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photo from: nyc.gov Just in time for days of temperatures in the upper 90s and triple digits, the City of New York has launched a program increasing the number of portable water fountains. The water fountains are being placed in several selected public places that are known to get high foot traffic over the summer: [...]

As LEED certification for buildings grows in popularity, so does the interest of those who aren’t familiar with the program. Our LEED guide explains the founding of the program, its rating systems, and its pros and cons. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Photo via Mykl Roventine Ecomagination is General Electric’s environmentally-focuses research and development program. We’ve watched Ecomagination for years now, including eyeing it for greenwash, and the program has continued to grow, even becoming the first corporate tenant in Masdar City. And now, it is about to get a whole lot bigger as GE invests a [...]

The EV Project has extended its program to include free home chargers for qualified buyers of the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf in Los Angeles and D.C. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Certificate for a fake restaurant obtained through the Greener Restaurants program of the National Restaurant Program, provided to TreeHugger. A few weeks ago word started coming out about how the new Greener Restaurants program from the National Restaurant Association, which appears to certify restaurant’s efforts to tread more lightly on the planet, wasn’t worth the [...]

Photo: Flickr, CC A Better Bike-Sharing Program for Washington DC Washington DC’s SmartBike, the first bike-sharing program in the USA, is about to be supplanted by a much bigger and better bike-share. It will be based on Montréal’s Bixi and grow the number of bikes and stations almost ten-fold!…Read the full story on TreeHugger

With interest increasing in electric vehicles (EVs), the automotive industry is going to need a pool of engineers able to build EVs as adeptly as modern engineers can assemble and tweak conventional cars. Thanks to stimulus package from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), many of those engineers will emerge from the Michigan-based Wayne State [...]

Photos via Recology Recology is a program run out of the San Francisco Dump, bringing artists to the landfill to make new, beautiful things out of whatever they find coming in from trash cans. TreeHugger has visited the dump before, and the art coming from the Recology program is amazing…but now, so too will be [...]

Photos via Recology Recology is a program run out of the San Francisco Dump, bringing artists to the landfill to make new, beautiful things out of whatever they find coming in from trash cans. TreeHugger has visited the dump before, and the art coming from the Recology program is amazing…but now, so too will be [...]

The Reconnect program operated between Goodwill Industries International and Dell has long offered tech junkies a means of recycling old computers instead of junking them. Now, those looking to ditch their Xbox consoles and Zune entertainment devices in an environmentally safe manner can also participate in Reconnect, as Microsoft has announced its involvement in the [...]