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by Joe Laur

Bottles and Cell Phones and Cans, Oh My! What Does Your Town Recycle?

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I love my little town. Wendell, MA, founded in 1781, home to about 900 souls, was named for a Boston judge. We’re only 90 minutes from Boston, and 3 hours from NYC, but the clocks all stopped here in 1968. Or so it seems. Our town motto: “Just a stone’s throw from reality.”


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by Joe Laur

The Circle Economy

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“… and go round and round and round in the circle game.” — Joni Mitchell



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by elink

Ten Stories You May Have Missed This Week

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Once again, it was another great week of stories on Greenopolis




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by Joe Laur

Let Buildings Rise Again and Again: Construction Waste as a Resource

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It saves money and energy to reuse materials and structures.

I’m the son of a builder who was the son of a builder. It’s kind of in my blood. When I want to relax, I build. I’ve built or help build my house, two cabins, a log sauna, a timber frame sugar house, a woodshed, and countless smaller buildings and improvements. I’ve got a smokehouse and barn in mind for the future. My mother in law says I have an “edifice complex”.

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by iknowtrash

Diapers: Why the Meat is So Tender

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After three months of looking in waste bins in northern Europe, I traveled to Mexico in Jan 2009.  Academically, I wanted to juxtapose waste management in developing countries with the systems I had seen in Europe. Recreationally, I wanted to get some sun and learn how to kite-board.

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by The Green Groove

Xerox Invents Erasable Paper to Reduce Waste!

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Find out how Xerox is going green with reusable paper!

Let’s face the facts: no matter how much we try to recycle or cut down on our paper use, we consume paper every day. Whether it’s to get the daily memo at work, or to write down our grocery list, we use paper like it’s nobody’s business!

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by iknowtrash

Love Food, Hate Waste

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One third of the food we buy gets thrown away.





We all know that the best way to manage waste is to not create it in the first place. An interesting study by WRAP in April 2008 found that 1/3 of the food we buy gets thrown away. These foods—including lots of baked goods and vegetables—could have been eaten if managed properly.

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by Joe Laur

Nuclear Dawn: Saving the World From - WITH - Radioactive Waste

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Nuclear Waste - “hot rods” of spent uranium in cooling ponds all around the world, radioactive for a million years, raw material waiting for terrorist dirty bombs, a terrifying constant danger for present and future generations.

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Bad, right? Well maybe not. Maybe….good. Seems there’s technology afoot that can recycle radioactive resources into clean carbon free energy, all while reducing the nuclear threat.

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by Joe Laur

State of Our World, State of our Resources, Our State of Mind

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Where you can do the most good Conserving, Recycling, Reusing

As the calendar page flips over on January 1st, we enter a new year, and a new decade. Goodbye to the “aughts”, hello to the “teens”! What will our “teen years” bring us on the resources front? What’s the state of our resources and how can we resolve to make the most of them?


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by iknowtrash

Pay As You Throw in Belgium

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The town of Ghent, Belgium has a data-intensive system for waste collection whereby all roll carts are outfitted with radio tags ( Share


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