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• Taxpayers get hosed at Coney Island

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 583
  From Curbed : Sitt spent just over $90 million acquiring the Coney land in 2005, and for years has halfheartedly pursued his own redevelopment plan while evicting businesses and demanding upwards of $140 million from the city for the 10.5 acres Bloomberg wanted. Nastiness has reigned on both sides, and in the end ...
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• Dear Mr Rudd: The Opposite Of Sceptical Is Gullible

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 560
  By Andrew Bolt TonyfromOz prefaces ….. In Prime Minister Rudd’s speech, he singled out Andrew specifically, with three others as those people he terms as the main ‘offenders’, so it would seem that Andrew’s stance on this subject, gaining widespread coverage across Australia, is striking a nerve. ...
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• The cost of nuclear doesnt add up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Government plans to fast-track major projects pose a real threat to their action plan on global warming ( UKs nuclear future is mapped out as race to tackle climate change hots up , 10 November). Reports on the governments national policy statements have predictably focussed on the controversial issue of new nuclear ...
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• Thank You for Vacationing in North Dakota

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 422
  Hazardous Waste Site Map: Posted in Life Tagged: America the Beautiful, Hazardous Waste, Toxic waste, Waste not want not
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• China To Spend CNY1 Billion To Protect Rural Environment

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 431
  Li Yuan, the deputy director of the Ecological Division of Chinas Ministry of Environmental Protection, has disclosed to local media that China will arrange a CNY1 billion special fund this year for environment protection and pollution control in the rural areas of the country.At the 2009 China Environmental NGOs ...
  13 hours ago

• Too Much Space Junk Makes Astronauts Sleep in Escape Pods

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Photo credit: NASA Creating trash seems to be a top skill among humans, even in space. The massive amounts of space debris has become increasingly a cause for concern, even prompting DARPA to ask everyone for their ideas on how to decrease whats out there orbiting around Earth. But now its also an increasing ...
  15 hours ago

• Meddling Is What Rewards Congressmen With Campaign Funds

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 431
  Single issue organizations are prone to making an effort to tie major news items to their agenda in order to piggy-back on the big issues of the day and gain publicity.  I can hardly fault them for it, but when they use faulty logic in an effort to restrict freedoms , I must call them out. Members of Congress who ...
  16 hours ago

• Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day 11/11: BIN/WSII, NCS...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  IESI-BFC Ltd. (NYSE: BIN) and Waste Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSII) today announced that their respective boards of directors have each approved a definitive merger agreement that establishes North Americas third largest solid waste management company with expected pro forma annual revenues of nearly $1.5 billion. The ...
  17 hours ago

• Teignbridge raises recycling rate for the fifth year running

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Recycling news from Teignbridge Council is that the district has increased the amount of waste it recycles for the fifth year running, with a new rate of 57 per cent placing it sixth in the national top-ten recyclers, while collection costs were the lowest in Devon. The new rate for the year 2008/09 was ...
  21 hours ago

• Electronic Waste Needs to Go Green

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Americans love their consumer electronics, but what happens to all the gadgets when their useful life is over? Despite being one of the largest generators of “e-waste” in the world, the U.S. has no federal policies on recycling electronic waste or handling hazardous materials from technological trash. It’s ...
  22 hours ago

• YKK Group’s Recycling Rate Hits Nearly 98%

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  The YKK Group, based in Japan, is targeting zero emissions at all its global production sites by recycling, according to its Social and Environmental Report 2009. The group’s recycling rate increased to 97.9 percent in fiscal year (FY) 2008, up from 97.6 percent in FY 2007. In fiscal 2005, the company achieved zero ...
  22 hours ago

• Mobile Phone Waste Poses Threat to Environment

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 141
  Environmental issues have been at the forefront of discussion lately as the world gears up for the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.  For years people have known about the benefits of recycling things like paper, plastic, glass, and metal but what many didn’t know is that one of the ...
  23 hours ago

• Midway – message from the gyre

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 425
  One of my favourite photographers, Chris Jordan , has a new project: Midway – message from the gyre :
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• Sesame Street Gets a Real Street

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday the gang got their own corner in New York City! Now the corner of 64th and Broadway reads 123 Sesame Street and 11/10 is officially Sesame Street Day. This makes me happy for so many reasons but the main one is that Sesame Street’s new corner is right by my ...
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• America Recycles Day - November 15th

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  Recommit to recycling for the health of the planet PHILADELPHIA - - Once a year the U.S. EPA officially  reminds everyone that recycling plays a dramatic role in reducing pollution. This year American Recycles Day is celebrated on Sunday, November 15. It’s a great day to recommit to recycling - an ...
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• Number of cars to be scrapped in Europe

  
  Random graphic of the day: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library — Authority: 127
  Scrapped cars or “end-of life vehicles” are not collectedas bulky waste, but they too pose problems because of their size and disparate components. Given car production trends this is an issue that demands serious consideration.
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• Two Bills Introduced to Stop Cruise Ship Sewage Dumping

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Cruise ships are often referred to as “floating cities” and for good reason. Large cruise ships can be the equivalent of small cities in terms of how much waste they produce. Last month, I blogged about the Cruise Ship Environmental Report Card , recently released by Friends of the Earth . Take for example ...
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• LGs TV Recycling Program: Hip or Hype?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  A whole lot of these, getting recycled. Photo via freakapotimus Switching over to digital TVs has caused a lot of e-waste. Last week we pointed out how it has been responsible for a 70% rise in tossed televisions in the UK , and similar concerns abound here in the US as we switched to digital. But its not just ...
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• Thinking Outside the Box on Packaging Design

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 626
  Although many people think of packaging -- especially wasteful packaging -- as an afterthought, as more and more environmental regulations begin to address packagings impacts, manufacturers are starting to design their packages with more care than products themselves.
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