by Josh Turchin | Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Posted on July 21, 2012 – 11:12 by Susan DeFreitas, EarthTechling If you ever had a tree house as a kid, or saw The Return of the Jedi, or both, chances are, you’ve dreamed of a tree house village. Erica and Mateo Hogan did, and in 2005 — with the help of some...
by Josh Turchin | Jun 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Stephen Messenger Living / Culture June 4, 2012 NBC News/Screen capture When Sam Klein was still in kindergarten, he became fascinated with the things we throw away. Every week, on trash-collection day, the curious youngster would wait outside his house in St. Louis...
by Josh Turchin | May 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
A group of California grade school students wants Crayola to start a recycling program for spent plastic markers, but the company doesn’t appear ready to make such a move. About 40 students at Sun Valley elementary school in San Rafael, Calif., have been...
by Josh Turchin | May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Massachusetts may ban big institutions from discarding food in the trash in a bid to cut down on the methane from landfills. David Biello reports | Sunday, May 13, 2012 | 4 When you don’t clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at...
by Josh Turchin | May 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling California’s beverage container recycling rate stayed essentially flat last year, but still reached gaudy heights according to a recently-released report by the state’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery...
by Josh Turchin | May 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Trek Bicycle has announced that it has recycled over 700,000 pounds of carbon fiber, a material used to make high-end bikes, as well as other purposes, since launching a pilot program last year. The Waterloo, Wisconsin-based bicycle manufacturer launched the pilot...
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