Green In The News
Basketball travels and travails for Prairie View's Grady Green (USA Today)
Grady Green long dreamed of playing major-college basketball, and he still dreams of playing in the NBA. He jokes about TV commercials featuring his own puppet, like Kobe and LeBron. Two years into Green's high school basketball career, his coach said he had the talent to be one of the best players in Texas. Green played in Adidas' Superstar Camp in 2004, which led to letters from schools such ...
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Kids catch the spirit of going green (The Beacon News)
Nick Keane may be only 6 years old, but he knows his light bulbs."These aren't fuel-efficient," the Plano boy informed a visitor who was trying to light four incandescent bulbs by pedaling a stationary bicycle at Yorkville's Green Fair Saturday.
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Green Career Training (KOIN News 6 Portland)
GRESHAM, Ore - Everyone is hearing stories about “going green,” but Mt. Hood community college is offering Online Career Training programs dedicated to “going green.”
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How America Could Get Rich by Going Green (CBS News)
China is Cashing in its Emerging Energy Sector - What Solutions Will Help the U.S. Catch Up?
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Brendan Smith: GE's Dirty Green Jobs (The Huffington Post)
Recent abuses suffered by GE's "green" workers -- who are now suing GE -- confirm our worst fears that there's little guarantee so far that green jobs are going to be good jobs.
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Divas lead green action (Peninsula News Review)
Helen Lupowitz wants to excite people about going green.
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‘Green’ investor-driven funding plan pitched as way to save St. Joe’s (The Chronicle-Telegram)
LORAIN — Will “going green” boost the tenant rate at St. Joseph Community Center for the foreseeable future? Thomas Kiser, president of Professional Supply Inc. of Freemont, thinks it will and pitched an investor-driven funding plan to finance the project to City Council’s Finance Committee Monday night. Kiser and a partner company, SolarVision LLC, told Council they [...]
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Tri-Cities: A model for going green (KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities)
A former congressman from Eastern Washington says the Tri-Cities should brand itself as a model of a green community.
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Green River Lady Pirates play at state tourney (Emery County Progress)
The Green River Lady Pirates were able to handle the Dugway Lady Mustangs during a play-in game to secure a spot going in as the third place team in region 19 in the 1A State basketball tournament held in Richfield at the ...
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Should You Invest In A Green Home? (Investopedia)
Going green is getting a lot of attention. International climate change talks, hybrid cars and concern about the environment have caught the attention of home builders and homebuyers alike.
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Palo Alto Company Helping Empire State Go Green (CBS 5 Bay Area)
About a year ago, the owners of the Empire State Building announced that the iconic structure was going green. The company planned to spend $20 million to reduce the carbon footprint of the structure. That move has created a big project for one Bay Area company.
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Yogurt CEO: Going green good for business and the planet (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Gary Hirshberg grew up the son and grandson of workers in shoe manufacturing, a dying U.S. industry that eventually moved overseas. His early impressions were that businesses were big polluters, their goal was to offer the cheapest products and that they were not a reliable source of income to
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White House Easter Eggs Go Green (WDIO Duluth)
The White House is going green for this year's Easter Egg Roll. The 2010 official souvenir egg for childen attending the event is made from Sustainability Forest Initiative certified paperboard, which uses no wood fibers from endangered forests, and will be painted purple, pink, green or yellow, with vegetable oil-based inks and a water-based coating.
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How Fundraising Helped Shape Obama's Green Agenda (Time Magazine)
The White House has backed billions in public subsidies for green-energy technology. How fundraising and policymaking mix in the Obama era
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White House Green Eggs (ABC News)
The White House is going green for this year's Easter Egg Roll White House - Egg rolling - Glee - Michelle Obama - Easter
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Free Agent Defensive End Jarvis Green to Visit Teams Monday (New England Sports Network)
Defensive end Jarvis Green will be breaking out a shopping list for the first time in his NFL career, but which NFL team will be going Green in 2010? The eight-year veteran, who became a free agent this offseason, is planning to meet with multiple teams on Monday, according to The Boston Globe. The Green camp hasn't released any of the teams it will be in contact with, but did mention that the ...
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Davenport and sister city going 'green' (Quad-City Times)
Davenport is going international in its efforts to be a greenercity.
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Western Michigan defeats Bowling Green 75-73 (AP via Yahoo! News)
David Kool scored 20 points and Flenard Whitfield added a career-high 19 as Western Michigan defeated Bowling Green 75-73 Sunday in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament.
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Western Michigan defeats Bowling Green 75-73 (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
David Kool scored 20 points and Flenard Whitfield added a career-high 19 as Western Michigan defeated Bowling Green 75-73 Sunday in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament. Western Michigan, the seventh seed in the conference tournament, will meet No. 2 seed Central Michigan in the quarterfinals Thursday in Cleveland.
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SMPA to enroll all customers in ‘Green Cents’ program (Telluride Daily Planet)
San Miguel Power Association’s “Green Cents” program is going opt-out.
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