"In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish..."

check out the website - www.pangeaday.com

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The folks at www.greasecar.com are doing some great things to recycle some of the cooking oil that restaurants otherwise pay to have disposed. "Restaurants can produce as much as 100 gallons of waste oil per week, which they're willing to give away."

Greasecar makes a converter for diesel engines that will let your car run on the used cooking oil. It costs just under $1000. They've been at it for a few years now and have built up quite a business.  These converters work with both old and new diesel engines.

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I can't find the earlier post requesting info about any info on eco-villages, so I'll just post this info here for anyone interested.

This is a new eco-community still setting things up in MA.

Check it out.

http://www.sawyerhill.org/

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TEENS and others...

Want to find out some good volunteer opportunities that are in your area?

Check out this site http://www.dosomething.org/

If you want to do something good with your cellphone and your free time check it out!

"Do Something Now" is a database of volunteer opportunities for teens.

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TEACHERS - Spend a week this summer learning about Henry David Thoreau and Walden Woods in Concord, MA and earn credits/PDPs for the experience. You'll love hiking around in Thoreau's world, reading and spending every day sharing with fellow educators ways to incorporate the essence of Henry David Thoreau - "simplify, simplify, simply!" into your curriculum.

This is open to educators from around the world...very cool!

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We all have stuff in our lives...a lot of us have too much stuff...stuff we really don't need.

"From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.

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