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Why Brazil was burning
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20.6.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Frida Ghitis says in this era of connectivity, a little complaint can erupt into massive demonstrations. |
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[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Wave]
[flenvcenter :: Spirituality]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
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6 million tons of Moab tailings removed, 10 million to go
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19.6.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune
Published Jun 19, 2013 09:16AM MDT
About 6 million tons of uranium-processing waste has been removed from the banks of the Colorado River near Moab so far. The U.S. Energy Department reported Tuesday that another 10 million tons remains to be loaded onto railcars and buried in a specialized landfill 30 miles north at Crescent Junction. “The federal budget continues to be stretched thin,” said Federal Project Director Don Metzler, “and I am proud this project has used its limited funding wisely and is almost 38 percent complete.” ... ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Colorado River]
[irge304 :: Landfills]
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[dharmesh :: Landfills]
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Bright news for fluoro-light recycling
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19.6.2013 |
Planet Ark News |
| Some major Victorian organisations have been recognised for their participation in the fluorescent light recycling program FluoroCycle, which ensures harmful mercury is kept out of the environment. Find out more... |
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[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[flenvcenter :: Disposal]
[flenvcenter :: Re-use]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
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[flenvcenter :: Campus]
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Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities
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18.6.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| SAO PAULO (AP) — More than 100,000 people took to the streets in overwhelmingly peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and transportation. ... |
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A National Model for Sustainable Food Waste Disposal Is Being Created Where? Right Here in New York City
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18.6.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY:
The New York Times is giving front page coverage today to the latest plans by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for advancing composting and environmentally sound waste measures for disposing of food scraps collected in the nation’s largest city. And... |
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[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
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Colorado wildfire: Homicide investigation slows letting people go home
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17.6.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Local News |
| BLACK FOREST -- Containment on the Black Forest fire could take until Thursday, and hundreds of evacuees will have to wait, fire managers said Sunday. |
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Bloomberg plans to get New Yorkers composting
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17.6.2013 |
TreeHugger |
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to announce a new composting plan that aims to divert 100,000 tons of food scraps from landfills each year and become mandatory city-wide by 2016. |
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[flenvcenter :: Disposal]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
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Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste
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17.6.2013 |
NYT: Home Page |
| Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste |
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[chintan :: Landfills]
[chintan :: Recycling]
[sattva_1 :: health]
[sattva_1 :: waste]
[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[irge304 :: Solid Waste]
[irge304 :: Composting]
[irge304 :: Landfills]
[irge304 :: Recycling]
[dharmesh :: Solid Waste]
[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
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Green diary rescue: Wolves under the gun, eyeballing damselflies & mapping the polar cyclone
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16.6.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 230 of these spotlighting more than 12,964 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 50 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Green Diary of the Week
Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" —by Agathena : "The original mission was wolf recovery begun in 1994 because of expiration (local extinction) of the grey wolf in many areas. Recovery goals of an equitably distributed wolf population containing at least 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs in 3 recovery areas within Montana (MT), Idaho (ID), and Wyoming (WY) for at least 3 consecutive years were ... |
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[newstrust :: Species Loss]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Wildlife Protection]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[newstrust :: Hazardous Waste]
[newstrust :: Education Reform]
[newstrust :: Higher Education]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[newstrust :: Health]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Jobs]
[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Emissions]
[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
[newstrust :: United Nations on Climate]
[newstrust :: Generic]
[newstrust :: Storm]
[newstrust :: Forest]
[newstrust :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Floods n Droughts]
[newstrust :: Ecosystems]
[newstrust :: Species]
[newstrust :: Disease]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
[newstrust :: Education]
[newstrust :: Health]
[demo :: Hydel]
[demo :: Coal]
[demo :: Oil and Gas]
[demo :: Nuclear]
[demo :: Solar]
[dharmesh :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Rail]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Mining]
[flenvcenter :: Fire]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[chintan :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Industrial Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Gleaning]
[flenvcenter :: Gardens]
[flenvcenter :: Famine]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Global Food System]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Reduce]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[sattva_1 :: disaster]
[sattva_1 :: air]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[flenvcenter :: Art and Literature]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Media]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Generic]
[demo :: Storm]
[demo :: Forest]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[demo :: Floods n Droughts]
[demo :: Ecosystems]
[demo :: Species]
[demo :: Disease]
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[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Science]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
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[sattva_1 :: science]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
[sattva_1 :: agriculture]
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[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[flenvcenter :: Fish]
[flenvcenter :: Species Loss]
[flenvcenter :: Species Conservation]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Green Jobs]
[flenvcenter :: Ecological Economics]
[flenvcenter :: Green Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Diversity]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Medicine]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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U.S. EPA tells Minnesota to do a better job of preventing water pollution
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14.6.2013 |
Star Tribune: Latest |
| Wastewater permits need to be more stringent, EPA says. |
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Homestead High students 'bin it' when it comes to e-waste
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13.6.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley |
| Students at Homestead High School spent the last half of their school year trying to gather up e-waste in hopes of diverting electronic items and potentially harmful toxins away from landfills. |
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[chintan :: Landfills]
[chintan :: Recycling]
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This Is Your Town on Fracking
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13.6.2013 |
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC |
| By Elizabeth Royte
Not long ago I found myself stranded in Williston, North Dakota. You might have heard of it. Despite being the eighth-largest city in the 48 th most-populous state, Williston has won some infamy in recent years. Its at the center of an oil boom that’s likely to make the United States a net exporter of fossil fuels in just a few short years, something that was unthinkable as recently as half a decade ago. North Dakota now produces more oil than any state except Texas, thanks to technical advances that let drillers hydraulically fracture (or frack) the Bakken shale formation two miles beneath the region’s surface.
The boom has introduced tens of thousands of newcomers to the area around Williston, jammed the dirt and gravel roads with heavy trucks, littered those byways with windshield-shattering debris, and clouded the air with dust. (Which also chokes livestock , smothers crops , and complicates dinner preparation. “I have to wash my dishes after taking them from ... |
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Garbage burning emits significant amounts of toxic pollutants, particulates
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13.6.2013 |
MinnPost |
| Hennepin County is moving ahead with a plan to increase burning by 20 percent at the downtown Minneapolis incinerator.
Shawn Lawrence Otto's recent Community Voices commentary attacking "urban liberals and left leaning environmental groups" misrepresents basic scientific and political fact. His missive in support of garbage burning repeats 40-year-old discredited industry talking points, and paints an inaccurate picture of incineration opponents.
With regard to air pollutants, Otto claims that incinerators emit "near zero" air emissions. In fact, incinerators account for significant emissions of some of the most toxic air pollutants on the planet. Incinerators are a major emitter of fine particulates and add climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently identified 118 point sources of criteria pollutants in the city of Minneapolis. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines these pollutants as having significant ... |
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[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Incinerators]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[flenvcenter :: Air Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Air Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[chintan :: Toxics]
[chintan :: Composting]
[chintan :: Landfills]
[chintan :: Incinerators]
[chintan :: Recycling]
[sattva_1 :: air]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[dharmesh :: Toxics]
[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
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[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
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Opinionator | Fixes: Out of India's Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity
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12.6.2013 |
NY Times: Editorials |
| Opinionator | Fixes: Out of India's Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity |
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[chintan :: Recycling]
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[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
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[dharmesh :: Solid Waste]
[dharmesh :: Composting]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[irge304 :: Solid Waste]
[irge304 :: Composting]
[irge304 :: Landfills]
[irge304 :: Recycling]
[newstrust :: Solid Waste]
[newstrust :: Composting]
[newstrust :: Landfills]
[newstrust :: Recycling]
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One Man's Trash is Another Man's Pay Dirt
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11.6.2013 |
Environmental News Network |
It is, unfortunately, society's nature to discard the unwanted or forgotten. This tendency is on display across the globe, from slums of mega-cities to undernourished children in rural villages to the ugly endangered creatures that never receive attention. Nowhere, however, is this tendency more apparent than in our trash. We accumulate so much unwanted stuff that each city-dweller throws away an average of 1.2 kilograms of municipal solid waste per day. An individual's trash puts all those unwanted items on display, whether it is an old love letter, a broken glass, or a half-eaten ham and cheese sandwich. |
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[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Reduce]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[flenvcenter :: Disposal]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Reduce]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
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Incinerators' incentives are to burn, not to recycle
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10.6.2013 |
MinnPost |
| In Shawn Lawrence Otto’s Community Voices commentary, “ Waste-to-energy technology is cleaner and safer than generally believed ,” he acknowledges "maximum recycling effort should be put in to remove all recycables and compostables before the remaining waste is disposed of in a landfill or a WTE facility." Agreed. However, when he states, "Evidence shows recycling and WTE are complementary," I ask: What evidence? I have yet to be presented an incinerator contract that includes "maximized" recycling, or any significant recycling other than the removal of "white goods."
If you read the contracts of the two companies that operate the 89 facilities in the U.S., you'll find incentives to burn in order to increase electricity production. Also, the service operator can receive additional payments (what I have termed "burning bonuses") if additional material is "processed," aka burned. Within the contracts there are no processes (nor incentives) to recover recyclable material.
Additionally, Frederick ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[sattva_1 :: science]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Incinerators]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[chintan :: Landfills]
[chintan :: Incinerators]
[chintan :: Recycling]
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Is Waste-Free Packaging On The Horizon?
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8.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Each year, we throw away over 70 million tons of packaging waste, which takes up a significant chunk of landfill space.... |
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[flenvcenter :: Disposal]
[flenvcenter :: Refugees]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
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Americans Throw Out 40 Percent of their Food, Which is Terrible for the Climate
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7.6.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Throwing away food contributes directly to climate change. Click here to read this article |
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[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Food Sovereignty]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
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Zero waste? Reduce, reuse, recycle
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6.6.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
Zero waste proponents can imagine a world in which nothing goes into a landfill or an incinerator, and all of our discarded materials become resources for others to use. Three experts discuss the trash ecosystem, at the Commonwealth Club of California. |
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[newstrust :: Landfills]
[newstrust :: Incinerators]
[newstrust :: Recycling]
[newstrust :: Reduce Reuse Recycle]
[sattva_1 :: business]
[irge304 :: Solid Waste]
[irge304 :: Landfills]
[irge304 :: Incinerators]
[irge304 :: Recycling]
[irge304 :: Reduce Reuse Recycle]
[flenvcenter :: Reduce]
[flenvcenter :: Re-use]
[flenvcenter :: Recycling and Composting]
[chintan :: Landfills]
[chintan :: Incinerators]
[chintan :: Recycling]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Incinerators]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[dharmesh :: Solid Waste]
[dharmesh :: Landfills]
[dharmesh :: Incinerators]
[dharmesh :: Recycling]
[dharmesh :: Reduce Reuse Recycle]
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Huge Petroleum Coke Pile Making Way Back to Canada
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6.6.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| Huge Petroleum Coke Pile Making Way Back to Canada |
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[flenvcenter :: Coal]
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