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Once an Urban Landfill, Now a Rowing Paradise
Near the junction of the New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 80, not far from the conga line of traffic grinding toward New York City,...
New York City has Solar, Wind Power Plans for Landfill Site
A New York City site once known for the size of its garbage heaps will be home to alternative energy sources that could power...
Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Can Devour Plastic in Landfills
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale...
New Technology Creates Solar-Powered Landfills
Landfills are a constant reminder of the waste we produce, but a new innovation could throw out the notion of a “dump” by turning...
Rags 2 Riches Lifts Women from Filipino Landfill into High Fashion Trade
Four years ago, in one of the Philippines' largest dumpsites and home to 12,000 families, women searched through garbage for fabric scraps to weave...
U.S. Military Transforms Landfill Gas into Renewable Energy
America has found an unlikely leader into a sustainable new future, and that’s the U.S. military. From solar power to wind turbines, high efficiency...
GE Teams Up With EPA to Keep Appliances Out of Landfills
It's bad enough to fill up landfills with recyclable food packaging, but it's even worse when people start piling on the remains of hulking...
Trash To Treasure: Toilets in Landfills Become Artful Tiles
You wouldn't expect a landfill to be a place where you could turn something (with a high yuck factor) into a thing of beauty....
Clean Power Projects Turn Landfills Into Electricity Makers
Landfills, with the tendency to belch noxious greenhouse gases, have long gotten a bad rap from environmentalists. But now several clean-power technology companies are...
Top CNN Heroes 2009: Boys Cart Portable Schoolroom to Reach Landfill Kids
Efren Peñaflorida grew up in a Filipino slum near the city dump, but vowed to better his life through education. In 1999, while...
NH University Uses Landfill Gas to Power Green Graduation
The University of New Hampshire is the first in the nation to receive most of its heat and electricity from landfill gas. It showcased...
Bicycle Recyclers Empower NYC Youth, Lighten Landfills
Recycle-a-Bike was founded in 1999 with a straightforward mandate: Repair abused, remaindered, broken, or worn bikes and funnel them back to consumers. But...
Silicon Valley to Invest Heavily in Emerging Green Technology that Cleans Air, Water and Landfills
Venture Capitalists are poised to invest hundreds of millions in the emerging "green technologies" and believe they could become as lucrative as anything that...
Insect Farm Hatches Plan for Greener Animal Feed for Chickens and Pigs
There's been a lot of talk in the media over the last few years about insect protein, whether used in fake beef, protein bars,...
Coffee Grounds Show Potential to Clean Up Common Water Contamination from Agriculture
Coffee grounds have been tested in a laboratory setting for their potential use as a cleanup agent of common agricultural runoff, suggesting that along...
UK Restaurant is Letting People Pay-as-They-Can While Rescuing Tons of Food
A restaurant in England has been able to employ 22 full and part-time staff serving food diverted from landfills to people on a "pay-as-you-can"...
Microsoft Campus Set to Use Geothermal Energy to Heat/Cool Millions of Sq Ft. of Office Space
It's been four years now, but Microsoft's Redmond campus modernization is almost finished. The massive 72-acre rebuild includes dozens of hopefully planet-saving designs and...
Shape-Shifting Fiber Produces Fabrics That Shrink or Expand in Real-Time and Fit into Existing Manufacturing
Imagine if the same forces that shrink your wool sweater when you forget what water temp to wash it at could be used at...
Most Americans Say the BEST Part of the Super Bowl is Not the Actual Game
According to an American survey of 2,000 Super Bowl watchers, 40% look forward to attending or hosting a party for the big game, rather...
Simple Scanner the Size of a Coffee Grinder Will Tell You Exactly How Long Fruit and Veggies Will Last
A wise balding man once said, "fruit's a gamble," but what if producers and retailers had a way of knowing the odds before the...