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Congratulations to the Green Effect winners! Online voters and a panel of judges have chosen these five entries as the best Earth-saving ideas. Each winner will receive $20,000 to put their idea into action, plus other great prizes. See these extraordinary submissions—and be inspired to create your own Green Effect.

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Re-tree Colorado

Submitted by: tfrolich

Steamboat Springs, CO

The Mountain Bark Beetle has killed over 1.5 million acres of Lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and is continuing in a rapid pace. While at a small scale this is a natural process it has been made into a disaster ...

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