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“Bottled Water:" Watch this video that depicts U.S. recycling of plastic bottles.      
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Living for the Future

Resources: ENERGY USE


Energy Myth-busters

Clean Energy Mid-Atlantic
A guide to buying clean energy for homes and businesses in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Alternative and Clean Energy
Links to organizations working on alternative energy sources.

American Coalition for Ethanol
A nonprofit membership association devoted to promoting the increased production and use of ethanol. 

How Biomass Energy Works
The Union of Concerned Scientists explain how plants, trees, oil plants and biomass residues can be converted to energy, and discuss the potential and viability of the use of these energy sources.

Renewable Fuels: Driven to Alcohol
An article from The Economist about Brazil’s ethanol fuel program and its attempts to run Brazil’s cars on ethanol made from sugar cane.

Educational website on biomass and bioenergy - benefits
From the International Energy Agency (IEA), formed to develop strategies for how to deal with oil shocks and energy crises.  A probiomass fuel site.

Questions and Answers
About ethanol fuel blends in cars (‘gasohol’).  What is gasohol?  Can you use it in a standard car engine?  Etc.  From Vincent Ciulla, Auto Repair columnist at About.com.

Making Better Energy Choices
From Janet L. Sawin

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green
How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? In honor of Earth Day 2006, the Worldwatch Institute teams up with the Washington, D.C. members of SustainUS, the U.S. youth network for sustainable development, to share some ideas on how to go green and save green at home and at work. 
 
 

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