With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd we are more aware than ever of the things we can do to make a positive change in our lives and for this earth we share. Some companies have come up with incentives to help us make better choices.
Hamadi Beauty will donate 5 of their proceeds for the month of April towards NRDC and give each customer who spends $75 or more a free 2oz. Hair Wash.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California electricity and natural gas customers will be charged $600 million over the next 10 years to fund a green think tank, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted on Thursday.

A surcharge to monthly power and gas bills will fund the California Institute for Climate Solutions, linked to the University of California. The surcharge will be tacked on customer bills of investor-owned utilities and not of municipal utilities in Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Science should go 'glocal', integrating global with local knowledge, if it is to reach diverse ethnic communities, says Julia Tagüeña.

The word 'glocal' — a combination of global and local — has long appealed to me. Perhaps it is because, at a UK university, I and fellow Latin American students used Portuñol, a combination of Português (Portuguese) and Español (Spanish), to understand each other.

Breakthrough research sponsored by the National Science Foundation into the development of green gasoline, green diesel and green jet fuel based on the conversion of biomass from feedstock such as switchgrass, fast-growing poplar trees, corn stalks, wood waste and residues and other non-food plant sources is bearing fruit.

Imagine creating a mouse's heart by printing it out on an ink-jet printer. Using a spray to regenerate skin cells on burn victims. Growing a bladder in a petri dish. Or what about a special powder that could regrow an amputated finger, or even an arm or leg?

This incredible medical technology may sound like the sort of thing you'd see on one of Zach Braff's Scrubs fantasies, but to our surprise, these cutting-edge procedures are completely real — CBS says so.