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Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople’s six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1″ in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.

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(This is a reupload of our original video from July 2008)
16 years ago Colonel Earth and his partner, Crunchy Del Sol, brought ecological awareness to our nation’s children every Saturday morning. Although he was blind, Colonel Earth could detect the impending danger of our Earth’s future- and today more than ever his “tips for going green” stand ever pertinent.

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Becoming as energy efficient as possible is the one thing that each of us can do to help ourselves, our environment, and to ensure a future for our children.

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Bryce “Don’t Think Twice” Buttersworth and your man Lydell Bones share their ideas on how to save some motha f**** energy.

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David Suzuki has a few simple suggestions to save energy and be better to the planet.

For more tips on how you can make a difference visit http://www.DavidSuzuki.org/

Created by Ontario Powerwise. http://www.powerwise.ca/

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Here are 4 simple tips. Compact Fluorescent SAVES US $800 A YEAR IN MONEY! Air up your tires, proper tire pressure, Paint your roof white, lighter colored roofing saves money and slows warming, USE A TOASTER OVEN. Also we use our cargo containers for a demonstration, I will be showing you how to convert a cargo container into a living space.

Ironically, CFLs present an opportunity to prevent mercury
from entering our air, where it most affects our health. The
highest source of mercury in our air comes from burning
fossil fuels such as coal, the most common fuel used in the
U.S. to produce electricity. A CFL uses 75% less energy
than an incandescent light bulb and lasts at least 6 times
longer. A power plant will emit 10mg of mercury to produce
the electricity to run an incandescent bulb compared to only
2.4mg of mercury to run a CFL for the same time.

Always Dispose of Your CFL Properly
While CFLs for your home are not legally considered hazardous waste
according to federal solid waste rules, it is still best for the environment to
dispose of your CFL properly upon burnout. Only large commercial users of
tubular fluorescent lamps are required to recycle. If recycling is not an
option in your area (see below on how to find out), place the CFL in a
sealed plastic bag and dispose the same way you would batteries, oil-based
paint and motor oil at your local Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)
Collection Site. If your local HHW Collection Site cannot accept CFLs
(check Earth911.org to find out), seal the CFL in a plastic bag and place
with your regular trash. Mercury is an ingredient in several household products. Recycling programs exist for mercury in older non-digital thermostats and mercury thermometers, but residential CFL recycling programs are just now appearing. DID YOU KNOW a standard house Thermostat (older type in many houses) has 2,000x MORE mercury than one CPF bulb. Also it is in the form of a liquid and easily seeps into ground water or the air during incineration!

http://www.energyrace.com/commentary/more_on_mercury_coal_and_cfls_updated/

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