The Exclusively Green Community, Philly

Exclusively Green, LLC online community will be a place where people in Philadelphia can go to get information on environmental news. This will include the latest information about laws politicians are creating or have passed. Group events and on-line chat forums will also be posted on this site. The more people talk about the issues the more people will realize the importance of buying earth friendly and socially conscious products.

Monday, October 22, 2007

EDITORIAL: Energy Sources: Pa.'s clean machine

www.tradingmarkets.com: "Indeed, the United States needs an energy direction, and plenty of people are ready to lead the way -- starting with PennFuture's 33 award winners last week.

Towns like Upper Dublin and firms like Restaurant Taquet and Studioeec are purchasing 100 percent clean wind power. The Philadelphia Eagles are setting a corporate example by reimbursing employees who buy wind power.

Green construction projects, such as the Friends Center in Philadelphia, demonstrate it's possible to become fossil-fuel free, produce zero global-warming gases, and recycle water.

The Great Valley School District and Kraft Bus Companies have retrofitted school buses with pollution filters and fill their tanks with biodiesel.

Landfills in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties are turning waste and methane into electricity.

The United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh is educating the community on the benefits of compact fluorescent light bulbs."

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