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Latest List Finds Sustainable Cities All Over the Map

What you can do: Make sustainable purchases that protect your local air and water quality. Get involved with local politics to bring sustainability to your area.

Green Energy Use Is Surging—And You Can Tap Into The Power

What you can do: Check with your local utility company to see if you can purchase green electricity.

Wind Power: Clean, Renewable, but Too Ugly for Some

What you can do: See if your property is suitable for a small wind turbine of your own; support state and local laws that will allow wind power sources to distribute electricity.

Ted Kennedy's 5 Greatest Contributions to Environmental Health

What you can do: Whatever your politics, take a bus ride, go car-free, take an uninsured friend to a free clinic, and buy some renewable energy credits.

Energy Festival Offers Green Living (And Cash-Saving) Tips

What you can do: Put your home on an energy diet that will save you money and help the environment.

Video: 5 Weird Bicycles in Action

What you can do: Whether it's eccentric or ordinary, spend some time riding a bike to burn calories and avoid burning fossil fuels.

4 Ways to Tap Into Human Power

What you can do: Tap into human power by performing small tasks by hand instead of with electricity; start an exercise program that will get you around without a car.

Old Grid Can't Handle Renewable Energy

What you can do: Conserve electricity and use energy-efficient appliances, but also support efforts to retire aging coal plants and rethink the national energy grid.

Will Baseball's Greenest Team Win the World Series?

What you can do: Take inspiration from the green initiatives of Major League Baseball. Call your electric company and schedule an energy audit, use organic fertilizing methods on your lawn.

5 Things Al Gore's New Book Can Teach You about Global Warming

What you can do: The small things really do add up, so make efforts to protect wildlife, stop energy waste, and combat the skeptics, all without leaving your house.