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Retailers offer discounts for eco-friendly practices, but savings can be slim.
Posted by Karen Datko on Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:10 PM
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site Smart Money.

Companies are increasingly willing to offer consumers discounts for green behaviors such as recycling electronics and receiving statements electronically. But while the behaviors can have an environmental impact, the savings for consumers are usually nominal.

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A rocket carrying the Ikaros -- an acronym for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun -- will blast off from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan on May 18.

"Ikaros is a 'space yacht' that gets propulsion from the pressure of sunlight particles bouncing off its sail," Yuichi Tsuda, space systems expert at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency… Continue

By Coupon Sherpa, couponsherpa.com McClatchy-Tribune

The first
Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, when being earth friendly meant
wearing earth shoes and eating brown bread. Granted, Americans were
focused on other things, like the Kent State shootings, Apollo 13, the
invention of fiber optics and the Beatles' last album.

Forty
years later, the Pope is promoting environmentalism as a pathway to
peace. Words like "biodegradable," "ecosphere" and "ozone" have entered
our common le… Continue

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