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Tennessee Webbing Products using recycled seat belts for purses

While more businesses jump on the green bandwagon with eco-friendly products, the Dew brothers have been recycling for more than 20 years.

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Waste Management to Distribute Solar Powered Trash Compactors

WIS TV, Sat June 13, 2009, comments (0)
Waste Management has become the exclusive waste services distributor of BigBelly Solar's solar-powered trash compactors, which can reduce the amount of trash pick-ups and reduce waste-related costs.

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Institute compost powers conversion of USDA’s new organic People’s Garden along National

Rodale Institute, Thu June 04, 2009, comments (0)
About the time that Chemical Ag spokespeople were chiding Michelle Obama for promoting home-grown organic food with her White House garden, compost from the Rodale Institute farm was landing on a new organic garden right in front of U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.

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US state mows with goats to go gently on environment

Seed Daily, Mon June 01, 2009, comments (0)
Officials in the eastern US state of Maryland have come up with an innovative, cost-saving way to protect the environment: they use goats to mow the grass.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment Joins Culver City for Compost Pilot Program

GreenBiz, Sat May 30, 2009, comments (0)
The Puente Hills landfill in Los Angeles County is expected to reach capacity and close in 2013, which will force the county to send its waste outside the region by rail.

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Obama Orders One-Year Moratorium on Road-Building in Forests

Flathead Beacon, Fri May 29, 2009, comments (0)
The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests.

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Owls replace pesticides in Israel

BBC News, Wed May 27, 2009, comments (0)
Owls and kestrels are being employed as agricultural pest controllers in the Middle East.

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Don’t Throw That Chip Bag Away! Give It Back to Frito-Lay, and Let Terracycle Turn It Into Fashion

Fact Company, Tue May 19, 2009, comments (0)
Instead of tossing that bag of Doritos in the trash, consider sending it back to Frito-Lay ... It might just get turned into a tote bag.

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Singapore’s Energy Efficient Green Heart Center

INhabitat, Fri May 15, 2009, comments (0)
The very heart of Singapore beats green, thanks to the new design for the National Heart Center by multinational firm Broadway Malyan.

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Environmental campaign blocks palm oil project in Cote d’ Ivoire wetland

mongabay.com, Fri May 01, 2009, comments (0)
Environmentalists have thwarted plans to establish an oil palm plantation in the Tanoe forest wetlands of southern Cote d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast), reports AFP.

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