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Find out how to get up to a $1000 Grant for your EcoProject!

MyEcoProject is committed to public awareness surrounding issues that affect the environment. We meet our objective through others whose projects posted at our website support environmental education that enhance the public’s awareness, knowledge, and skills…

Learn More About Conserving Water

Why We Need to Conserve Water: water is our most primary natural resource. Yet, in some places, we are beginning to run out of water. Underground reserves that farmers could once reach only a few feet deep are now so low that a hole drilled half a mile down cannot find water…

Ways We Can Conserve Water: although the 70% of planet earth is water, only 3% of it can be used as drinking water. Most of us don’t consider water a scarce resource, but fresh water is becoming scarce, and in many parts of the world people have to walk miles to get it. There are simple actions we can take to conserve and to save money…

What are Watersheds (coming soon)

Water Conservation Facts: recent facts and figures about water as a precious resource and why we need to conserve…

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EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps

EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps ordered by data value. The rankings cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants, as follows:
Total Energy Production
Crude Oil Production
Natural Gas Marketed Production
Coal Production
Total Net Electricity Generation
Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Electric Power Producers
Total Energy [...]

Experts Look For Ways to Save Lake Chad

The Food and Agriculture Organization held a special event Friday to raise awareness and mobilize funds to save Lake Chad, which was once one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes…

U.S. EPA to spend more than $50 Million to address DDT, PCBs off Southern California Coast

Agency selects cleanup remedy for Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected a cleanup strategy for the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund Site, where a large area on the ocean floor off the Palos Verdes peninsula is contaminated with DDT and PCBs.
The site, off the coast of Los Angeles , stretches from [...]

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Utility Solar Assessment Study (pdf)

American utilities can reach 10% solar by 2025 (June 2008)

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