livescience.com - 12/11/2008
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Still debating on whether to go real or artificial for this year's Christmas tree? According to Newswise, the winner is that old-fashioned, living, breathing, carbon-sequestering noble fir (or any living Christmas tree, for that matter). Clint Springer, Ph.D., a botanist and global warming ...
christmastree.org - 12/17/2008
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Real Christmas Trees Are Recyclable. Real Christmas Trees
are biodegradable, which means they can be easily reused...
or recycled for mulch and other purposes. To learn about the many ways that Real Christmas Trees are being recycled and reused in ...
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National Christmas Tree Association: Recycling Programs
inhabitots.com - 12/17/2008
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inhabitots.com —
Wondering how to recycle your tree once Christmas
has come and gone? Rest assured, "O Tannenbaum" has...
plenty of life left in those lovely branches once he's finished sprucing up your home. The National Christmas Tree Association is a great resource ...
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HOW TO: Recycle Your Christmas Tree
treehugger.com - 12/13/2008
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Every year the Tate Britain Art Museum commissions
an artist to decorate its Christmas tree. Last year's...
was covered with guns and fighter planes, another was hung upside down and yet another year there was just a note saying the tree had been given ...
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Christmas Tree Uses Pedal Power
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Christmas Confession
Green Daily —
... I bought a fake Christmas tree. There, I've said it. I know just horrible fake trees are. Their plastic, the miles traveled from China or Tawain it sailed before ending up in my living room are bad, bad, bad. I know all the facts but what it came down to was money. ...
GreenMonk news roundup 12/12/2008
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Super-Concrete to Store Solar Power in Works : TreeHugger
Researchers at the University of Arkansas are working to develop a new way of storing thermal energy in concrete. They were given an award from the U.S. Department of Energy in the sum of $770, 000 dollars as part of the federal government‘s program to create inexpensive solar energy storage
tags: energy store, concrete
Fake Christmas Trees Not So Green | LiveScience
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