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Next time you bite into a banana, think for a moment what brought it to your store: Probably a wax coated box. A box that is difficult or impossible to recycle, depending on area facilities. It doesn't have to be that way.

The current options for recycling your cell phone all forget one thing: people are lazy. Pay to recycle? Right! Dig up an old envelope that came with your phone? Not going to happen. Sherwood Folee has a better idea: glue a tiny envelope on the inside of your battery cover. Open it, drop in the mail, done. Cell phone companies, are you listening?

New bipartisan legislation helps forests by reducing fire risk and will restore jobs to rural areas hard-hit by the recession. The bill could also boost localized biofuel production. Sounds like just what the country needs.

This one woman show humorously addresses a unique vision for ending global warming

While scientists warn of a precipitous decline in avocado raising, as well as some 99 other serious problems brought on by global warming, one blogger makes a thoughtful, considered wake-up call. He outlines some innovative solutions and pushes the mind.

Focus the Nation which is a project to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion about “Global Warming Solutions for America”, has published a sweet How-to video for organizing a teach-in.

Big ideas to stop Global Warming that work best, but would require too much cash. The cheapest? A Dr says that in order to reduce a quarter of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we should just "stop breathing."