What Can You Do Right Now?

Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.

 

Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)

 

Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)

 

Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.

 

Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.

 

Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.

 

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Green Articles

11/06/2009

Go Green: Cleaning

11/03/2009

Go Green: Ice cream

10/30/2009

Go Green: Homes

China puts up $1.5 billion for huge wind farm in West Texas
China is taking a big leap into the U.S. renewable energy market with a project in West Texas.

10/27/2009

Go Green: 801 Skinker

10/13/2009

Go Green: River Kids

* 09/03/2009

Study: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing
The study, released last month, predicted broad population declines across the globe in the coming years, including in a nesting area along the southeastern United States that is one of the world's largest.

08/27/2009

Go Green: Co-housing

* 08/20/2009

Obama admin. to end cash for clunkers on Monday
The Obama administration plans to end the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program on Monday, giving car shoppers a few more days to take advantage of big government incentives.

08/18/2009

Go Green: Cloth Diapers

08/13/2009

Go Green: Farmers markets

* 08/11/2009

GM says new Volt to get 230 mpg in city driving
GM came up with the 230-mile figure in early tests using draft guidelines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for calculating the mileage of extended range electric vehicles, said Tony Posawatz, GM's vehicle line director for the Volt.

* 08/10/2009

Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.

* 08/03/2009

Administration: Clunker deals could end by Friday
The government's wildly popular "cash for clunkers" program, offering $4,500 rebates to customers who trade in gas guzzlers, is likely to end Friday if the Senate doesn't approve $2 billion more for it, the White House says.

* 07/24/2009

WATCH: An electric bill to boast about: $0
Richard Vincent made a few changes that cut his electric bill in half. Then he installed 45 solar panels. "This year, I'm producing more [electricity] than I'm using," he said.

* 07/16/2009

Wal-Mart exec foresees eco-ratings for all
Wal-Mart has big hopes for a new effort to develop eco-ratings for products it sells - one that goes far beyond its own stores.

* 07/08/2009

Obama, G-8 leaders agree on climate target
President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the industrialized world Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming.

* 06/10/2009

Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down
The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming - the very problem wind power seeks to address.

05/26/2009

Company developing car to run partly on compressed air
Most car companies are racing to bring electric vehicles to the market. But one start-up is skipping the high-tech electronics, making cars whose energy is pulled out of thin air.

05/19/2009

WATCH: Obama wants increased fuel efficiency, less smog
President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday the nation's first comprehensive effort to curb vehicle emissions while cutting dependence on imported oil, calling the plan an historic turning point toward a "clean-energy economy."

* 06/06/2008

Clean the Bay and keep it green for future generations
What happens on land is going to impact water quality -- from the trash you throw on the ground to the oil that leaks from your car.

VIDEO

05/21/2008

6th graders learn about protecting the environment
The NOAA B-WET Program provides hands-on watershed education to students and teachers to foster stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay.

VIDEO

05/14/2008

Researchers in Hampton studying pollution's effects on our planet
"The idea is to improve our models that we use to understand climate change because only models are going to allow us to predict future climate change," says NASA Langley scientist Chris Hostetler.

VIDEO

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