(Josh's editorial in May's Mission Times Courier) Electronics Recycling: What You Should Know - Mission Times Courier.

Josh's article published in the May edition of the Mission Times Courier http://www.missiontimescourier.com/article/Community_News/Eye_On_Community/Electronics_Recycling_What_You_Should_Know/29436

Q1: How many aluminum cans would you need to stack on top of each other to get to the moon? -         A: 3.3 billion (3,362,349,744). Q2: Approximately how much energy does recycling a single plastic bottle save? -         A: Enough to power a 60-watt light bulb for...

"To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem." - Douglas P. Wheeler, EPA Journal,September-October 1990 Let’s take a closer look at the cherry tree: As it grows, it seeks its own regenerative abundance.  But this process is not...

GM Tops Clean Energy Patent List for 2010 By Bart King Share April 1, 2011 - GM registered the most clean energy patents in 2010, pushing Honda out of the top spot for the first time since 2002. 2010 was also a record year for cleantech patents in the US, according to...

Pepsi vs. Coke Continues with 100% Bio-based Bottle By Bart King  Share32 March 15, 2011 - The Coke vs. Pepsi rivalry moved into the environmental arena today, as PepsiCo unveiled its response to Coca-Cola’s much-heralded PlantBottle. Pepsi said its new “green”...

Bic Makes Recycled Pencil From Old Refrigerator By Bart King Share March 31, 2011 - Bic, the French manufacturer of pens and cigarette lighters, is using recycled polystyrene from old refrigerators to produce a new line of sustainable pencils, according to Waste &...

Photo: Victoria González Carman/SeaTurtle.org Trying to get disposable plastics out of your life? Here comes a photo that’ll scare you into stepping up those efforts. Above is a photo of the plastic debris found in a single juvenile sea turtle that was accidentally...

The Consumer Electronics Association estimates $165 billion spent on consumer electronics in 2010. According to Wirefly.org, the average cell phone user replaces his cell phone every 18 months. The EPA reports that over 112,000 computers are discarded every single...

OAKLAND, Calif. - You've heard of turning water into wine. But what can you turn wine into once the bottle is past its prime? Plenty say a trio of thrifty chefs who've been turning dregs into delicious vinegars, marinades, even sorbets. "Any good kitchen — waste not,...

Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon be able to drink their own recycled urine using a new system delivered by NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour which launched Friday. Until now, pee has been dumped overboard, but the new "Water Recovery System" will...

BOCA RATON, FL — The Coca-Cola Company today announced a partnership that will license the beverage giant's plant-based packaging to Heinz for use in its ketchup packaging. The bottle technology, which Coke launched in 2009, uses a plastic sourced from sugarcane waste...

It's Girl Scout cookie season, but Michigan scouts Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva are finding other ways to support the organization’s mission of "building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place" than selling those famous...

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 22, 2011 - 8:15am. Munich - Automaker BMW has launched a new $100 million venture capital investment unit, BMW i Ventures, which will back firms developing mobile and sustainable technologies. The unit's first investment is in...

We've seen efforts focusing to varying extents on each of the “3Rs” of waste management — reduce, reuse and recycle — but we couldn't resist mentioning one more that recently caught our eye. It isn't brand new, but California-based Rerip is a site that aims to help...

Excerpted from Cradle to Cradle By William McDonough & Michael Braungart All the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants,...

Four Loko: Its gross, bad for you, and only existed legitimately for about five minutes before turning into its own punchline. Its pretty much the Ke$ha of beverages. But it looks like the caffeinated alcoholic energy drink, whose main 2010 achievements were inspiring...

Kids say the darndest things about the planet | Grist. Ask a bunch of kids a question, you'll never come up short on answers -- incisive, unpredictable and encouragingly earth-friendly. (I asked thousands of kids 24 questions when I was putting together my latest...

USA-Mexico Border Crossing Adopts Wastewater Recycling System. USA-Mexico Border Crossing Adopts Wastewater Recycling System By Leon Kaye | December 20th, 2010 0 Comments Start a conversation about the border that separates the United States and Mexico, and you risk...

A Better Beer Bottle – Ecoscraps. In 1963, the Heineken World Bottle, the“brick that holds beer”, was created after Mr. Heineken visited the Caribbean.  He saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials.  The solution: ...

Pooping out plastic not a painful process BY Ashley Braun 26 OCT 2010 3:57 PM Crap -- it's so versatile! It can heat your house, fertilize your garden, and power the grid. And now creative types have squeezed another use out of this universal human product -- turning...

At Kimberly-Clark, innovation, sustainability meets toilet paper By Larry Dignan | Oct 27, 2010 | 8 Comments SharePrintRecommend1 Kimberly-Clark is innovating on the toilet paper front in an effort to save paper. The USA Today reports that the manufacturer of paper...

Garbage: it's gross, it stinks, and all anyone wants is to be rid of it. For most cities, that means sending thousands of tons of unwanted flotsam and jetsam to landfills every day. But in San Francisco, garbage is treated like a resource that shouldn't be wasted. And...

Google’s clean power ambitions are ramping up. The company has hired Philip Gleckman, former chief scientist at solar thermal startup eSolar, to work on solar tech internally for Google, Green Energy Reporter first reported, and we’ve confirmed with Google. Google’s...

Everybody knows there's no fate worse than being a vegetable. Oh, how those healthy veggies must pine after hungry shoppers as they bypass nutritious stacks of produce en route to snack aisle nirvana. If only vegetables had bright packaging, adrenaline-packed...