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  Black Friday Comes Early

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Sun Nov 8, 2009 4:08 PM ET

  but as I strolled through the outdoor mall this weekend, it seems retailers had no qualms about dusting displays with fake snow, pumping out John Denver’s Christmas album or breaking out the pumpkin spice lattes for these unforgiving California winters. I also noticed they’re alread Read More

  More like this in: Wal-Mart, California, Halloween, Christmas, Amazon, Walmart, CNET, Black Friday, Holiday Shopping
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  America's Nicest Criminal

  By Sarah Parsons | Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:36 PM ET

  engages in another kind of criminal activity: Planting trees on homeowners' lawns in the middle of the night.The Tree Fairy, who only spoke to the Denver news station under the condition of anonymity, says he started the plantings about two years ago after he bought a lot of trees on sale Read More

  More like this in: ABC, Trees, Planting Trees, US, Social Responsibility, Regional/Local, Kindness, Giving, Home & Garden
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  Hotel Stays for Service

  By David Jenison | Tue Sep 1, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  include the Sheraton in Tucson and Tempe in Arizona, the Courtyard in Monrovia and San Diego in California, The Hilton Garden Inn and JW Marriott in Denver, Sheraton Chicago NW, the Fairfield Inn Las Vegas and dozens more. There are also several more hotels, like the Courtyard Los Angeles an Read More

  More like this in: California, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vacation, San Diego, Arizona, Las Vegas, Tempe
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  Rock the Earth Wants Your Cell

  By David Jenison | Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  & Arts Festival? If so, now is the perfect time to recycle that old cell phone of yours.Rock the Earth, an environmental organization out of Denver, will be on hand at the San Francisco music fest to run a cell phone recycling program in partnership with Musictoday, Collective Good an Read More

  More like this in: Dave Matthews, San Francisco, Recycling, Black Eyed Peas, Dave Matthews Band, Beck, Pearl Jam
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  Belly Flopping Toward History

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:15 PM ET

  each man dove in as the crowd cringed.According to WISH-TV, a  panel of judges rated each dive and the winner, Eric Devereaux from the Denver West Metro Fire Department, won a five-day trip for two to the Riviera Maya in Mexico.The contest got us thinking about some other massiv Read More

  More like this in: Google, Japan, Mexico, US
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  Cash for Trash

  By Lisa Germinsky | Thu Aug 6, 2009 11:47 AM ET

  Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Especially when the alternative points to nothing more than raising taxes. Photo by Aldrin Muya, courtes Read More

  More like this in: Recycle, Sustainability, Compost, Taxes, US, Business, Economy
• Volunteering for a Vacation

  By Ben Corbett | Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:47 PM ET

  covering 22 states. Participating properties stretch across the US and range from Pittsburgh's Renaissance Hotel to the Curtis and Oxford hotels of Denver to the Courtyard Los Angeles. While there are some restrictions, the offer lasts between July 1 and December 20, 2009. Participants mus Read More

  More like this in: Charity, Los Angeles, Habitat for Humanity, Pittsburgh, The Humane Society, Humane Society, Business, Good Ideas
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  Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Thu Jul 2, 2009 8:49 PM ET

  legalization movement gained momentum after a 2007 study determined that an eye-popping 97 percent of rainwater that fell in Douglas County, near Denver, never got anywhere near a stream, thus making it mostly unusable. Rain catchers also argue that it makes environmental and economic sense t Read More

  More like this in: New York, The New York Times, Water, Mexico, Colorado, New Mexico, US, Politics & Policy
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  Rocky Mountain (Food) Drive

  By Rachel Felder | Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:09 AM ET

  off clothes or other donations.) This Saturday, the food --112 tons worth -- will be donated to Volunteers of America's City Harvest Food Bank in Denver. The food (some of which is pictured, packed for distribution) will be donated to 75 local shelters and food banks, all for free.And i Read More

  More like this in: Volunteerism, fundraising, Colorado, Food Banks, Thrift Stores, Travel, Destinations, Leisure Travel
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  Get Your Earth Day On

  By | Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  but other concerts with great acts are happening all over the country this weekend in cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and New York. Go out and rock it for Earth Day. You don't have to attend a huge concert in a big city t Read More

  More like this in: New York, California, San Francisco, Recycling, Schools, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Earth Day, San Diego