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Tennessee Webbing Products using recycled seat belts for pursesWhile 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 CompactorsWaste 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 NationalAbout 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 environmentOfficials 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 ProgramThe 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 ForestsThe 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 IsraelOwls 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 FashionInstead 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 CenterThe 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 wetlandEnvironmentalists have thwarted plans to establish an oil palm plantation in the Tanoe forest wetlands of southern Cote d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast), reports AFP. |
evironmental news headlines
- EPA Proposes New Standards for Large Ships
- New Law Requires Calif. Landfills to Capture Methane
- US House supports emissions bill
- Endangered blue whales returning to Alaska
- Tennessee Webbing Products using recycled seat belts for purses
- Human waste to heat thousands of homes in £4m plan to recycle it into gas
- Thai Navy Launches Sea Turtle Conservation Program
- From the Ashes of ’69, a River Reborn
- Natural cosmetics maker swamped with demand
- The blues are back: Butterfly species reborn 30 years after ‘extinction’
- Solar Collectors Covering 0.3 Percent of the Sahara Could Power All of Europe
- Riders bare all for World Naked Bike Ride
- World’s largest solar tower switches on
- Ambitious global pact on climate change in sight
- Flexible Solar Powered Rooftop Shingles
- Calling All Green Screenwriters: New Forum To Sell Your Stuff
- Waste Management to Distribute Solar Powered Trash Compactors
- Floating wind turbine launched
- Institute compost powers conversion of USDA’s new organic People’s Garden along National
- Ahire, a solar energy village in Maharashtra
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