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Wal-Mart Goal: Selling 100 Million Energy Efficient Light Bulbs
In the face of global warming peril and consumers facing higher energy costs, the world's leading retailer yesterday announced an ambitious campaign to sell...
City Uses Kitchen Grease to Power Waste Treatment Plant
The City of Millbrae, California, celebrated the completion of a treatment plant that will use restaurant kitchen grease as a renewable power source to...
Honeywell to Spend $451M Cleaning Lake in NY
The giant corporation Honeywell Inc. will spend $451 million to help clean New York's Onondaga Lake under the "Polluter Pays" principle held by federal...
Marriott Hotel Composting 1 Million Pounds Annually in SF
Turning food waste...into wine? In a roundabout way, that is what is happening to the composted food scraps and other items generated at the...
GM Unveils New, Green Assembly Plant
AP reports on the new GM auto plant in Michigan unveiled as the "most environmentally-friendly auto plant" in the world. It implements lots of...
Honda to Build Zero Waste Plant in Indiana
Honda just announced the construction of a $550 million automobile plant in Decatur County, Indiana, to build fuel-efficient vehicles and employ 2,000 Hoosiers. ...
US Senate Passes DoD Renewable Energy Amendment
The US Defense Department has made great strides toward increasing its usage of renewable energy sources. In 2005, DOD generated over 8% of its...
New Technology Turns Garbage Into Gold
(Reprint of a GNN story from 2003; in preparation for a followup article soon)
IMAGINE. . . Imagine a machine that can turn almost...
Plastic Bio Bottle is Composted into Plant Food
Belu Natural Mineral Water last week launched the UK’s first biodegradable and compostable plastic bottle. The revolutionary plastic bottle is made from corn instead...
Iowa Company Making Gasoline Obsolete
A former director of engineering at Ford Motor Company says there is no need to wait for clean power. His Hydrogen Engine Center ...
195 Miles Per Gallon, Zero to 60 in Four Seconds… The Electric Supercar is Here
When you think of an electric car, you may imagine a vehicle that provides no power, no safety, no range, and taking forever to...
Plastic Shopping Bags Made of Corn and Biodegradable
With the new reality of $70 (US) crude oil, the plastics industries are turning to corn and fast-growing switchgrass to manufacture everything from carpet...
G is for Gardening
EDITOR'S BLOG
Instead of revitalizing my readers today with more good news -- and I have a pile of stories waiting to be written-up and...
Recycle Your Cell Phone and Ink Cartridges
EARTH DAY SPECIAL — TAKE ACTION — Check out these two great Earth Day ideas brought to our attention by World Changing.com:
The Recycle My Cell Phone...
Republicans and Democrats Moving in Tandem Against Greenhouse Gases in California
In California, where one-eighth of Americans reside, we have a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature moving in the same direction — and with broad...
Pakistan Tackles Child Labor Horrors
The International Labour Organisation and Pakistan's Ministry of Labour have launched a program they say is aimed at eliminating the dangerous and degrading practice...
Green Australians Reusing 90% of Food Waste
A report by the Australian Food and Grocery Council revealed that about 90% of waste and by-products from the food and grocery manufacturers surveyed...
Defective Tires Recycled
The 6.5 million tires recalled by Bridgestone/ Firestone from Ford Explorers in August, 2000 are being put to good use by Waste Management, Inc.
The...
Help Others and Recycle at the Same Time
Here are some ways you can recycle worn out items instead of sending them to the landfill -- items like shoes, glasses, greeting cards,...