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City of Plano Sustainability Initiatives 2006-07 Progress Report
Live Green, Lead Green - Environmental Award Nomination Deadline Approaches
The Environmental Star of Excellence Awards celebrates the strides the City of Plano has made as a community over the last year in environmental initiatives and honors the people and community partners making a difference.
Click here for Nomination packets. An application form must be included with each nomination and must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Aug.1, 2008 by a third-person nominator or by self-nomination. Click here for more ...
YardWise Rebate
As part of the continuing Live Green in Plano initiative, the City of Plano is pleased to announce a YardWise Landscape Beautification Rebate. Click here for more information ...
Home Depot Kicks Off Nationwide CFL Recycling Program
June 24 -- Recycling compact fluorescent light bulbs just got easier. Home Depot announced it will offer free CFL recycling at each of its 
1,973 locations.
Customers can drop off expired, unbroken bulbs at the returns counter of any Home Depot store.
The home improvement retailer is beginning the program in response to customers´ concerns about improper disposal of the bulbs, which contain small amounts of mercury.
The national recycling program is the most widespread of its kind and offers an alternative to some existing options -- community hazardous waste programs and select retail stores, according to the retailer.
"With more than 75 percent of households located within 10 miles of a Home Depot store, this program is the first national solution to providing Americans with a convenient way to recycle CFLs," said Ron Jarvis, Home Depot´s senior vice president for environmental innovation.
Contact Waste News intern Caitlin Saniga at (330) 865-6164 or wnintern@crain.com
Into Great Gardening With Our Classes! Adult Classes Youth Classes
May 15 , 2008
Washington, D.C. -- It's the U.S. energy boom that no one knows about. Energy efficiency may be the farthest-reaching, least-polluting, and fastest-growing energy success story of the last 50 years. But it also is the most invisible, the least understood, and in serious danger of missing out on needed future investments. In the first attempt to quantify the overall impact of the hidden U.S. energy efficiency boom, a major new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) shows that U.S. energy consumption (as measured per dollar of economic output) will have been slashed by the end of 2008 to half of what it was in 1970, from 18,000 Btus to about 8,900 Btus. Click here for more ...
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Gas Crunch Game Plan
- stay home one night a week for family time
- use mass transportation such as DART once a week to commute to work or to a special event
- discuss telecommuting as an alternative with your employer
- drive a hybrid or high efficiency vehicle
- plan and consolidate errands
- if a move is in your future, then choose to live closer to work
- join a car pool or create one of your own, go to www.RideSearch.com
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Paper or Plastic? NEITHER
Did you know billions of plastic bags are littering our planet? Did you know it takes up to 1,000 years for a plastic bag to decompose? Did you know reusable shopping bags can be used over and over again. Next time you go shopping, take your reusable shopping bag in and use it to bag your items instead of plastic or paper bags.
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Volunteer Corps
What is the Live Green Volunteer Program?
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Live Green Volunteer Program is a local training opportunity for volunteers to work in partnership with the staff of the Sustainability & Environmental Services Department and extend information throughout our community.
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What it means to be GREEN:
To Live Green in Plano means to create a community in which:
- We protect our environment by conserving resources, minimizing waste and reducing toxic products and materials.
- We have healthy ecosystems and sustainable neighborhoods.
- We integrate environmental values into the economy and our everyday lives.
Sustainability is often defined as "to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs." The City of Plano offers a broad spectrum of programs and educational opportunities to residents interested in living green.
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Click on Power to Choose
to discover tools for evaluating electricity service offers, and look for the  icon denoting environmentally-friendly products. |
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The City of Plano has made a commitment to do our part to save energy and help protect the environment. Join us and take the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge to change at least one light at home to an energy-efficient one, and help us reach our goal of 10,000! It's a small step that's already making a big difference.
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Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
How big is yours ? Click here to find out, and then do something about it!