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During the post-holiday season, recycling experts remind Utahns to take a few extra minutes to separate their live Christmas trees from the rest of the holiday trash and recycle them. Roy Peterman, grounds director for Brigham Young University and former president of the Recycling Coalition of Utah, said those dried-up symbols of Christmas cheer can be ground up and turned into compost for trees, shrubs, planter boxes, gardens and flower beds. Most cities have recycling programs that can properly dispose of Christmas trees, said Rusty Lundberg, a manager at the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste. But Debra Yazzie, recycling coordinator for Salt Lake County, advises Utahns to make sure all the lights and tinsel are off their trees before they send them off for the wood chipper. The compost from used Christmas trees can be used to make a rich material that locks in more moisture at a plant’s base, Peterman said. Jason Olson, Deseret Morning News Monty Georgi tosses a Christmas tree into a Dumpster placed at Windsor Park in Orem by the city so that it can be turned into mulch. read more

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Were it not for this effect, Earth would be a frozen wasteland like other planets. If Israel alone produced greenhouse gases, the effect on the climate here would be only marginally greater than the effect on the world climate. A nation that already produces less per capita than comparable countries shouldn’t be penalized for its prudence by having to make large reductions, while a nation with large output is rewarded for its prodigality by having a substantial quota left even after a 25% reduction. Israel produces a small amount of greenhouse gas because it is a small country, but according to post-Bali news reports our output on a per-capita basis is large and growing. However, our contribution to the problem and our expected benefit from any arrangement are such that it seems fair and appropriate for us to take part in some kind of equitable scheme for reducing greenhouse gases and hopefully slowing global warming. read more

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He supports doubling enrollment in Head Start and quadrupling enrollment in Early Head Start and provide $5 billion in grants to states to expand public pre-school programs. He would expand eligibility for government-run health insurance for kids and allow all families to buy into the state Children’s Health Insurance Program with sliding scale premiums and co-payments. He would allow uninsured adults to buy into an insurance program that mirrors the federal employee benefits program and allow small businesses to participate to extend coverage to their employees. He pledges to expand personal retirement saving by expanding savers’ tax credit and to invest $500 in a “Kids Account” for every child born after Dec. read more

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They’re dreaming of a green Christmas — with every card they don’t write and every gift they don’t wrap. Last year, she gave her married son a homemade coupon for locally raised organic beef and chicken; the year before, it was a basket of organic non-perishable foods. She re-uses homemade gift bows from year to year and packs goodies in reusable baskets. Wash dishes and silverware — coated paper plates and plastic servingware can’t be recycled. Recyclers get their biggest winter boon from the last week of December and the first two weeks of January — but it’s also when they get the highest volume of unwanted trash in curbside recycling bins. read more

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Last week’s United Nations climate change negotiations in Bali ended with a whimper, not a bang, an “agreement” to postpone negotiations until 2009, when the United States will have a new president, one presumably more committed to action than President Bush. The truth is that those developed nations that actually ratified Kyoto - including those countries whose diplomats booed the United States - saw their greenhouse-gas emissions go up, not down, by 4 percent from 2000 to 2004. Instead of making clean energy relatively cheaper, a new, post-Kyoto agreement should instead focus on making clean energy absolutely cheaper. The United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan should create a 10-year, $1 trillion energy fund to invest in a range of technologies, many of which (like solar) would be manufactured in China. Together, this new clean energy bloc could drive the commercialization of cheap clean energy technologies throughout the global economy. read more

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There was an air of anticipation as Jordanian cinema reaches another milestone, at the Dubai Film Festival 2007, with two feature films, one fiction and the other a documentary, poised to tour the film festival circuit after a decade of vacuum in the category of feature films. While the limelight focused on the much anticipated Jordanian feature fiction film, hailed by official Jordanian sources as “Jordan’s first feature film in 30 years,” independent Jordanian cinema history was being made at another screening room at the festival. Mahmoud Massad is a Jordanian filmmaker born in the city of Zarqa (hence the Zarqawi term of endearment), one of Jordan’s most economically depressed and overpopulated cities, a hotbed for leftist and Islamist opposition movements and the birthplace of Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi, blamed for scores of attacks on US troops in Iraq, until his assassination in 2006. The protagonist in Massad’s film is called Abu Ammar, a man who did a tour of duty in Afghanistan when the Jihad business was hip and cool in the US and the enemy was the USSR and when pro-US Arab governments facilitated the recruitment and exploitation of young Arabs. read more

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Sir, Lord Leach of Fairford’s letter (“ The false certainties of climate change theory ”, Dec 20) espouses a bizarre mixture of half-truths and misinformation. Far from being a new idea, the concept of greenhouse gases was described by Fourier in 1824 and the role of carbon dioxide and other compound gases in trapping the Sun’s radiation by Tyndall in 1860. No amount of special pleading by those whose livelihood depends on ever-increasing use of the Earth’s unrenewable resources can alter the facts that greenhouse gases are rising and that the effect of such a rise is to trap more of the Sun’s radiation in our planet. Contact our advertising team for advertising and sponsorship in Times Online, The Times and The Sunday Times. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from Times Online, The Times or The Sunday Times, click here . News International Limited, 1 Virginia St, London E98 1XY, is the holding company for the News International group and is registered in England No 81701. read more

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