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Green carpet treatment
MLB, NRDC, and Chevy partner for 'greenest' All-Star Game |
Sara Barz |
15 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Tonight's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in New York should be the 'greenest' MLB event ever, according to Reuters. In partnership with Chevy and NRDC, MLB incorporated a number of 'green' initiatives into tonight's game: Athletes will be transported to and from Yankee Stadium in FlexFuel Chevy Silverados, post-consumer recycled waste content and bio-based materials will be included in paper products, and NRDC green teams will roam the stands of Yankee Stadium encour ... |
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| Topics: green living, recycling, sports, TV (all these topics) |
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Home Depot Improvement
Home Depot will collect CFLs for recycling |
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24 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:10 AM on 24 Jun 2008 Home Depot announced Tuesday that it will collect compact fluorescent light bulbs and send them off to be recycled. The home-improvement behemoth hopes the new program will keep the bulbs, which contain a small amount of mercury, out of household trash and recycling bins. IKEA also collects CFLs for recycling but doesn't have the market saturation of Home Depot; more than three-quarters of U.S. ho ... |
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| Topics: business, energy efficiency, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, mercury, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Belt Experience
On car seat recycling |
Umbra Fisk |
23 Jun 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, What do you recommend for child car seat disposal or, better yet, recycling? Near as I can tell, options include giving them away to someone who needs them (a pretty discouraged practice) or sending them to Oregon or Colorado where a couple of renegade recycling programs are working to resolve this huge issue. I am about to become a parent, and we just bought a new car seat (bad, I know). I'd love to know if you have any ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, parenting, recycling (all these topics) |
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Bye, Buy Burden
Best Buy tests free e-waste recycling program to ease its eco-impact |
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02 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:40 AM on 02 Jun 2008 Electronics retailer Best Buy announced on Monday that it's testing a free electronic-waste recycling program in 117 of its stores in the Baltimore, Minneapolis, and San Francisco areas, plus a few other select stores in the East and Midwest. Customers can bring in up to two e-waste items per day for free recycling, including TVs, computers, video-game consoles, VCRs, and the li ... |
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| Topics: business, e-waste, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Plastic makes a comeback
Recycled plastic products gain ground |
Tia Ghose |
22 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The New York Times has an interesting article up about recycled plastic products. They're profiling a company called Recycline, which makes those bright green recycled plastic cutting boards, strawberry red colanders, and even toothbrushes. According to the article: Recycline's products, sold under the Preserve brand, make new products out of things that would otherwise be likely to end up in landfills. The company uses mostly recycled polypropylene, much of it from ... |
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| Topics: green living, greenish companies, innovation, recycling (all these topics) |
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Winning: The Poo
Recycling sewer water into drinking water growing more popular |
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15 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:39 AM on 15 May 2008 Cities and counties across the United States have increasingly been turning to recycled sewer water as one way to meet growing drinking-water demand. Recycling sewer water, or turning toilet water into drinking water via purification, has often repulsed opponents due to the high costs of treatment and the drinking-former-toilet-water gag factor. However, despite sometimes vocal oppo ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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BCause I Told You So
Eco-parents unimpressed by 'green' Barbie accessories |
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12 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 May 2008 Barbie BCause, toymaker Mattel's attempt to appeal to the green-minded tyke, has turned out to be not so popular with green-minded parents. The line of patchwork-y Barbie accessories made from cast-off fabric has inspired a blogging backlash. "The eco-conscious young girls I know of steer clear of Barbie," wrote Jennifer Lance on blog Eco Child's Play. "Truly green families ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, green products, greenwashing, news, parenting, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Mille grazie!
Should we take Italian nuclear waste? |
Joseph Romm |
07 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| So an industry CEO tells E&E News that nuclear is the only non-carbon baseload power (not!) and that therefore nuclear is our only future and since the United States does such a great job of dealing with low-level radioactive waste, we should become the world's repository. That would be the logic of one Steve Creamer, CEO of EnergySolutions, 'a full-service nuclear fuel cycle company' (in contrast to all of those 'partial-service nuclear fuel cycle companies,' so ... |
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| Topics: energy, insanity, Italy, nuclear power, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Quit recycling
Celebrate Earth Day by ditching annoying green clichés |
Ashley Braun |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I'm all about the three R's that have been the standby of every Earth Day since 1970: reduce, reuse, recycle. Got it. Even so, this Earth Day, I'm beseeching the world to do the unthinkable: stop recycling ... those annoying green clichés, that is. I think it's gee-golly-swell that environmental issues have started gaining such mainstream momentum recently, but if I read, see, or hear another overly trite use of 'It is/is not easy being green!' or 'An Inconvenient X, ... |
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| Topics: funnies, green living, holiday, messaging, recycling (all these topics) |
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A REDtime story
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Sean Casten |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Recycled Energy Development is in The Atlantic this month, as a part of a larger story by Lisa Margonelli about the potential for waste energy recycling at U.S. industrials. |
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| Topics: greening biz operations, shameless self-promotion, energy, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Paint by number
Seattle artist illustrates statistics on waste, health, and consumption |
Adam Browning |
18 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A graphic -- very graphic -- look at the numbers that define America. |
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| Topics: air travel, art, deforestation, e-waste, green living, health, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Discarded Ken Not Included
New Mattel line lets you wear Barbie's discards |
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02 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:34 PM on 02 Apr 2008 We are not making this up: Mattel is planning a new line of accessories made from "excess fabric and trimmings from other Barbie doll fashions and products which would otherwise be discarded." The "playful and on-trend" Barbie BCause collection -- including handbags, hats, pillows, and diaries "each featuring its own unique variations and kitschy patchwork details ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, green products, insanity, news, parenting, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Garbage, Man
On trash bags |
Umbra Fisk |
26 Mar 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am attempting to wean myself off plastic bags. I am also aware of the environmental impact of brown paper bags. So we are OK with cloth grocery bags, but can you suggest an alternative that can be used as a trash can liner (that's economical)? Lisa Columbus, Ga. Dearest Lisa, Plastic trash bags ... a Frequently Asked Question that I have never answered. Have I been saving this succulent trash bag question for a special day? No, ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Nasty Namaste
On toxic yoga mats |
Umbra Fisk |
24 Mar 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I own a yoga studio and our mats are wearing out and in need of replacement. What's the best alternative for buying new mats? And if I do get new mats, what's the best option for disposing of the old ones: donate to one of the many organizations that provide yoga for people that can't afford the usual yoga studio rates? Or spare them the toxins and send the mats to the landfill, or my gosh are they possibly recyclable? Help! ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, green products, recycling, sports, toxics (all these topics) |
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Ash Ask
On burning paper |
Umbra Fisk |
19 Mar 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, We heat our house primarily by wood, in an efficient, EPA-rated woodstove. My question is this: We recycle all of our paper, paperboard, cardboard, etc., but would it be better to burn it? As it is, we drive it to the recycle center, they ship it off somewhere, it is then processed, then shipped back out as a product. If we burn it, we get some heat, and ashes to spread on our garden. Which is better for paper -- recycling or burning ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, recycling, toxics (all these topics) |
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If Only We Could Afford to Live There
San Francisco gets even greener |
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07 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:09 PM on 07 Mar 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got jiggy with eco-measures this week. He signed into a law a requirement that the city's taxi fleet be converted to low-emission vehicles by 2011; ordered all city departments to purchase 100 percent recycled paper and reduce overall paper use by 20 percent by 2010; and announced his support for a tidal-energy project in the San Francisco Bay, despite a recent ... |
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| Topics: energy, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, recycling, San Francisco, wave and tidal power (all these topics) |
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Say cheeeeez
Kodak, Wal-Mart partner on photo kiosk recycling |
Katharine Wroth |
29 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Wal-Mart continues on the 'Seriously? They're still doing good stuff?' path with a new partnership with Kodak that will bring recycling to those handy in-store photo kiosks. The printer ribbon, spools, and cartridges recycled annually by the program will weigh about as much as six commercial planes. Which is, even by Wal-Mart standards, big. |
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| Topics: business, green living, recycling, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Très Bien!
French automaker and waste-management biz team up to recycle cars |
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22 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:32 AM on 22 Feb 2008 French automaker Renault has announced that it will team up with waste-management company Sita to develop end-of-life recycling for automobiles. A European Union directive requires new vehicles to be 95 percent recyclable by 2015, as compared to 85 percent now. sources: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Forbes From the Archives It Takes a Village. Protests arise o ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, France, news, recycling (all these topics) |
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Take It Back! No, You Take It Back!
NYC mayor says he'll veto an electronics-recycling bill |
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19 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:42 PM on 19 Feb 2008 The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill last Wednesday that would require electronics manufacturers to take back products for recycling. But on Friday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he'll veto it -- and that if his veto is overridden, he'll choose not to enforce the law. The council estimates that more than 25,000 tons of TVs, computers, cameras, and oth ... |
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| Topics: business, local politics, New York City, news, politics, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Journey to the bottom of the Earth
CBS airs final segment of Antarctica series tonight |
Katy Balatero |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| CBS has been televising a series this week on climate change impacts in Antarctica. Monday's broadcast spotlighted how climate change has affected Adelie penguin populations. The segment last night focused on scientific research in Antarctica and what it might mean for our understanding of global warming (see video below). You can tune in tonight at 6:30 pm EST to find out about waste and recycling issues in our least-inhabited continent. |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, recycling, scientific research, TV, waste, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Denim do-goodery
Recycle your jeans at Aéropostale |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| While hiding from Seattle's rainy grayness yesterday, I happened upon an interesting window display at teeny-bop-shop Aéropostale. In bright green letters, the sign urged passersby to recycle their denim as part of the store's Teens for Jeans campaign. The project aims to give gently used jeans to homeless teens across the country -- and Aéropostale customers who donate a pair get 20 percent off a new pair in return. Unfortunately, yesterday was the last day of the ... |
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| Topics: fashion, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Take the challenge
Slim down with the 'Waste Diet' |
Kristina & Jason Makansi |
05 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| There are people who talk about reducing, reusing, and recycling -- and then there's Maren Engelmohr. Engelmohr, a St. Louis architect with an impressive set of green credentials, her husband, and her two children are embarking on a year-long 'waste diet,' and are challenging you (and me) to do the same:The Waste Diet is a campaign to encourage people to reduce their Household landfill waste. Our household is committing ourselves to not sending any wa ... |
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| Topics: green living, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Quick and Dirty
On paper plates |
Umbra Fisk |
28 Jan 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Maybe you can help settle this dispute between my husband and me. He likes to use paper plates for quick/short meals like toast in the morning, cheese and crackers in the evening, etc. He claims that he's saving energy by not having to wash a dish. (We have a new energy-efficient dishwasher and an on-demand hot water heater.) I say he's wasting paper unnecessarily, and besides, I hate seeing paper plates all over the place. Wh ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, energy at home, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Tastes great, less landfilling
On battling (plastic) bottled-up rage |
Ashley Braun |
23 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| My favorite surprise gift this past Christmas was an aluminum water bottle from my older brother, the family member I'd vote as 'most likely to make fun of me for being an environmentalist.' After all, when I emailed the family my Christmas list with hopes of secondhand books and recycled running gear, he replied saying, 'Please tell me you weren't always this much of a hippie, what the crap is this?' These immortal words preceded his gift of a shiny new aluminum wat ... |
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| Topics: recycling, US EPA, waste (all these topics) |
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Of course we recycle!
Eco-conscious White House may have destroyed evidence |
Katharine Wroth |
16 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Who says the White House ain't green? It's been busily recycling backup tapes of old emails, 'consistent with industry best practices,' and may have destroyed evidence related to the CIA leak in the process. And who knows what else. Gooooo recycling! Yeah! |
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| Topics: politics, recycling, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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