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Pepsi Chooses Company to Recycle its Electronics
The Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) has chosen e-waste recycler Redemtech to collect and recycle the company’s obsolete electronics, with a commitment that none of these products will be landfilled or exported to other countries.
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‘Green’ Clothing Offers More Than Eco AwarenessMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Cheap clothing and electronics have led many consumers to treat those products as disposable items. |
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Fresh Generation of Volunteers Takes Road to Organic Farms
Twenty-somethings across the country are fleeing the cities and suburbs to volunteer on organic farms.
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African ‘wall of trees’ gets underway
Three years after it was first proposed, preparations for an African 'wall of trees' to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting underway.
The 'Great Green Wall' will involve several stretches of trees from Mauritania in the west to Djibouti in the east, to protect the semi-arid savannah region of the Sahel — and its agricultural land — from desertification.
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LA City Committee Supports Plastic Bag Fee, Foam Container Ban
Los Angeles is considering a plan that would reduce plastic bag use by retailers and ban foam containers at city facilities, reports the Associated Press.
The city council’s energy and environment committee unanimously supported Tuesday a plan to ban the use of plastic bags at all supermarkets and retail stores, unless the state passes a bill which would impose a $.25 fee for each plastic bag.
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China Watch: Plastic Bag Ban Trumps Market and Consumer Efforts
China's recent plastic bag ban has been immediately accepted by consumers. In a country where billions of plastic bags are used each day, the government's top-down policy move will likely benefit the country's environment and energy security well before market forces or consumer-led efforts are able to achieve similar impact.
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Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore EvergladesClewiston, Fla. - In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation. |
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Vegan farming takes organic to next levelALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors, who tilled the same soil centuries before. |
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Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland
The Bush administration on Friday proposed keeping potentially oil-rich wetlands in Arctic Alaska off-limits to drilling because of their ecological sensitivity, a reversal of its earlier plan.
The Bureau of Land Management proposed a 10-year leasing moratorium for 430,000 acres of wetlands north and east of vast Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Environmentalists and local groups hailed the decision.
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Architects’ Home and Office is Less Than Eight Feet WideAntwerp, Belgium - So often the space between buildings is just wasted, a source of heat loss and little else. |
evironmental news headlines
- Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
- Pepsi Chooses Company to Recycle its Electronics
- Spaghetti-Thin Snake Is World’s Smallest
- Brazil launches international fund to preserve Amazon
- Bangladesh landmass ‘is growing’
- Paying To Save Tropical Forests Could Be A Way To Reduce Global Carbon Emissions
- Boost for China panda population
- Microloans Pay Off for Planet, Investors
- NYC speeds transformation of yellow cabs to green
- ‘Green’ Clothing Offers More Than Eco Awareness
- High-Performance, Low-Pollution: German Cars Go Green
- Fishing ban brings seas to life
- MIT Researchers Making Dyed Glass Solar Windows Work
- Whale-Watching Report: Whales More Valuable Alive Than Dead
- Fresh Generation of Volunteers Takes Road to Organic Farms
- UN opens first zero emission community power centre in rural Kenya
- African ‘wall of trees’ gets underway
- G8 vows to halve greenhouse gases
- GM to build world’s biggest rooftop solar station: report
- Ferrari to slash sports cars’ carbon emissions: president
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