electricity.

Green Days: Habitat for Humanity goes 'green'   

Building energy efficient homes.

Green Days:environmental and safe way to disperse oil   

Some of the other dispersing agents used in the Gulf oil cleanup are harmful to inhale or even to touch.

Green Days: Recycling human waste   

The start of this methane gas plant makes essentially everything you flush reusable.

Reducing the carbon footprint of education   

Students and teachers took orientation classes to learn how to use the school and reduce the carbon footprint further.

High voltage rescues   

Another major concern for these first responders are the electrical systems in these vehicles. Some have a 300 volt motor in them.

Harnessing the ocean's power   

A barge harnesses energy as tidal waters stream in and out of the bay.

Battle for new electric cars revs up   

The cars are sharing another incentive, federal tax credits of $7500 per car.

Motel 6 setting new ‘green’ standards   

This is the first  LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified economy hotel in the nation.

Green Days: Beetles being used to help water levels   

Healthy adult trees can consume up to 200 gallons of water a day,  bad news for a lake more than 15 feet below normal levels.

Green Days: Wind turbines   

The University of Iowa is making a push to prepare students for a greener workforce.

Using rain barrels to store water   

It is a lot less wasteful than putting out a sprinkler, and using community water.

Lawmakers seek to speed efforts to stop Asian carp   

A group of lawmakers on Wednesday said the idea to stop the spread of the invasive Asian carp by permanently separating waterways linking the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes should be looked at with increased urgency.

Gulf Coast losing beach wedding business   

Much of the oil has not reached the Florida coast but already some people are canceling or moving their wedding plans.

Green Days: Hydrogen fueling stations   

In the Gulf of Mexico, there is one giant billboard for switching our economy to one based on hydrogen.

Solar farming: making money and helping the planet   

It's part of a provincial initiative to generate more green energy, while at the same time, stimulating the solar industry.

Green Days: Environmentally friendly beer   

The cost of the new tanks and their shipping was in the tens of thousands of dollars.

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