Waste
Solutions & sustainability
Permaculture Future?: Part I
San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law
New numbers prove smart growth reduces CO2, cost-effectively
Investing in durability
If you are planning to withdraw, please tell me where you're going, and send directions. If not, it's time to start thinking about how you and your family or tribe will muddle through the years ahead. One word comes to mind: durability. If that wasn't the first word that came to your mind, I'm not surprised.
Vision 2050: A Sustainable future for Cheshire West and Chester
This Vision for a Sustainable West Cheshire is intended to guide the Cheshire West and Chester Authority (CW&C) in taking decisions about the future of the area. It is centred on the premise that if we are to achieve a truly sustainable community by 2050 the direction of travel set now must be right.
Climate & environment - June 26
Uganda 'at risk' of losing all its forests
Growth of global carbon emissions halved in 2008, say Dutch researchers
The Pacific isn’t the only ocean collecting plastic trash
Waste and recycling - June 21
Recyclable picnic for 3,000 - leaves 1 bin of trash
Did sewage sludge lace the White House veggie garden with lead?
'Humanure' victory: green toilet wins Austin city approval
Biofuels & methane hydrate - June 17
Book Review: Green Algae Strategy
Mining "Ice That Burns"
Human sewage to power thousands of homes
Waste & recycling - June 9
World's poor overwhelmed by rubbish
Converting Garbage into Fuel
Recycling revolution begins in blood and guts
The Top 6 Ways to Convert Poop Into Electricity
Waste and recycling - May 19
The sewage plant carries the sweet smell of valuable phosphorus
Recession leads to big drop in amount of rubbish we are throwing away
Severn Trent sees light at the end of the tunnel for its new revenue plan
Climate & environment - May 14
Researchers predict that 100 million early deaths could be prevented by cutting global emissions by 50% by 2050
Bill McKibben in Australia (audio)
Kurt Cobb: Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future
Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas
Jeffrey Sachs on Taxing Carbon
Review: 'Tar Sands' by Andrew Nikiforuk
If you’ve been following energy news with a discerning eye, then you already know better than to buy into all the hype about the Canadian tar sands...Far from being a panacea for declining supplies of conventional oil, the sands could...leave Alberta resembling “a third-rate golf course in the Sudan”...The quote comes from Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Tar Sands, a powerful, eloquent litany of horrors associated with North America’s frenzied dash toward tar sands bitumen.

