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Think Recycle is a cost-free fundraising program that rewards members with money and environmental incentives for the collection of unwanted electronics including laptops, tablets, cell phones, digital cameras, inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges! Organizations that are eligible to participate in Think Recycle include schools, charities, institutions, churches, teams, clubs and even businesses.

Think Recycle works with more than 20,000 members, across the United States and Canada, to meeting their fundraising and environmental goals.

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Tools of Change provides a very accessible set of resources for promoters of environmentally-friendly habits, products or services, including a Planning Guide, specific Tools of Change, and Case Studies illustrating their use. This introduction defines what we mean by "environmentally-friendly". It also reviews the promotional challenges we face in engaging individuals to take action and, at a broader level, in achieving more sustainable economic development. Finally, it provides a site guide tailored to your interests.

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The Community Energy Partnerships Program (CEPP) provides grants of up to $200,000 to community renewable energy projects in Ontario. The money can be used to fund design, development and regulatory approvals phases of community power projects.

Join CEPP staff for a web-enabled conference call on WEDNESDAY JUNE 2nd, 10 a.m. - noon, to learn about eligibility criteria for CEPP, funded activities, and resources in the community power sector in Ontario.

Renewable Energy World / 18 May 2010

Frontenac County, north of Kingston, Ontario, has launched a new Green Energy Task Force in order to "provide opportunities to citizens, farmers, businesses, and local governments of Frontenac County to be involved in and invest in the green economy, particularly through the development of community energy projects." Councillors from each of the Frontenac townships will sit on the newly created task force, but the county will also seek citizen appointees with specific expertise in the solar and wind industries.

Eureka Times-Standard / Jessie Faulkner / 29 January 2009

TRINIDAD -- Education, interaction and action are key to creating a more environmentally responsible community.

That's the focus of Greener Trinidad, a newly formed citizen action group that is hosting its kick-off meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Trinidad Town Hall. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration scientist Mike Ives will speak on “Climate Change: Global and Local Impact.” [...]

BBC News / Lord David Puttnam / 28 October 2008

[...] There is a pressing need to understand how we can draw on the drive of local communities to reduce CO2 emissions.

This means not just focusing on innovation in science and technology but also on the innovative ways communities can work together and with other partners, to deliver tangible solutions to climate change.

MSNBC / AP / 06 July 2008

ALBANY, N.Y. - For years, Mel Williams rarely ate fruit and vegetables — unless it came out of a can.

Fresh produce was too expensive or too far away until the state-funded “Veggie Mobile” started bringing the fruits and vegetables to him at a lower price.

“I’m a diabetic and I have problems with my heart,” the 66-year-old said. “The canned stuff has so much sodium in it. So now with the fresh fruit, it’s less sugar and carbohydrates and stuff.”

Williams is one of millions of Americans living in a “food desert,” urban or rural areas unserved by a big grocery chain that can serve up fresh foods at lower costs. He’s in Troy, a former industrial city about 10 miles from New York’s capital.

With the rapidly climbing cost of food and fuel, states and nonprofit groups are finding ways to get healthy food to these underserved areas [...]