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...just buying a live tree doesn't guarantee a green Christmas. Instead of simply tossing your tree in the trash on Dec. 26, recycle it. Thousands of municipalities across the country offer Christmas-tree-recycling programs; you can look them up on earth911.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will even collect discarded trees and use them to create underwater forests in man-made lakes, sprucing up the habitats of fish and other aquatic critters...
...Extreme greens opt to get a real tree with root-ball intact, keep it alive through the stressful holiday season--then find a place to replant it. That might be easy if you have a green thumb and a backyard big enough to absorb a Douglas fir: lug the potted tree inside for the holidays, then outside once your New Year's hangover has cleared. If you keep the tree in a planter, you can reuse it every year and save...
...Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "Just having a living thing in the house can enhance environmental values in a way you can't measure in dollars and cents." So may your days be merry and bright, but may all your Christmases (and any other holidays) be green...
...supposedly create jobs for Tanzanians, but when I spoke with SEKAB, a Swedish biofuel company, they told me production would be mechanized, requiring fewer workers. If they truly want to meet “development” goals, biofuel companies would have to make choices that may not reduce green house gas emissions or generate profit, choices these companies are unlikely to make...
...Harvard Beverage Authorization Team distributed green wristbands to students who were of age, but many HoCos did not actively check for such verification...