(SkyNewswire.com) --- Recycling mercury-containing lights, such as fluorescent lamps and CFLs, provides many health, safety and environmental advantages. The main advantage of recycling used energy-efficient lights is in preventing mercury from entering the solid waste steam--where a portion of it is likely to be released into the environment. Another advantage is from the reuse of certain raw materials from mercury-containing lamps, including the mercury itself. Although the initial cost for recycling is higher than disposal to landfills, the cost is typically less than 1% of the electric savings allotted from the reduced energy use fluorescent lamps provide over traditional incandescent lights.(1)

(SkyNewswire.com) --- RecyclingConsultant.com is pleased to announce the addition of several new services. RecyclingConsultant.com now provides global recycling consulting services to businesses, governments and militaries that would like to develop or improve their recycling program to reduce their waste and disposal costs while generating additional revenue from the sales of scrap metal, waste paper and plastic scrap.

“What some people see as waste or garbage, we see as valuable commodities for reuse in industrial applications. We have global markets in need of all kinds of raw materials that will buy these recyclables or receive them for no charge, and even pay the shipping to their facilities,” says Marc R. Azous, CEO of RecyclingConsultant.com. “Every day millions of tons of garbage go to landfills that contain high percentages of materials that could be recycled.”

(SkyNewswire.com) --- The Vital Ground Foundation, a Missoula, Montana-based land trust dedicated to protecting habitat for the threatened grizzly bear and other wildlife, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary on September 11, 2010 at a special fundraiser in Park City, Utah. The organization will be hosting the fundraiser at the Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Lodge. Starting at 5:00 pm, the event will feature dinner, an auction, musical entertainment, and a rare live performance by Bart the Bear 2, the 1,100 pound grizzly featured in the recent films "Into the Wild" and "Did You Hear About the Morgans?"


Tickets are $125 per person and can be reserved by calling 406-549-8650 or visiting vitalground.org. Net proceeds will benefit Vital Ground’s conservation work in the Northern Rockies. Founded in 1990 by internationally recognized animal trainers Doug and Lynne Seus of Heber City, Utah, Vital Ground has worked with a variety of individual, corporate, foundation, agency, and community-based partners and supporters. In its twenty-year history, the group has helped to protect nearly 600,000 acres of crucial wildlife habitat in grizzly country, stretching from the Yellowstone Ecosystem of Wyoming to southern British Columbia and Alaska.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- GreenPaperProducts.com, an Eco-friendly company is working diligently in their category of disposable tableware to create a better environment for generations to come by limiting the amount of waste entering America's landfills. By offering a GREEN products line of biodegradable and compostable tableware, Green Paper Products customers can be one step closer to an earth friendly way of life. These disposable and compostable choices are a great alternative to the typical petroleum based products, reducing and hopefully eliminating much of our future dependence on petroleum. The potential environmental disasters coming to our landfills might be avoided by everyone taking a more proactive stance. Just one small step towards becoming more Eco-friendly can help and one of those first steps can be composting.


Composting is a process that can be done by anyone more easily than imagined, done nearly anywhere, and on a small or large scale. If a material is compostable, it breaks down into carbon dioxide, water and biomass at the same rate as paper. Compost is a combination of decomposed plants and animal materials and other organic materials that decompose into humus -- a rich nutrient-filled material -- which increases the nutrient content in soils. This creates rich, moist, productive soils that can help reduce or even eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers, and promote higher yields of agricultural crops.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- The European Energy online community www.european-energy.org – a platform for future generations – has gone online. The Facebook application connects people, who want to act to make our planet a cleaner place. Within the month of its launch, 2,000 members have already joined. The members of the community turn off all of their lights for an hour each night, they’ve replaced the majority of their light bulbs with energy efficient light bulbs, and they drive efficiently and prefer to walk over short distances. They do not use plastic bags for their daily groceries and don’t drink water from plastic bottles. They use environmentally friendly cleaners, print on both sides of the paper, recycle their trash and would rather fix than replace the products they use in their daily lives.

The application enables each user to mark the tasks they will perform in the coming month to meet the community rules. Every individual’s contribution is included in the community counter. If approved by the user, each chosen task also appears in their profile, enabling them to share with their social networks what they contribute to improve the life on our planet. In just one month, the community members have saved almost 40,000 kilowatts of electricity, recycled almost 48 tons of trash, saved more than 25,000 plastic bags and 93,000 plastic bottles, and reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by more than 2 tons. By using energy efficient light bulbs, the members have saved more than 20,000 kilowatts of electricity, and by not using poisonous cleaners and cosmetics, they have reduced the amount of water-polluting substances by 2 million liters.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Today, The Nature Conservancy and partners released a new report calling attention to the large number of river-dependent people that have been affected by dams around the globe. Published in a special issue of the Water Alternatives journal recognizing the 10th anniversary of the World Commission on Dams, the findings reveal that at least 472 million people have potentially experienced negative consequences to their incomes and livelihoods.

“There are many places where dams have undeniably provided economic benefits such as flood protection, irrigation, and hydropower, but as this report shows they have also caused serious consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people,” said Brian Richter, The Nature Conservancy’s Global Freshwater Program Director and lead author of the report. “At a time when global dam-building is rampant, we need to be smarter about planning for and operating dams in ways that alleviate harmful human and ecological impacts.”

(SkyNewswire.com) --- World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is set to benefit from increased recognition amongst young people around the world thanks to a mobile TV and video service that will allow viewers to watch video on demand dedicated to raising awareness of the United Nations event. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has held the annual event since 1972 and this year it will be hosted by Rwanda on June 5th and will celebrate the incredible diversity of the environment as part of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Young people are essential to the long term success of the project and the service launched by Yamgo, the global mobile TV and video network, will allow the UN to connect with a young universal audience. Yamgo has partnered with Green.TV, the world's first and leading online TV channel dedicated to the environment, to deliver clips and short films, from some of the world's leading environmental organisations, to raise awareness and promote the significant occasion.


Mike Lamond, Managing Director of Green.TV explained, "World Environment Day (WED) is one of the primary vehicles through which the United Nations encourages worldwide understanding of the environment and 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most extensively celebrated, global day for definite, environmental action. Green TV's partnership with both UNEP and Yamgo enables us to promote the importance of the environment to a young international audience and raise awareness and understanding of such a substantial subject on such a momentous day."

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Go green. Be green. Live green.
With the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) making the use of electronic signatures (e-signatures) legal on April 8, 2010, the real estate market can move to a paper-free environment. Now that bids, contracts, and signatures can be electronic, the mounds of paper used for the sale or purchase of a home can be replaced with electronic files.


Dotloop is a growing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio that promotes paper-free real estate as a way to streamline the buy/sale process. The Dotloop system provides REALTORS with a secure site to write an offer, counteroffer, negotiate, and finally approve and sign contracts in a fully web-based application. FHA's approval of e-signatures has opened the door for the Dotloop System to become the preferred tool of REALTORS around the country.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Greentech Environment Excellence Award 2009 in Gold Category in Service Sector. Last year, GTL has also won the Greentech Environment Excellence Silver Award in 2008 for outstanding achievement in Environment Management.


GTL has received this award for its contribution continuous efforts in reducing the consumption of natural resources as part of its environment management system. Greentech Foundation established in the year 1999 based in California, U.S.A. and New Delhi India is a non-profit organisation committed to recognize and celebrate ethos of outstanding performance in safety issues. Greentech Foundation has taken a lead role in promoting education, training, research and dissemination of knowledge, advancing the scientific, technical and practical aspects of safety at work place, environment protection and climate change.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Voyage Home Loans strives to make a difference in communities around the world through charitable and Green efforts monthly. To further their Green endeavors this summer, Voyage is launching their Plant-A-Tree 2010 program June 1. For every home loan that is started with Voyage throughout June, a tree will be planted in that person’s name anywhere in the US and abroad. Voyage hopes to plant at least 1,000 trees during the month through their partner, Plant-It 2020.


Plant-It 2020, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation, performs worldwide tree-planting, donates fuel-efficient cooking stoves to needy families, and provides forestry, soil, and biochar education. Voyage’s donation will help Plant-It increase the sustainability of the world's forests.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- We may not even recall after thinking hard that where we have dropped our old mobile phones after purchasing the new handsets. But to draw everybody's attention, the term Mobile Phone Recycling is not just exist but can also be exercised. Today's scenario where we are at the threshold of the worst environment. Every other day conferences and meetings are held to overcome this situation so that our coming generation should not face what we can foresee. We all are so much addicted to the this device which has brought lot of comfort to our life. Its high demands also result in its wastage in sense that almost all of us switch over to new handsets some or the other. This bound to happen either due to monotony involved with excessive use of handset or damage caused in the handset. But we should just throw away and forgot the old mobile handset.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Ducks Unlimited (DU) is calling all supporters along the Mississippi River to help out with the Great Mississippi River Cleanup on June 19, 2010. Living Lands and Waters (LL&W) has organized a river cleanup, but they need people with boats. DU is urging supporters to hitch up their boats and help in cleaning up the Mississippi River watershed, an area that is crucial to migrating waterfowl.


“Hunters and anglers have been, and always will be stewards of the land and waters. Nobody cares more about habitat than hunters and anglers,” said Dale Hall, CEO of DU. “Conservation is part and parcel of the outdoor experience, and we’re happy to support this effort.” Living Lands & Waters is hosting the first-ever simultaneous one-day cleanup of the Upper Mississippi River from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. The Great Mississippi River Cleanup will take place in 29 cities and five states along the river to remove trash and debris from the floodplains and wetlands bordering the Upper Mississippi River.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Earth Day is just around the corner, April 22. It is nice to have a special day to focus our attention on how we can improve our behavior and make the world a little greener. One way we can accomplished this without interfering with our day to day routines, is to make smart, green choices when purchasing products. In this case, Blu-ray Players. Of course we do not want to sacrifice quality either. We want products that are energy efficient that also performs at a high level of quality.


When choosing a Blu-ray Player you may want to start by looking for a blue Energy Star logo. This would mean the player is Energy Star qualified. Being ENERGY STAR qualified means the players have met strict energy-efficiency guidelines which have been set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These players will not only save you money but help the environment by stopping greenhouse gases linked with global warming. It is a very easy way to reduce costs for your home electronics. Products that have met Energy Star guidelines provide a 10% - 50% decrease in energy compared with standard models. This is all accomplished without limiting the product's quality or performance.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- It is no doubt that most citizens are bothered by the problem of huge energy cost every month. And all of us know clearly that without energy, we can barely live a single day! Is there a perfect way to solve our problems? Mr. Michael Harvey helps us find a way in his wonderful e-book—Earth 4 Energy.

Earth 4 Energy is a thorough e-book which will help you to build up your energy system step-by-step by your own hands and in your own way! With the rapid spread of the wave of renewable energy, there appear various books that introduce how to set up an energy device. However, undoubtedly, Earth 4 Energy is the best choice. Not only because it proved itself on the market in the first place, but also it has far more detailed information than its competitors as well as great reputation in the alternative world.

With simple and doable instruction, massive explanation of photos, illustrations and diagrams plus an assistant video containing the whole process, you are able to DIY a solar panels or wind turbine as your wish. Furthermore, Earth 4 Energy has fine service afterwards. You can send e-mails whenever you come across with problems in making the device, and will get satisfied answers in short time. In addition, you can sign up to attend the forum to communicate with other guests.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Innovative California based Environmental Developers Inc. (EDI) developers of the environmentally pure VRAD© Municipal Solid Waste Process, today announced the US Patent for their SBBC© (Solids Based Bacterial Colonization) Process which provides cities the option of environmentally pure and totally enclosed wastewater treatment. Large quantities of fecal matter can cling to foreign materials such as rags, condoms, diapers, unprocessed garbage, whole fruits and vegetables from canneries, sand, fist-sized rocks and lumber come floating, tumbling and sliding into the headworks of wastewater treatment plants. Such materials must be removed from the influent stream to prevent them from clogging up the system or bogging down the treatment process. The fecal matter stays with the materials when they are removed, and with the pathogens and possible viruses in the fecal matter, it presents a serious health hazard to the people who are involved in the removal, transportation and disposal of the materials.


In larger cities where sewage travels several miles to treatment facilities or where collection systems are such that flow rates are slow, bacterial growth can be deeply colonized into every crack and crevice in the materials, and rags and other porous materials are often densely packed with fecal matter that is well colonized with bacteria and quite putrid. The foreign materials are removed by a wide variety of means and commonly transported to the local garbage dump, landfill, or incinerator. A plant that processes 10 million gallons per day can, for example, accumulate several cubic yards of such material every day. In addition to the health hazard, the removal, transportation, placement or spreading of the foreign materials consumes large amounts of energy and accounts for a large percentage of total plant operating costs. Moreover, the open aerobic digestion of the fecal material produces great quantities of gasses that contribute to the greenhouse effect.