The shipping industry's carbon footprint has gone unrecognized by big green plans like the Koyoto Protocol. "Commercial shipping emissions have been one of the least
studied areas of all combustion emissions," says Daniel Lack, a
scientist at the Washington DC-based National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Until now.

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The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) allows farmers, ranchers or
any individual who owns environmentally sensitive land to avoid contributing to
water pollution and soil erosion, both of which are common and serious
problems on sloped land, areas near a water source, or land that is
otherwise particularly susceptible to erosion. But what’s CRP’s fastest selling point? Landowners actually get paid to enroll their land.

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In April 2008 Toyota announced
that sales of their dominating hybrid, the Prius, had reached the 1 million
mark; 1,028,000 to be exact, with the vast majority of sales being conducted in
North America and Japan.
According to Toyota, the 1 million
Prius (yes, Prius is the plural form) contributed to 4.5 million tons LESS in
carbon dioxide pollution.

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Half of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads during the Olympics to help clean the city's noxious air for the games.

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The Amazon Rainforest is so large and filled with life, that its defenders aren’t sure exactly what they are protecting from harm. "The wealth of biodiversity is so immense, we cannot even estimate the amount we don't know," says Cláudio C. Maretti, Brazil-based director for conservation for the World Wildlife Fund. "Every new expedition you do to the Amazon, you might find one new species of fish.

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Americans are constantly throwing away items that can be recycled or reused. I found this list of interesting statistics about different items including metals, paper, styrofoam, plastic, glass, and some miscellaneous items. Some of these numbers are so profound, even I was taken a back by the large amounts.

METALS

* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half
a gallon of gasoline.

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Here's a list of 10 things you can do around your home to make it an enviornmentally friendly reteat haven. These things are simple and easy to do with a lot of advantages for the future.

1)Build it Green

Trees, in a word, rock.

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