A Simple Way to Reduce Landfills

The City of Brotherly Love has devised something to help eliminate annoying residential litter left on private property throughout the country.

The “Circular Non-Delivery” Decal(http://webapps.phila.gov/li/UpdDocs/No_handbills.pdf) is licensed through Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to stop the delivery of non-subscription circulars. According to the order form for this inventive litter disqualifier, by filling out and submitting [...]

Biodiesel with Your Turkey?

In a somewhat whimsical and innovative move, San Francisco is encouraging Thanksgiving feasters to recycle Thanksgiving turkey drippings by putting it into jars and taking them to local supermarkets like Costco and Whole Foods stores. These will then be collected and processed into biodiesel and methane to fuel city vehicles and create electricity.

San Francisco – [...]

Wind and Solar Power Hit Times Square

New York’s Times Square will soon see its first alternative energy billboard.
Ricoh Americans Corp., the office equipment and document storage company, will convert it’s 126 foot wide and 47 foot high electronic sign on the corner of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue to wind and solar power.
The billboard will be fitted with 16 wind turbines [...]

Environmentalists and Congress see a Ray of Light

With President Bush creating a legacy of environmental devastation that would endure for years, a ray of sunshine has appeared.
A little-remembered law from Clinton’s administration would allow Congressional Democrats to reverse any of the current or last minute energy and environmental regulations Bush signs off on up until the final moments of his presidency.
The Congressional [...]

Greening a City Part 3

San Jose’s (California) Green Initiative has taken being green to an amazing level.

Striving to be America’s clean tech capital, they’re aggressively recruiting a green collar work force. In August, Underwriters Labs opened their solar certification and testing facility in San Jose. They’ve since announced expansion plans to expand.
In September, Tesla Motors moved their headquarters there, [...]

Greening a City Part 2

San Jose – the largest city in northern California – adopted its Green Initiative Plan in 2007. This ten point, 15-year program embraces three key elements – clean technology, sustainability & green mobility.
The Plan’s Goals are:

Create 25,000 clean tech jobs, becoming the “World Center of Clean Tech Innovation”
Reduce individual energy use by 50 percent
Have 100% of electrical power [...]

Technology that Helps Reduce Landfills

Traditionally, landfills receive a plethora of materials that could be recycled, if only there were resources available to assist in this.
Today, Novelis Corp. and PRFection Engineering are partnering to jointly offer technology to landfills and transfer stations to help recover more recyclable materials.
This technology will focus primarily on recovering aluminum cans and steel, though it [...]

Greening A City Creates Economic Rewards

San Jose, California is a town with a strong history of innovation and environmental leadership. After 2001’s infamous dot.com bust, the city experienced a severe economic downturn. Since then, they’ve essentially re-invented themselves, uniquely marrying their economic development with bold environmental programs.
They have created programs and policies they hope will be emulated world-wide.
“If we’re going [...]

No Oil Drilling Required

The past 10 months have seen Americans driving 78 billion miles less than this time a year ago. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced this amazing statistic, based on federal data released in August.

This was the largest ever year-to-year decline, with August’s 15 billion miles, or 5.6 percent less, being the largest decline in [...]

A Spray-on Solar Cell? Part 2

With solar cells increasingly in demand and volatile gas prices, along with world concerns over global warming, this breakthrough in solar technology shows great potential.

Traditional solar cells are made from silicon, a petroleum-based product. These tiny photovoltaics are created from organic polymers with the same properties as silicon. Its main components are carbon and hydrogen, [...]