Nigerian fashion goes 'green'

Designers and models at Nigeria Fashion Week in Lagos raise awareness for the environment.

Carbon Diet

Let's lose some pounds—pounds of carbon dioxide. You'll save cash, too.

Go Green Gourmet

Save energy making meals and goodies!  Con Ed engineer Aisha shows how you can use your stove and oven more efficiently. 

How to recycle with your family

Recycling doesn't have to be a chore--it can be something the whole family can take part in. Recycle with your family with help from Gorgeously Green's Sophie Uliano and her daughter.

How To Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags

Help reduce waste and keep our environment clean by making an effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastic grocery bags, keeping them out of the landfills.

Eco-warriors bring organic art to city

Moscow is trying to go green with the help of art. Heavy smog and over 5.5 million tons of unrecycled trash a year have left some people looking for a way to make the city more eco-friendly.  After last year's smoke-filled summer, it seems that more people are ready to listen now.

How to recycle rain water for use at home

Looking for ways to cut down on your water usage? Homeowners Steve and Linda Parker have installed a rainwater catchment system that allows them to collect rainwater to recycle in their California home. Since installing the system they've collected about 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of water to re-use for their laundry and their toilets.

How to Save Money by Going Green

Join Green enthusiast, Jane Graves, and the founder of Practically Green, Susan Hunt Stevens, in this informative discussion on how going green can save you some serious green!  Here are some tips to help you save energy and save money.

This is recycling around the world with Melissa McGinnis!

Let's get to our tips and questions from our viewers and correspondents from all over the country. First off a trip to Florida and to visit with our friend Shiraz whi has a straight, single-stream tip for us.

Shiraz: Hey Melissa this is Shiraz reporting for GreenopolisTV, and today I will be giving you some tips and insights on recycling. If you like eating cereals, cookies, crackers, or you like drinking soda, then this material looks very familiar to you. This is actually called chipboard or paperboard. This material can be recycled. A lot of people mistake this for cardboard. It's actually a much lower grade of cardboard but it can be recycled. Now, of course check with your local recycling coordinator to see if it's acceptable in your municipal recycling program. Now if you have any questions then feel free to email them at myvideo @ greenopolis.com and Melissa back to you.

Melissa: Thanks Shiraz. Now we'll go to New York to introduce you to our new correspondents, Tristin and Tyler. I hear they have some crafty recycling tips for us today.

Tyler: Thanks Melissa. I'm Tyler.
Tristin: And I'm Tristin.
Both: And we're reporting for GreenopolisTV
Tristin: We're going to show you how we've reused paper and cardboard in our craft.
Tyler: Check this out. We cut the cereal box and made a picture frame. Then we put a picture of our cousin inside. How cool is that?
Tristin: Check this out. We've turned toilet paper roll into a toilet paper cat. Now that's recycling. You're watching GreenopolisTV. Goodbye from New York City.
Both: Bye Bye... See you later.

Melissa: Could they be any more adorable? Now let's head over to Los Angeles to meet Grainne Fyke, the current founder and president of her environmental awareness club on campus. She's currently working on several resource conservation and recycling initiatives on campus. Let's see what Grain is up to.

Grainne: Hi my name is Grainne Fyke and I'm reporting for GreenopolisTV. I'm from Central Los Angeles highschool number 9, and I'm also the founder of the environmental awareness club. And right now we're trying to replace the Styrofoam lunch trays in our cafeteria for a more environmentally friendly option that we can use. And we're looking at a bunch of different things. We have these trays that are plant-based and they're biodegradable and so these will be a lot better because the Styrofoam trays go to the landfills and can't be recycled or anything. We have these and we also have, there's a company called Greenworks, and they do recycled plastics, so we're looking at different things from there. And I just came across a program called Dream Machine Recycle rally and it's a program and it's a program where you can have a scan-it recycling program at your school so each time you recycle something, you get points for your school. And you can go on to their website, and you can go on to their website and they have all the different schools that are competing so you can see how you're doing with, in terms of other schools. And it's a really great program and I hope that our school can do it, and the other schools can do it too. There are very cool prizes for the winning school and I'm really excited about getting this for our school. So if you want to visit the website, it's www.dreammachinerecyclerally.com and you can find out all about the program.

Melissa: Good luck on getting on that recycling rally program. I hear it's a lot of fun. Let's head over to Oklahoma city for this week's street beat!

Alright, all of you Dream Machine and Greenopolis kiosk users, look for us coming to a town near you. You'll never know when you're going to run into us. This week we ran into an adorable girl and father recycling duo. They come to this resource once a week to recycle as many bottles as they capture, because they both are working on getting a lot of points at their Greenopolis.com account for the coupon Baha Jacks. Apparently, they both love eating at that restaurant.

New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

San Francisco based, Climate Earth has developed new software technology that measures and analyzes the carbon impact inside the supply chain, from the production of a carton of orange juice to the construction of a giant skyscraper. SmartPlanet talks to commercial builders, Webcor, about how they're using the technology to get a more detailed account of their carbon footprint during the construction process.

Seed Exchange

I came across Seed Savers Exchange at the Green Festival, they are perfect for anyone who has a garden or is thinking of having one. Here you can either exchange seeds that you have too many of or, if you don't have any to exchange, you can buy seeds from others! What a great idea. They started this non-profit organization about 35 years ago in order to help farmers grow and save seeds, so they started a group of people who would grow each others seeds as a back up system. The organization grew so much that they got into a point where they needed to keep the seeds in one place, so they started a seed bank and began releasing a catalog to support the seed exchange. Today they have over 13,000 members across the country and every year they release a new catalog with a listing of all varieties their members want to share with people. You can also find the list and buy seeds on their website.

They have several kinds of seeds in their catalog, including vegetables, herbs and flowers.

I also came across a very cool program they launched called "Sell seeds instead of candy bars!". Here's a quick intro to it: Seed Savers has developed a new fundraising program as a healthy, sustainable alternative to other school fundraising programs. Benefit your school, your students, and the gardening public. Give children seeds to sell and they will grow, too, in the process. Seeds to Grow is a project of Seed Savers Exchange that promotes heirloom gardening.

A little story about them, from their site:
Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds of our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations.

Our mission is to save North America's diverse, but endangered, garden heritage for future generations by building a network of people committed to collecting, conserving and sharing heirloom seeds and plants, while educating people about the value of genetic and cultural diversity.

At the heart of Seed Savers Exchange are the dedicated members who have distributed hundreds of thousands of heirloom and open pollinated garden seeds since our founding 35 years ago. Those seeds now are widely used by seed companies, small farmers supplying local and regional markets, chefs and home gardeners and cooks, alike.

Seed Savers Exchange was founded in 1975 by Diane Ott Whealy and Kent Whealy to honor this tradition of preserving and sharing. Their collection started when Diane's terminally-ill grandfather gave them the seeds of two garden plants, Grandpa Ott's morning glory and German Pink tomato. Grandpa Ott's parents brought the seeds from Bavaria when they immigrated to St. Lucas, Iowa in the 1870s.

Today, the 890-acre Heritage Farm, near Decorah, Iowa, is our home. We maintain many thousands of heirloom garden varieties, most having been brought to North America by members' ancestors who emigrated from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and other parts of the world.

Unlike Fort Knox, Heritage Farm is not surrounded by security fences and guards. Our perimeter is patrolled by bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, deer, raccoons and other wildlife. The farm is ringed by hiking trails that take visitors through majestic scenery, past our certified organic preservation gardens, historic orchard and ancient White Park Cattle.

They even give tours of their farm. Way to go Seed Savers Exchange!

Construction of solar power installations

Israel's government cabinet has approved a plan that is designed to speed and
simplify processes for construction of solar power installations.

The goal of the plan is to generate electricity from renewable energy sources in order to
account for 10% of the state of Israel's electricity needs by 2020.

The plan provide guidelines for building photovoltaic facilities in the country, with
specific focus on roof-top installations aiming to resist impairments to Israel's panoramic
environment.