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Let your fingers walk over to the opt-out option to cancel your phonebook
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
If it feels like you are finding a new phonebook on your door step every week and yet, you can’t remember the last time you opened one to get a number, listen up. The industry may be walking away, albeit in baby steps, from its paper-wasting ways.
These days there are multiple ways to get a phone number without having to thumb through a directory. With sites like www.yellowpages.com and www.superpages.com many people are turning away from print phone books and using online versions. There are even free phonebook applications for phones such as the iPhone and Blackberrys.
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Tags: · AT&T, Florida, opt out of phone books, phone books, White Pages, Yellow Pages
Green getaways: LEED-certified vacation retreats
By Clint Williams and Sommer Saadi
Green Right Now
Sustainability and nature appreciation walk hand in hand. But surprisingly, there are still just a few U.S. vacation venues lodged lightly in nature’s embrace. If you want to “go green” you can camp out all over North America, but you can’t necessarily find a hotel that hugs the woods (or the beach) and boasts full green credentials and white linen service.
Here are a handful of green getaways that nestle nature, but don’t necessarily involve nesting with nature. We set the bar fairly low, requiring that these hotels have mattresses, hot food, indoor showers, and a LEED rating of some sort. We begin with Callaway Gardens, a great place to enjoy a respite from urban hustle amid botanical delights.
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Tags: · Callaway Gardens, Clearwater, Florida, Georgia, Green Hotels, green lodgings, green vacations, Napa Valley, The Gaia Hotel and Spa, The Sandpearl Hotel, The Vancouver Conference Center, Vancouver, Washington
Click to plant a tree
From Green Right Now Reports
 Odwalla is continuing its successful plant-a-tree program by donating $100,000 worth of trees to be planted in state parks in California, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Utah, Ohio, Texas, Maryland, Michigan and Virginia.
Visitors to www.parkvisitor.com/odwalla can choose their preferred state to receive a tree — no contribution or registration is required. The trees will be used to support important reforestation and planting initiatives across the country.
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Tags: · California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Odwalla, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia
Kitson & Partners planning solar-powered city in Florida
Rendering: Kitson & Partners
This rendering of the Babcock Ranch project shows the solar panels and green roofs that will be used to manage energy needs.
From Green Right Now Reports
Real estate developer Kitson & Partners today announced an agreement with electric utility Florida Power & Light to build a large solar photovoltaic power plant at Babcock Ranch, Fla. – making it the “world’s first city powered by solar energy.”
Kitson & Partners said the 17,000-acre city of Babcock Ranch will consume less power than the proposed FPL on-site solar facilities will produce. The city also will be integrated with a “smart grid” that will provide greater efficiencies and allow residents and businesses to monitor and control their energy consumption.
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Tags: · Babcock Ranch, Eric Silagy, Florida, Florida Power Light, Kate Johnson, Kitson & Partners, Sierra Club, Syd Kitson
U.S. power plant carbon dioxide emissions dropped slightly in 2008
From Green Right Now Reports
A softening economy and a milder-than-usual winter contributed to a decline in carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants in 2008, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project.
EIP officials noted that the decrease is a departure from the recent trends, with power plant carbon dioxide emissions having risen 0.9 percent since 2003, and 4.5 percent since 1998, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Tags: · Alabama, Colorado, Environmental Integrity Project, Florida, Georgia, Ilan Levin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, West Virginia
NRDC issues list of Filthy 15 states to bear the brunt of future coal waste
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Seeking to show that proposed new U.S. coal plants would exact a high environmental toll even beyond their carbon air pollution, the Natural Resources Defense Council issued a list today of the states that would bear the greatest burden from coal waste.
Texas, with eight proposed plants, topped the NRDC’s “Filthy 15″ list. It was followed by South Dakota, Florida, Nevada and Montana, Illinois, South Carolina, Ohio, Wyoming, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri , Wisconsin, Georgia and West Virginia.
Those states have 54 proposed coal plants awaiting permitting. Across the nation, there are 80 proposed plants that would dump an estimated 18 million tons of dangerous coal combustion waste annually into various dump sites, largely unmonitored by the federal government.
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Tags: · Carbon Emissions, coal ash, Coal Power, coal waste, Filthy 15 list, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky Missouri, Michigan, Montana, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
NRDC’s ‘Filthy 15′ future producing coal states
Here is the Natural Resources Defense Council’s list of the 15 states that would be the biggest polluters — the “Filthy 15” — based on their total of 54 planned coal plants that create nearly 14 million tons of dangerous waste (state; number of proposed plants; estimated coal ash waste in tons):
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Tags: · Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Florida plans to recycle campaign signs
By Barbara Kessler
Recycling. It works for campaign slogans. Now the government of Florida figures it can work for those accumulating campaign signs as well.
The state is encouraging local entities to come up with innovative plans in hopes of recycling 75% of the signs that line local lanes and thoroughfares in the run up to the election Nov. 4, according to the Environmental News Service.
By encouraging candidates and citizens to recycle the signs instead of trashing them, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will be working toward its mandate to reduce waste heading for landfills by 75 percent by 2020.
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Tags: · Florida, Recycle & Reuse
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