Yes We Can | 50Helping hands | India | Other countries Please navigate yourself through the states below and read more about how each state is Going Green. |
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| US States are listed in alphabetical order. Please click Previous or Next to go to the respective pages or click on these state links to find your state - AL-GA, HI-ME , MD-MN , NY-SC, SD-WY. | |||||||||
ALABAMA -Over 4,500 volunteers help clean up coast each year. 999,998 pounds of trash cleaned up in 2007.
GRCA educates the public on how to be "green". Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve-A program helping teach kids & adults how to be eco-friendly.  |
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ARKANSAS - State net metering laws allow Mills to connect his wind generator to the transmission grid used by the local utility company – Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation – and receive retail credit for the electricity he supplies. With net metering, customers use the electricity they generate first, reducing what they would normally buy from the utility. If customers generate more electricity than they use, the excess turns the electric meter backwards and the electricity goes onto the grid ALASKA-The Alaska Energy Authority Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency at the moment, funds or manages 47 different projects totaling to over 63 million dollars which are to help lower the cost of power and to be energy efficient. An Alaska State Wind Working Group has been created to identify specific state concerns and see to the obstacles to wind development in Alaska. This is a non-profit organization. |
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CALIFORNIA-California passed Amendment Bill 32 which requires the state to reduce global warming to 1990 levels by 2020. California is ranked 17th in the US for wind energy potential and leads the nation in wind energy production with the goal of powering 75% of the homes in the US. |
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COLORADO -A wind farm that has the largest wind turbines in the US. They produce enough energy to power 52,000 homes Flats 15 is a business that builds homes out of special concrete that is non toxic. This concrete replaces wood from trees and helps save energy. The Denver Zoo & University of Colorado are teaming together to convert animal waste into energy to power electronics. |
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CONNECTICUT- People rallied to help raise global warming awareness.
16-year-old Sam Allen make clothes to raise awareness. Clothes caught the attention of teen vogue.The shirts say stuff like "warm is not cool" and "Solar bare club" |
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DELAWARE-Delaware Solid Waste Authority offers recycling for Every resident of Delaware.On August 23, September 13 & 27 Best Buy and Computer Donation Management held events so people could recycle many electronics including; computers, printers, and Tv's , for free. Many Volunteers got together to collect trash across the Kitts Hummock community. Two boy scout troops also helped |
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FLORIDA-The U.S. Department of Energy says that Florida is going to try to use organic material(animal waste, plant fiber, etc…) to convert into fuel and/or electricity which could generate approximately 13.9 billion kwh(kilowatt-hours). This would supply around 15% of residential electricity needs per year. The State Government of Florida is cutting down CO2 (carbon dioxide) from automobiles and power plants. To do this, the state has to come up with strategies to reduce global climate change. |
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GEORGIA-The Georgia World Congress Center is going green.The plan is to reduce energy by 20% and waste to landfills by80%. Georgia Green & Health Schools are educating kids on global warming.
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