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Nevada's First Green Convenience Store

Nevada's first full-sized alternative fuel station and LEED-certified convenience store opened in Minden Tuesday. With solar panels and skylights, bamboo shelving and biofuels, the idea was to take a Whole Foods market, and shrink it down to the size of a 7-Eleven."

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Apple Plans Nevada Solar Farm in Clean Energy Push

Apple Inc said it plans to build a new solar farm with NV Energy Inc for power supply to its new data center in Reno, Nevada, a major step towards its goal of using renewable energy to power its data centers, which use huge amounts of electricity. (READ the story from Reuters)

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100 Milwaukee Area Salons to Hold Fundraiser for Spa Shooting Victims

Nearly 100 Milwaukee area salons and spas are expected to participate in a fundraising effort Tuesday to support victims of a shooting last month at Azana Spa & Salon in Brookfield, and to help raise awareness of domestic abuse.

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First Ethanol-Capable Pump to Open in Miami

The first E85 ethanol station opened in Miami as an alternative to gasoline and a way to fuel the 11,000 ethanol-capable (Flex-Fuel) vehicles in the region. (Video)

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Dogs to Sniff Out DVD Piracy in Malaysia

In response to pressure from the US movie industry which loses 6 billion dollars per year from pirated sales of DVDs, Malaysia has launched a squad of DVD-sniffing dogs to help root out large caches of illegal disks.

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L.A. Plans World's Biggest Solar Farm in California Desert

An old battleground of California's water wars could turn into one of the largest solar farms in the world, with thousands of shiny black and blue panels mounted across the desiccated, salty white crust of Owens Lake.

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Google Surprises LA Teachers By Funding All Classroom Requests On DonorsChoose.org

Google has fully funded the classroom requests of every Los Angeles Unified School District teacher on the education crowd-funding site DonorsChoose.org. As a result of Google's nearly $1 million donation, 769 Los Angeles teachers will receive materials for their 75,108 students -- ranging from paper, pencils and books to laptops, musical instruments and microscopes.

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Solar Project Will Power 85,850 Homes for Los Angeles

The largest U.S. producer of crystalline solar power energy Wednesday announced plans to build a massive system to provide solar energy to tens of thousands of Los Angeles homes.