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Innoventor Recycles Pig Waste for Road-Paving & Roofing Products
Innoventor, a St. Louis-based design-build firm, using a grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, has engineered a device that recycles pig waste for durable road paving and roofing products.
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California and Massachusetts Most Efficient States
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently published its 2010 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. California and Massachusetts continue to lead the way in investing in energy efficiency.
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Parking Spot Charges Electric Car
With electric vehicles generating a lot of buzz, companies are hard at work on electric charging stations. While charging your vehicle while you run errands might seem the stuff of science fiction, the future may be closer than we think.
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Sustainability News from Wal-Mart
Walmart has announced a series of new goals at a Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting in Bentonville, AR that are intended to overhaul the global food supply chain.
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Blog Action Day 2010 – Water
This is a good day to spread the word that not everybody in the world enjoys water the way we do in the United States. In fact, almost 1 billion people living on this planet go without enough water - water that is potable and can sustain healthy living.
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Stunning Star Wars Urban Landscape Photographs
French photographer Cédric Delsaux started out taking photos of what he calls "the peripheral zones" of modern cities - wastelands, empty deserts, scrapyards. Yet something was missing - and then he had the idea of placing characters from Star...
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Christopher Hitchens Dead At 62
Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed...
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Jonathan Chait: Ron Paul Is A Huge Racist
With Ron Paul ascending in Iowa, winning the hearts of independents, and even the endorsement of Andrew Sullivan, it’s worth pointing something out: Ron Paul is not a kindly old libertarian who just wants everybody to be free. He’s...
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Act of Valor (2012)
Act of Valor is an upcoming 2012 American war film directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, and written by Kurt Johnstad. It stars Alex Veadov, Rosalyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera and actual active duty U.S. Navy SEALs....
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Centurion (2010) ****
Centurion is a 2010 British action thriller film directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the massacre of the Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the second century CE. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko and Dominic West. Enjoyed...
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Wal-Mart Canada Launches Polystyrene Recycling Program
Wal-Mart Canada recently announced its launch of a nationwide polystyrene recycling program at eight of its Canadian stores. Grace Canada, a leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial products for the manufacture of plastics and building materials, will collected used polystyrene (Styrofoam) packaging from Wal-Mart and reusing it to produce fire-resistant commercial insulation.
“As we work with [...]
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Texas Begins Statewide Computer Recycling Program
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently launched a new site for a statewide computer recycling program.
“The goal of the program is to give Texans an easy way to recycle the used computer equipment they have been storing in their closets and garages for years,” said Mark Vickery, executive director TCEQ. “The most effective [...]
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Super Bowl Program to Reuse Books, Sports Equipment
For the 10th consecutive year, the National Football League will be collecting and donating books and sports equipment to schools in the Super Bowl’s host city, Tampa Bay, Fla., next February.
The program, called “Super Kids-Super Sharing,” will begin collecting at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers home game on November 30. Tampa schools will also be collecting [...]
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Boston Ordinance Mandates Waste Haulers to Recycle
Yesterday, the Boston City Council passed a measure to enforce mandatory recycling for all waste haulers operating in the city. If commercial waste haulers do not start offering recycling, they could stand to lose their licenses.
“If there’s an area that we can improve in, it would be recycling,” said Michael P. Ross, who drafted the [...]
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New California Law Provides Free Mercury Thermostat Recycling
The California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) recently announced a new law that will provide free mercury thermostat recycling to consumers. The Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008 was co-sponsored by CPSC and Sierra Club California.
The law is designed to protect the health of California residents. The law will take effect July 1, 2009, when heating [...]