Where Green Street and Easy Street meet Let these suburbanites show the way to helping the environment.(News)

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Byline: Lauren Heist Beep Staff Writer These days, saving the environment and stopping global warming is cool. Leonardo DiCaprio is making speeches about climate change. Orlando Bloom is building an environmentally friendly house. Al Gore, the biggest rock star on the green scene, is organizing a massive concert that will play on all seven continents to raise awareness about our dying planet.

"OK, OK, I want to make a difference, too!" you say. "But how?" Here are some people from the suburbs doing more than just talking about saving our environment; they're living it. Jeremy Slate, 25, of Arlington Heights now living in Chicago: Jeremy Slate, a volunteer for the Illinois Solar Energy Association and a former intern at Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance,...