Learn More About The Green Movement
Green is not just a Color
Recommended links for more information
American Council for an Energy efficient Economy- Consumer Resources
http://www.aceee.org/Consumer/
Energy Efficiency and Energy conservation
Power$mart. The power is in your hands. Save Energy| Save Money| Save the Planet
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/housing/power-smarts/
Energy efficient
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=about.ab_index
Geothermal
Heat from the Earth, or geothermal — Geo (Earth) + thermal (heat) — energy can be and already is accessed by drilling water or steam wells in a process similar to drilling for oil. Geothermal energy is an enormous, underused heat and power resource that is clean (emits little or no greenhouse gases), reliable (average system availability of 95%), and homegrown (making us less dependent on foreign oil).
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/
Clean and Renewable energies
Clean Energy Research & Education Institute (CEREI), a national educational and scientific non-profit organization, is, aimed to ensure energy independence/security, economically and environmentally viable community through intensive scientific research efforts in the field of clean/renewable energies, and committed to academic excellence in science and engineering
http://www.cerei.org/
U.S. Department of Energy. A consumers guide to energy efficiency and renewable energy:
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/renewable_energy/ocean/index.cfm/mytopic=50010
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/renewable_energy/ocean/index.cfm/mytopic=50007
Water Conservation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. WaterSense, a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, makes it easy for Americans to save water and protect the environment.
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/
Earth 911, making everyday earth day.
http://earth911.org/environmental-topics/
Reuse beats recycling
Reuse is often confused with recycling, but they are really quite different.(Even those engaged in reuse frequently refer to it as recycling.) Reuse in the broadest sense means any activity that lengthens the life of an item. Recycling, on the other hand, is the reprocessing of an item into a new raw material for use in a new product — for example grinding the tire and incorporating it into a road-surfacing compound. Reuse is nothing new. What is new is the need to reuse.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/why-reuse-beats-recycling.html
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/reduce.htm
Global warming
http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/item3797.html?gclid=CJK0tPSi9ZUCFQNbxwodYmT5Nw
For Kids: Green Topics
Saving energy …for kids.
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/saving_energy/index.html
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences- kids pages –reduce, reuse, recycle
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/recycle.htm