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Chicago Launches Green Taxi Program
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsOn Friday, which happened to be Earth Day, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced the city's new Green Taxi Program. The initiative will reimburse taxicab companies that use hybrid vehicles or vehicles powered by alternative fuel. Unlike gasoline-powered cars, hybrids get better fuel economy, have cleaner emissions and do well at slow speeds or idling. "The Green Taxi Program provides an incentive to the taxi industry to reduce carbon emissions," Norma Reyes, Chicago's commissioner of the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, said at the Earth Day Celebration at Daley ...
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Parents to Change Record-Setting 10,000 Cloth Diapers
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsCloth nappies in hand, parents around the world will join up Saturday for the Great Cloth Diaper Change, a coordinated diapering they hope will set a new world record for the most cloth diapers changed at the same time. California mother Judy Aagard, owner of Tiny Tots Diaper Service and Baby Boutique, brainstormed the event as an Earth Day gathering for the Tiny Tots community. After contacting Guinness World Records and with the support of the nonprofit Real Diapering Association, she took the event worldwide. At 9 a.m. PDT Saturday, approximately 10,000 parents from 24 countries will ...
In Death Valley Heat, Salt Creek Pupfish Find a Way to Survive
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsIt's springtime, Earth Day, which means that one of nature's weirdest events is in high gear. But you have to take the heat to experience it. And you sort of have to live in a place called Devil's Hole. That's Devil's Hole in Death Valley, Calif. For starters, it's one of the hottest locations on Earth (summertime average temperatures hover around 115 Fahrenheit, and once reached 134 F). It features the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, a golf course that's more than 200 feet below sea level and trees that must extend their roots up to 60 feet down to find water. For all of its ...
Naked Ambition: How PETA's Strategy of Nearly Nude Protesting Pays Off
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe letters P-E-T-A stand for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," but you're forgiven if you thought they stood for "Publicity Events involving T and A." After all, it seems every time there's a slow news day, PETA is there to take up the slack by doing a publicity campaign revolving around attractive and scantily clad people -- usually women. The most recent, which took place last month on "World Water Day," featured some of PETA's vegan vixens taking showers in public places to illustrate how much water is wasted in meat production. Lindsay Rajt, PETA's campaign department ...
Feeling Green? Buy Paper Made Out of Poo
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsFinding your desk covered in animal dung doesn't have to be a bad thing. When it's in stationery form, at least. Whenever entrepreneur Michael Flancman talks about his business, there's usually an elephant in the room. That's because he runs the Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Co., a unique, environmentally conscious company based in Thailand that specializes in turning elephant dung into paper goods and stationery. Alternative Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. On any given day, Thailand-based entrepreneur Michael Flancman can be found scooping up elephant or cow poo at conservation parks ...
For Rocker Jackson Browne, Every Day is Earth Day
By Chris Epting - AOL News"I hope this doesn't mess up the bar," said Dennis Scrimo, as he ran a hose from the sink in the lower lobby bar at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, Calif. Snaking it across the lobby, he then hooked the hose up to a water filtration dispenser. Over the last hour, Scrimo has been a blur while rolling out the dispenser, make-shifting a hook-up and barking at backstage crew members for drinking out of plastic water bottles. Welcome to life on the road with Jackson Browne. Chris Epting for AOL News Jackson Browne in Anaheim, Calif., in January. Scrimo has been the legendary ...
Green Taxi Company Grows Fleet and Bottom Line
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsDiscount Cab of Glendale, Ariz., has earned a green reputation by incrementally adding Toyota Prius cabs to its fleet. When it announced its "GreenCabs for Blue Skies" initiative on Earth Day 2008, the company hoped to ultimately acquire 250 Prius taxis. As of Earth Day 2011, the company owns 350. To celebrate Earth Day and the three-year anniversary of its green fleet, Discount Cab will attempt to best its own record of taxi trips dispatched in a day. Additionally, the company will donate $1 from every ride to the Phoenix-area nonprofit Homeward Bound, which assists families struggling with ...
California Family Approaches Zero Waste
By Rebecca Delaney - AOL NewsYou recycle your junk mail and your water bottles, you bought some new energy-efficient light bulbs and you bring your own shopping bags to the grocery store. You feel pretty good about your green self, right? Well, meet the Johnson family of Mill Valley, Calif. All of their household trash for the past six months takes up slightly more than a wineglass -- and they are not hoarders. Courtesy Bea Johnson Bea Johnson and her family, of Mill Valley, Calif., are working toward a "zero-waste" lifestyle in they don't buy any food with packaging. They also compost food waste, using ...
Earth Day: The Planet's Most Extreme Places [PHOTOS]
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsHuman beings thrive in the middle of the road. Essentially tropical animals, we don't like it to be too hot, too cold, too dry or too moist. Our biological clocks are geared toward an even balance of light and dark. We're pack animals, but big crowds start to cause problems. But human beings are also notoriously bad at doing what's best for us. And so we push ourselves to places we were never meant to survive in, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the world. In honor of Earth Day 2011, we take a look at some of the most extreme places on the planet. ...
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