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Let Buildings Rise Again and Again: Construction Waste as a Resource
It saves money and energy to reuse materials and structures.
Diapers: Why the Meat is So Tender
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.
Xerox Invents Erasable Paper to Reduce Waste!
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!
Love Food, Hate Waste
One third of the food we buy gets thrown away.
Nuclear Dawn: Saving the World From - WITH - Radioactive Waste
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.
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.
State of Our World, State of our Resources, Our State of Mind
Where you can do the most good Conserving, Recycling, Reusing
Pay As You Throw in Belgium
The town of Ghent, Belgium has a data-intensive system for waste collection whereby all roll carts are outfitted with radio tags ( Share
You are Deputized!
I was watching a TV commercial the other evening that was touting a sports bar that claimed to have 100 TV screens. The next morning I was walking by a whole row of taxis with idling engines sending fumes into the air. And that evening I listened to my nephew wash dishes which seemed to be an exercise in using as much water as possible to prepare dishes to go into a dishwasher. Relatively cheap energy and a willingness to sacrifice the future for present gratification have turned us into a country of wasters. |
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