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 [...]