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CAMERON DIAZ is not alone in promoting environmentally friendly habits on TV.

>> HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David has viewers waving at Prius drivers, including himself.

>> With its hard-hitting stories about global warming, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart puts real news organizations to shame.

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HBO’s Six Feet Under televised the first green burial, for lead character Nate Fisher: no coffin,

no headstone, just a canvas tarp.

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BOTTLED WATER is

no longer in vogue with

recent studies about plastics

leaching from bottles into

water. What to do? Use a

stainless steel water bottle,

such as Klean Kanteen, to

tote filtered tap water.

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RECYCLEBANK, a pilot program

in Philadelphia, pays residents

recycling dollars for their recycla-

bles, which they can use to buy

groceries or Home Depot necessi-

ties. In nine months, the number

of Philadelphia households in

the program that recycle jumped

from 15 percent to 90 percent.

Talk about results. RecycleBank

plans to expand across the

United States.

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FROM THE HURRICANE devastation along the Gulf Coast rises hope for developing sustainable communities. Habitat for Humanity is a natural leader, as is Global Green USA, which has committed to building 10,000 green homes in the New Orleans area. Michael Berk, professor of architecture at Mississippi State University, has a ready-made solution: green mobile homes. The mobile homes are still in prototype mode but hold tremendous promise for supplying affordable, environmentally friendly housing in the future.