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Thursday, October 06, 2005
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Life would be so much easier if we weren't always struggling to clean up our grandparents' messes! -- Brian Tokar, Utne Reader, November-December 1989.
[Source: Rodes, Barbara K. and Rice Odell, compilers. A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.]
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Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today announced the opening of the 2006 Environmental Education Grants Program to help schools, universities, nonprofit organizations and county conservation districts develop projects to increase environmental literacy among Pennsylvania's students.
To request an application manual, write to the DEP Environmental Education Grants Program, P.O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063; or call 717-772-1828. The deadline to submit applications is December 17, 2005. For more information or to download an application, visit DEP's Web site at http://www.dep.state.pa.us, Keyword: "EE Grants."
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Starting in July, the European Union will ban lead from electronic equipment. The ban means that electronics manufacturers must replace a material that's long been a staple of the industry. Harvey Black reports in the October issue of Environmental Health Perspectives on the ban's impact. [SEJ Environmental Journalism Today]
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The National Arbor Day Foundation is inviting fifth-grade students across the country to showcase their artistic talent - while learning about trees - with its annual Arbor Day National Poster Contest.
Themed "Trees are Terrific ... in all Shapes and Sizes," the contest is cosponsored by Toyota and encourages students to learn about the importance of tree diversity in a community and show off their creative flair by designing a poster to reflect this year's theme. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the contest.
Educators can sign up by visiting http://www.arborday.org/postercontest, by writing to: The National Arbor Day Foundation, P.O. Box 85784, Lincoln, NE 68501-5784, or by sending an e-mail to education@arborday.org. They will receive a free activity guide on the importance of trees in a community, including in-depth lesson plans, hands-on activities, and detailed contest information. Last year, more than 75,000 fifth-grade classrooms received the materials. Deadlines for the contest vary by state and can be found at http://www.arborday.org.
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Sugar futures have hit their highest level in nearly 10 years on expectations more Brazilian cane will be diverted to the biofuel ethanol as oil prices rocket and on heightened interest from investment funds. [Source: PlanetArk.com]
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Young environmentalists in Negros Occidental who call themselves 'Solar Generation Youth' are pushing for the use of solar energy instead of using fossil fuels. [Environmental Health News]
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From windmills to solar panels, from continuous hot water heaters to geo-thermal heating, the new Michigan Energy Demonstration Center showcases alternative energy technology that can reduce consumption and save money. About 50 people came to the new facility Saturday morning for the grand opening, held at the M-TEC campus of Northwestern Michigan College. The center features a partial home built in the bay of the Construction Technology program, demonstrating the myriad ways that commercial and residential construction can go green. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News]
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Sales of corn-burning stoves and firewood are heating up as people look to escape soaring fuel costs this winter. By By the Associated Press. [Stateline.org RSS - Energy]
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As students return to classrooms this fall, their teachers will have brand new tools to help keep them safe. The nonprofit Home Safety Council is introducing a free home safety education program for elementary school children. Produced in partnership with leading educational publisher Weekly Reader, these materials are being sent to more than 130,000 teachers nationwide free of charge.
The program materials -- Safety Rangers Say No to Dangers and Code Red Rover, Grownup Come Over! -- are available to teachers on the Home Safety Council's Web site (http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/teacher). The Safety Rangers Say No to Dangers printed materials are being sent to 113,000 teachers of children in grades one to three and Code Red Rover, Grownup Come Over!, a new home safety animated/live action video, is being sent to 18,000 second-grade teachers.
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Oregon's move to require cleaner cars will reduce greenhouse gases in the state by about 12 percent by 2020 - assuming that the effort survives a legal challenge by Republican lawmakers and automakers, a new report estimates. [Environmental Health News]
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The Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse located in Denver, Colorado, was recently highlighted at the 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference in Tokyo, Japan. The courthouse, built by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), was the only submission by the 2005 U.S. Team for the Green Building Challenge, an international effort to evaluate and improve the performance of buildings worldwide. Members of the US Team include some of the top experts in the country in sustainable design.
Started in 1996, the Green Building Challenge, collaboration among 12 participating countries, was established to develop approaches for measuring the environmental performance of buildings taking into account regional and national conditions.
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Record high fuel prices force U.S. to revisit politically touchy issue. [Source: San Francisco Chronicle]
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The National Children's Study -- planned to be the largest study ever undertaken to assess the effects of the environment on child and adult health-took a major step forward on Sept. 29 with the announcement that contracts have been awarded to six Vanguard Centers to pilot and complete the first phases of the study. The full nationwide study would follow a representative sample of children from early life through adulthood, seeking information to prevent and treat such health problems as autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News]
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Dozens of states, frustrated over federal actions or inaction on the environment, are trying to fill the gap with their own green initiatives - or are filing lawsuits to block federal changes they say would weaken existing environmental regulations. By Mark Clayton. [Stateline.org RSS - Home]
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TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 6, 2005 - A new survey of 160 annual reports has found that 36% of North American annual reports surveyed published a separate section on sustainability or corporate responsibility. [GreenBiz.com]
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Washington's approach to climate change reflects the importance that energy security and China play in America's future. By Jeff Erikson [GreenBiz.com]
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Results from WWF's first European-wide family bloodtesting survey released today found a total of 73 man-made hazardous chemicals in the blood of 13 families (grandmothers, mothers and children) from 12 European countries. The full report is available at http://www.panda.org/downloads/toxics/generationsx.pdf.
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2005
Laura L. Barnes.
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11/1/2005; 1:07:35 PM.
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