In keeping up with our Healthy Home division of THE GREEN PROJECT of LONG ISLAND Americans spend some $1 billion each year on products designed to combat fleas. Many of these products do their jobs handsomely, but two of the most egregious chemicals widely used in flea collars, tetrachlorvinphos and propoxur, have been shown to cause damage to our brains and nervous systems, and are known human carcinogens.

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Greenfest 2010 will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2010 (raindate will be October 23, 2010) from 12 - 6 PM at Kennedy Plaza, Long Beach, New York.

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The status of PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) funding has recently been put on hold by an interpretation of the rules for selling loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. PACE funding has worked in many areas across the country and several states have designed new programs to use "stimulus bill" funds to set up these PACE revolving loan pools

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The practice of retrofitting buildings with simple, environmentally friendly technology like more-efficient boilers and better-quality windows has been around for years, but there is little research on how much energy these changes actually save — and by extension, how much money they can save landlords and lenders.

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The City of Long Beach was not the first to oppose the proposed Liquified Natural Gas Island that they want to build miles from Long Beach's seashores.

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