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The Greening of America; With Windmills, Low-Energy Homes, New Forms Of Recycling And Fuel-Efficient Cars, Americans Are Taking Conservation Into Their Own Hands.(Cover story)

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Byline: Jerry Adler (With Jessica Ramirez, Karen Springen, Brad Stone, Karen Breslau, Keith Naughton, Jamie Reno, Ken Shulman, Matthew Philips, Staci Semrad, Margaret Nelson, A. Christian Jean, Andrew Murr and Jac Chebatoris)

One morning recently ... 29 years after president Jimmy Carter declared energy conservation so important it was "the moral equivalent of war ... " 37 years after the first reference to the "greenhouse effect" in The New York Times ... one day after oil prices hit a peak of more than $75 per barrel ... Kelley Howell, a 38-year-old Florida architect, got on her bicycle a little after 5 a.m. and rode 7.9 miles past shopping centers, housing ...

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