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A look inside David Steiner’s waste-to-gold alchemy
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20.5.2013 |
Business Operations | GreenBiz.com |
| Five years ago, Waste Management's CEO painted a portrait of a company mining landfills for materials, energy, and fuels. How's it going?   |
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Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
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20.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp. The "California Hydrogen Highway," Schwarzenegger's vision to ensure that every Californian would have access to a hydrogen fueling station by the end of 2010, called for the state to spend more than $50 million to help deploy up to 100 hydrogen fuel stations that would serve 2,000 fuel cell vehicles. ... ... |
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Camp Lejeune Coming Clean After Nearly 30 Years
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming... |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, "NON-POTABLE WATER." |
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Michael Brune: The Overview Effect
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Few of us will ever venture past the 60-mile boundary that separates Earth and outer space. If you do, though, you're likely to experience something known as "the overview effect" -- a cognitive shift in how you perceive our planet. |
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Subway System Being Prepared For Next Big Storm
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| NEW YORK (AP) — Removable panels and inflatable plugs are among the ideas New York City's transit officials are considering to stop the next big... |
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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 3: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Despite the fact that ExxonMobil is still a significant contrarian funder, the flurry of media interest in the company's funding agenda sparked by UCS's exposé died down soon after its release and remains feeble to this day. What happened? |
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Senate Confirms Ernest Moniz As Energy Secretary
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as U.S. secretary of energy. The vote was 97-0. Moniz, a professor... |
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David_Goldstein: A Daughter's Tears: The President's Speech
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| China has recently overtaken the United States as the world's highest carbon emitter. Of course, for any solution to be effective, not only the United States, not only China, but the entire world must get on board. |
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Michael Marx: Tar Sands and Soda? Launching the Future Fleet Campaign
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| The Sierra Club is joining and expanding this successful effort to convince even more companies to get on board and go even further to reduce their oil consumption altogether. To date, the climate movement has largely given large corporate oil consumers a free pass. Those days are over. |
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Tomorrow Is Bike To Work Day!
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| From Mother Nature Network's Chris Baskind: There's never been a better time to consider walking, public transportation — or the greenest, most efficient form of... |
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Ron Seftel: The Next Big Thing in Green Power: Community Ownership
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Any socially transformative movement gets to a point where it needs to be fully embraced by the people it impacts. The green power movement within Canada is at just such a point. The past decade has seen an increase in the number of options available to Canadians to support renewable energy -- often associated with a premium cost to the consumer. |
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Scottish Islands could help UK achieve renewable energy targets
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16.5.2013 |
Environmental News Network |
The Scottish Islands could make a significant contribution to the UK's 2020 renewable energy targets, according to a joint report by the UK and Scottish Governments. The research considers the evidence base for developing renewables projects on the Scottish Islands. And the Scottish Islands Renewables Project report shows that while there are significant potential benefits to developing renewables on the Scottish Islands, there are also considerable costs that need to be overcome. |
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Cambodian Deforestation Fueled By Chinese Demand
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15.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| On April 26, 2012, Cambodian environmentalist Chut Wutty was killed during an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s arcane Cardamom Mountains.... |
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Salt Lake Chamber recognized for clean-energy initiatives
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15.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 14, 2013 07:10PM MDT
Salt Lake City residents know that during a bad day in January the muck in the air can be so bad, it’s almost like you can’t breathe. So, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce put a plan into action that recognizes area businesses that help clean up the putrid smog. The chamber was recognized as one of 10 in the U.S. by the Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy for creating initiatives that help drive business development. The list of chambers are profiled in a new report, Local Chambers as Chang... ... |
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Pipelines Or Rail? Guess Which One Is Way Worse
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14.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Bad news for Enbridge, TransCanada and all the other companies working to build controversial pipelines across North America: Pipelines spill three times as much oil... |
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Food, Farms, Forests, and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
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14.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Ronnie Cummins
Zack Kaldveer
If ever there was a time for activist networks and the body politic to cooperate and unite forces, it's now. Global warming, driven in large part by the reckless business-as-usual practices of multi-billion-dollar fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations, has brought us to the brink of a global calamity. read more |
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B.C. election: Vote 'yes' to green jobs and 'no' to Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines
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14.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Monday, May 13, 2013
We need people like George Heyman, the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club of BC, to get elected.
Last week Van Jones , the founder of the green jobs advocacy group Green for All , was arrested at a rally organized to protest against a major American coal company.
What's interesting about this is not just that Van Jones is a CNN correspondent and a former senior staffer for the Obama administration, sometimes called their "green jobs czar." No, what was really interesting is that he was standing shoulder to shoulder with the coal miners fighting to defend their pensions from a hugely wealthy coal company.
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