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I'll get some flack for this, but my family refuses to keep these in our house.

CFLs are often marketed as having "minimal" levels of mercury, but the fact is that the mercury in one bulb is enough to contaminate 6,000 gallons of water below safe drinking levels. But on a more personal level, I don't want these around my daughter. Years ago, when we were on the CFL bandwagon, a bulb broke on our floor. Luckily we knew the cleanup drill (which, depending on who you talk to, involves between 4 an… Continue

Here they are:

1. Baltimore
2. Milwaukee
3. Portland, OR
4. LA
5. Minneapolis-St. Paul

I was surprised to see Portland Oregon up there. Go here to find out why these cities are bad news.

Though I must say that when I was at UCLA back in the eighties, I used to be able to smell the #$@ in

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Only 16 out of 32 NFL teams use synthetic grass. Real grass needs to be replaced, cut, and fertilized throughout the season, and of course the water required to maintain the fields is exorbitant. The EPA says that just one hour's use of a gas mower (a fraction of energy/gas usage required to maintain a pro field) is equivalent to a 100 mile car trip. And grass clippings in storm drains further contribute to water pollution by decaying and releasing nutrients that upset the ecol

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From Working Mother...

"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."

WM's Greenest Companies are: Nau, Herman Miller, Burt's Bees, Aveda, Discovery Communications, J&J, P&G, SC Johnson, Linda Loudermilk, PNC Financial Services, Wells Fargo, PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Home Depot, WalMart, Dell, IBM, GM, Honda, Toyota

Find out why here.

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Compact fluorescent bulbs, widely touted as more eco-friendly than their incandescent brethren, arguably pose a greater environmental threat by leaking mercury into our rivers and oceans. This company touts LEDs as the most eco-friendly alternative.