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Lowering your electric bill with "The Green Switch"

(WKTV/NBC) - Even after you throw the switch on many of your appliances, they're still using electricity.

Sculpture symbolizes efforts to go green in Downtown Utica

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - An effort to beautify downtown Utica began Thursday afternoon. A piece of artwork created by Mohawk Valley Community College students was put on display in plain sight for those traveling through Genesee Street.

Oriskany business awarded for efforts in energy efficiency

ORISKANY, N.Y. (WKTV) - A local business is awarded for going green before it was the "in thing" to do.

Green effort in Ava will turn gas into electricity

AVA, N.Y. (WKTV) -Three years after opening a landfill in Ava, the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority has announced plans to convert something everyone generates - waste - into something everyone uses - electricity.

Tour of Fiberdyne Labs boasts new products

FRANKFORT, N.Y. (WKTV) - The going green pattern continues in Frankfort at Fiberdyne Labs.

Going Green at the Oneida County Office Building

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Flowers were planted Monday along the grounds of the Oneida County Office Building, as The Utica Green Corps and Cornell Cooperative Extension team up for a new "going green" initiative.

Switchgrass to be used as energy and as food

VERONA, N.Y. (WKTV) - VVS and Cornell University are teaming up again to go green. Cornell used willow trees to create bio-energy at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School earlier this year, and on Wednesday they were planting switch grass.

Bike to Work Day goes green while saving green

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (WKTV) - Otsego County wants you to think of alternative ways to get to work - that's why Wednesday is Bike to Work Day!

New Hartford receives national recognition for being a Tree City USA

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - The Village of New Hartford received national recognition Tuesday as being a Tree City USA for the past 27 years.

Grants to area organizations hope to improve public recycling

(WKTV) - 80 collection bins are headed to the Mohawk Valley to help improve public recycling. Oneida County Sports Authority, Boonville-Oneida County Fair, Boilermaker Road Race Committee, and the Herkimer County Fair are all recipients of the bins.