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Family becomes zero waste household
Last Updated: 10:52 AM 02/09/12 - Becoming a zero waste household can happen one thing at a time Working towards becoming a zero waste household is not something new to Carol Bradford and her family; it is something they have been working on for the past 20 years.
How to lower your home energy usage
Last Updated: 9:55 AM 02/09/12 - It's easy to lower your utility bill Bluegrass Pride has provided some tips to lower your energy usage:
Grants for improving neighborhoods
Last Updated: 9:40 AM 02/09/12 - If you have a group who would like to make some improvements to a neighborhood or community, you can receive a grant!
Ways to turn your Valentine's Day green
Last Updated: 9:13 AM 02/09/12 - Turning your Valentine's Day green may not only be good for the Earth but affordable. Bluegrass Pride has several recommendations for making sure that treating that special someone in your life can be environmentally friendly.
Free Composting Workshop
Last Updated: 8:36 AM 02/09/12 - Home Composting Workshop
Green initiative launched for Kentucky schools
Last Updated: 10:44 AM 01/12/12 - Rep. Rocky Adkins launched the legislative plan Thursday morning. It's designed to make the state's schools more energy efficient.
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Old electronics can be recycled in Lexington
Last Updated: 11:18 AM 12/28/11 - Fayette County residents can drop off unwanted electronics at the Lexington E-Cycle Center on Versailles Road.
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Hospital using solar power
Last Updated: 3:51 PM 12/22/11 - Officials at Rockcastle Regional Hospital in Mount Vernon say they're among the few hospitals in the nation using solar power.
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Bluegrass PRIDE encourages green holiday shopping
Last Updated: 1:27 PM 12/09/11 - Bluegrass PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment) is encouraging holiday shoppers to support their local and green businesses this season.
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Study highlights Lexington's parks shortcomings
Last Updated: 11:07 AM 12/08/11 - Compared to other mid-sized cities, Lexington is among the worst for dedicating land for parks.
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The Kentucky Center plans to go green
Last Updated: 8:36 AM 11/28/11 - The facility in Louisville is working toward a new environmentally friendly roof.
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UN: Concentrations of greenhouse gases hit record
Last Updated: 6:22 AM 11/21/11 - The U.N. weather agency says concentrations of global warming gases are at record levels from emissions that exceed scientists' worst-case scenarios.
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Ground broken for UK green energy research building
Last Updated: 8:02 PM 11/08/11 - The building, under construction at Research Park Drive, off Iron Works Pike in Lexington, will create new and environmentally sound ways of converting coal and coal biomass into liquid fuel.
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Algae being used to turn power station waste into biomass
Last Updated: 10:26 AM 10/24/11 - UK has received more than $1 million to demonstrate carbon capture technology.
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Folks in one town drinking toilet water?
Last Updated: 2:56 PM 08/10/11 - As a possible solution to a drought problem that's plagued one Texas town, efforts are underway to develop a way to recycle toilet water into drinking water.
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New school will be most 'green' in Lexington
Last Updated: 5:43 PM 07/27/11 - A new elementary school will be a lesson in itself, teaching students the importance of being environmentally friendly.
Push to recycle in city parks
Last Updated: 8:19 AM 07/25/11 - Lexington is using a $50,000 federal grant to push recycling in the city's parks. It's added recycling containers and dumpsters, in hopes of increasing collection.
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BP adopts new safety standards for Gulf drilling
Last Updated: 7:55 AM 07/15/11 - BP saBP adopts new safety standards for Gulf drillingys it has adopted new, safer standards for deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Waste audits underway for local businesses
Last Updated: 5:23 PM 07/13/11 - Businesses around Lexington are cleaning up their act and going green. But first, they must roll up their sleeves and dig through the trash!
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Promotion planned for Dump the Pump Day
Last Updated: 10:52 AM 06/16/11 - In Lexington, Lextran will offer free rides for the day.
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Project Green Report
Last Updated: 5:05 PM 05/20/11 - Bluegrass Pride is holding their annual rain barrel competition fundraiser. And your help is needed in cleaning the groundwater supply as well as sprucing up a local park. Here's more in this Project Green Report.
KY school system adds hybrid buses to fleet
Last Updated: 4:58 PM 05/05/11 - Madison County schools are on the road toward reducing their carbon foot print. New hybrid electric school buses are being added to their fleet. The school system hopes this can be a great learning experience in being environmentally friendly.
Parts of the Gulf may not be doing as well as it seems
Last Updated: 9:56 AM 04/18/11 - Scientists worry looks my be deceiving in the Gulf of Mexico a year after the BP oil spill
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Toyota gives grants to make Kentucky green
Last Updated: 8:12 PM 04/13/11 - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky presented nearly $90,000 in grants today to five non-profit programs.
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Gulf officials using SUVs, iPad and other gear paid for by BP
Last Updated: 6:01 AM 04/11/11 - An Associated Press investigation shows that in the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear - much of which had little to do with the cleanup.
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Obama to detail US energy security strategy
Last Updated: 7:59 AM 03/30/11 - President Barack Obama is preparing to outline his plans for U.S. energy security during a speech at Georgetown University.
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US Energy Dept. program to cut costs for start-ups
Last Updated: 6:22 AM 03/29/11 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is making it easier for start-up companies to license groundbreaking technologies developed by the National Laboratories.
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Largest Ever Girl Scout Recycling Program
Last Updated: 9:38 AM 03/15/11 - On Girl Scouts’ 99th anniversary, Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council is sponsoring a Go Green initiative in the largest recycling program to date!
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Could air pollution play a role in ear infections?
Last Updated: 9:54 AM 02/28/11 - A study was conducted on 45,000 children in Canada.
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Alltech expands to produce algae products
Last Updated: 5:28 PM 02/23/11 - Alltech is expanding one of its facilities to include one of the largest algae production companies in the world. Wednesday was the ribbon cutting ceremony in Winchester. Now the green slime can be used for everything from animal nutrition to bio fuels.
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Feds fast-track mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy
Last Updated: 9:56 AM 02/28/11 - The U.S. Department of Energy says it intends to spend $50 million to speed the development of offshore wind farms, with a goal of issuing leases off four Atlantic Coast states by the end of the year.
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Consumer price index jumps on costlier gas
Last Updated: 6:06 AM 01/14/11 - Consumer prices rose last month as the cost of gas increased by the largest amount since June 2009. But outside of energy costs, there was little sign of widespread inflation.
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Gas prices expected to keep increasing
Last Updated: 11:38 AM 01/06/11 - The new year is bringing higher gas prices with it.
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BP: Multiple companies, teams contributed to spill
Last Updated: 6:18 AM 09/08/10 - Oil giant BP says in an internal report that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months.
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New hybrid school buses unveiled
Last Updated: 4:19 PM 09/01/10 - Hybrid electric/ diesel school buses are being funded by federal stimulus dollars.
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Lunch and Learn with MACED
Last Updated: 8:15 AM 08/27/10 - Join MACED and water heating and space heating experts to learn the latest in energy efficiency. Electricians, plumbers, HVAC contractors, solar installers, energy managers and operations teams are welcome.
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Experts: Gulf of Mexico far from cured
Last Updated: 5:59 AM 08/18/10 - More than a month after oil stopped spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, big questions remain about where it is.
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Why aren't there wind farms in KY?
Last Updated: 8:49 PM 08/16/10 - In a coal dominated state, environmentalists are looking into renewable energy as an alternative. So are wind farms possible in our area?
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US worried about climate deal this year
Last Updated: 6:18 AM 08/06/10 - The chief U.S. climate negotiator says some countries are backing away from agreements they made at a summit meeting last December on a global warming deal.
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Oil-fouled Gulf still has a long recovery ahead
Last Updated: 7:44 AM 08/05/10 - Even after stuffing the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well with enough mud to pack down the oil, federal officials aren't ready to declare victory over the stubborn spill yet. Neither are many Gulf residents, who have agonized as engineers launched one effort after another to finally quell it.
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White House: 75 percent of spilled Gulf oil gone
Last Updated: 5:59 AM 08/04/10 - Government scientists say three-quarters of the oil from BP's massive spill has been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces.
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BP: Mud seems to work
Last Updated: 5:57 AM 08/04/10 - BP says it has reached the "desired outcome" in a procedure in which it pumped mud down the throat of the blown-out well that is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico.
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KU provides tips on how to stay energy efficient during hot weather
Last Updated: 9:16 AM 08/03/10 - With temperatures expected to reach into the 90's Tuesday, Kentucky Utilities officials say there are several things you can do to reduce energy demand.
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BP engineers to start sealing well
Last Updated: 5:54 AM 08/03/10 - BP engineers in the Gulf of Mexico want to start sealing up the blown-out oil well today, but first they're running a test.
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Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good
Last Updated: 5:38 AM 08/02/10 - Today could be the beginning of sealing up BP's blown-out oil well for good.
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Buy Local, Eat Local
Last Updated: 5:08 PM 07/30/10 - The trend of buying local produce is growing across the Bluegrass.
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Dudley to outline BP plans to help Gulf recover
Last Updated: 6:03 AM 07/30/10 - Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley is set to outline his company's long-term efforts to help the Gulf of Mexico recover from the oil spill and will be getting help from a Clinton administration-era emergency management official.
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Oil pipeline leak pollutes major Michigan river
Last Updated: 5:51 AM 07/28/10 - Southern Michigan is learning that devastating oil spills aren't limited to the Gulf Coast.
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Ships ready to leave leaky well as storm brews
Last Updated: 5:30 AM 07/22/10 - Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico are preparing to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brings the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
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BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well
Last Updated: 3:36 PM 07/15/10 - BP says oil is no longer flowing from its broken well into the Gulf of Mexico
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