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Green Living Contest

The Great Green Challenge

In the Community

Individual or group-based -- these ideas show how changes in the community can make an impact.

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holiday lights recycling Green Living Tip

holiday lights recycling

Green living tip by: danette_c_lam federal way, WA

Last holiday season, my 9 year old daughter, Jessica, wanted to start a program to save the environment and make a difference in her own community. Together, we came up with t...

Just Do The Right Thing! Green Living Tip

Just Do The Right Thing!

Green living tip by: eclecticstyle Farmington Hills, MI

Most people don't want to join a recycling revolution or clean up after others and some feel the Earth is too foregone, or will be fine by itself. However, with the tremendous...

Junk Mail Recycling Green Living Tip

Junk Mail Recycling

Green living tip by: RootsAndShootsMama Scottsdale, AZ

As a project for our Roots & Shoots group (www.resourcesforhealth.org), our family started recycling junk mail at our apartment complex. The apartment complex management r...

Students for Recycling Green Living Tip

Students for Recycling

Green living tip by: lpoole1980 Hinesville, GA

The Students for Recycling Program is an initiative of Keep America Beautiful that each community can then take on if it so chooses. Students at Midway Middle School, Liberty ...

Saving The Landfills Green Living Tip

Saving The Landfills

Green living tip by: mash33026 Pembroke Pines, FL

Wondering around my neighborhood, it bothered me to see things being tossed that I thought still had life. I started hauling my treasures home. I found an old wooden headboa...

Be a Nature Steward Green Living Tip

Be a Nature Steward

Green living tip by: Violet90295 NY

Spring emerges overnight with Eastern Bluebirds warbling at dawn! Our youth Pioneer Club is proactively partaking an enterprise project on Arbor Day and Earth Day in April. W...

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