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Recycling waste and solid materials around our homes and business is a very good way to save energy and land-fill space. The things we recycle are re-purposed into new products and materials such as glass, plastics, paper pruducts and even metal. If you live in Michigan you can find the nearest recycling center by clicking visiting this <link>.	If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars. Find out more about CFBs and watch a short video by visiting this <link>
Green servicesImproving energy efficiency with ENERGY STAR is also an important first step in the growing trend of “green remodeling.” That’s because the energy we use in our homes often comes from the burning of fossil fuels at power plants, which contributes to smog, acid rain, and global warming. So, the less energy we use in our homes, the less air pollution we generate. To learn more about ways to make your home more efficient, visit this <link>	A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.You can calculate your carbon footprint by following this<link>and then discover ways to offset your emissions and do your part to make the planet a safer, better place.
The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth encourages increased production and use of energy derived from Michigan’s biomass resources through program policies, public and private partnerships, information dissemination, and state project grants. If you would like to become involved, or to learn more, please follow this <link>.	The Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP), sponsored by a coalition of public interest nonprofit groups, government agencies, and other organizations in the energy efficiency field, is designed to give consumers information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies. Follow this<link> to find out more.